Mar 13, 2023, 01:10 PM IST
Under the guidance of IIT Bombay, the Ministry of Education (MoE), and the Government of India established IIT Dharwad as an Institution of National Importance in 2016.
The institute, which was built at a cost of over Rs 850 crores, currently provides M.Tech., Ph.D., and inter-disciplinary 5-year BS-MS degrees in addition to 4-year B.Tech. programmes.
In July 2016, IIT Dharwad's transit campus, which is next to the Dharwad Bench of the Karnataka High Court in the Water and Land Management Institute (WALMI), opened for classes.
IIT Dharwad is currently home to 856 students, 73 academic members with more than 400 publications between them, 30 crores of rupees in R&D sponsored projects, and 32 memorandums of understanding.
The campus is reportedly the first smart and environmentally friendly IIT campus in the nation.
The permanent campus of IIT Dharwad was built with a number of important qualities, including energy and water independence, human comfort with sustainability, zero-debris construction, preservation of the nature, and historical origins.