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| Type | Public |
|---|---|
| Established | 2015 |
| Chairman | Sajjan Jindal |
| Director | K.N. Satyanarayana |
Academic staff | 119[1] |
| Students | 1,168[1] |
| Undergraduates | 852[1] |
| Postgraduates | 167[1] |
| 149[1] | |
| Location | Yerpedu – Venkatagiri Road, Yerpedu Post, Tirupati District, Andhra Pradesh. Pincode - 517619. India 13°42′52″N 79°35′43″E / 13.71444°N 79.59528°E |
| Campus | Sub-Urban, 540 acres (220 ha) |
| Language | English |
| Colors | Red and Black |
| Website | www |
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Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati (IIT Tirupati) is an autonomous engineering and technology education institute located in Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh. Initially mentored by IIT Madras (now IIT Tirupati), Tirupati is a 3rd generation IIT is located in Yerpedu. The institute has a size of 539 acres, including a proposed research park. The Foundation stone for IIT Tirupati was laid by the Union Minister Smriti Irani and the then Union Minister and former Vice President of India M.Venkaiah Naidu and the then chief minister of Andhra Pradesh N. Chandrababu Naidu.[2][3][4]
The Director of IIT Madras, Dr. Bhaskar Ramamurthi has been the Mentor Director of IITT since 2016.[5] In 2017, K.N. Satyanarayana was appointed as director for IIT Tirupati. He was re-elected[6] as the director for a second term since 2022.
The institute is planning to construct an 18 acres research park on the campus, which will soon be the largest institute research park in India, overtaking the IIT Madras research park which has a size of 13 acres. IIT Tirupati is the IIT to have the highest gender and faculty-to-student ratio among all the IITs.
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