IIT Indore is one among the new IITs. It started from the academic year 2009-10. IIT Indore is an autonomous engineering and technology institute of higher education. It will come up in 525 acre of land at Simrol, 25 km from Indore. Union Human Resources Development Minister Mr. Arjun Singh laid the foundation-stone of the Institute on 17 February 2009. IIT Bombay is currently mentoring IIT Indore. IIT Indore offers a 4-year B. Tech. programme in Computer Science and Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering 120 total seats are available, which are equally distributed across three disciplines. The admission to the course is through the IIT Joint Entrance Examination (JEE). IIT Indore also offers Ph.D. programmes in Engineering (Computer Science, Electrical and Mechanical), Sciences (Chemistry, Physics and Mathematics), and Humanities and Social Sciences (Economics, English and Philosophy).
