All about IITK Editorials and Opinion Pieces Institute Students Should New Programs at IIT Kanpur be Available to Existing Students In the last few months, IIT Kanpur has made its academic programs more flexible. For example, it has discontinued admission to five year BTech MTech dual-degree programs. Now, the students take admission to the BTech program, and in the 3rd year decide whether they want to spend an extra year to get an MTech degree […] Written by Vox Populi March 29, 2014December 23, 2020
All about IITK Institute IITK and its beginnings The act was deemed professional suicide, yet professor Purushottam Kashinath Kelkar accepted the post to become the first director of IIT Kanpur. The beginnings were uncertain, the institute had no campus until 1963 – 4 years after its establishment – classes were initially held at the Harcourt Butler Technological Institute, but Kelkar persevered. He recruited […] Written by Vox Populi March 28, 2014December 23, 2020
