IITH was founded in 2008, among the eight young In...

IITH was founded in 2008, among the eight young Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs).[3] It has 1,155 Undergraduate, 635 Masters and 893 PhD students with 222 full-time faculties.[4]

History Edit
Main article: History of Indian Institutes of Technology
IIT Hyderabad was established by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India under the Institutes of Technology (Amendment) Act, 2011. The Act was passed in the Lok Sabha on 24 March 2011[5] and by the Rajya Sabha on 30 April 2012.[6] It was set up in technical and financial assistance from Government of Japan.

IIT Hyderabad began functioning on 18 August 2008 from a temporary campus in Ordnance Factory Medak, with Prof. U. B. Desai as the founding director. In July 2015, it moved to its 576-acre permanent campus at Kandi, Sangareddy. It is close to the outer ring road[7] and located on NH-65.The IITH campus is on a land area of 576 acres (234 hectares). The campus is designed by Pune-based acclaimed American architect, Prof. Christopher Charles Benninger. This organic campus is divided into clusters of buildings being completed in phases starting in 2011. The campus is one of India's best examples of energy efficient, carbon neutral and sustainable architecture. The design grew out of local weather conditions and utmost care to enhance learning. The graduate and post-graduate programmes are separated, student and teacher housing is divided, and girls and boys hostels are segregated for a pluralistic environment.

The 25 lakh square feet of buildings in Phase 1A; 3 academic blocks and 10 functioning hostel buildings (each with a capacity of 200) were completed in March 2019.[8][9][10]

Hostels Edit
The hostel room is single-sharing (one person-one room). Most students at IIT Hyderabad reside in ten hostels on the campus. Two out of the ten hostel buildings accommodate girl students and women students. Dining facilities are provided in centralised halls. The students are assigned to hostels at the time of admission, where they usually spend their entire stay at the Institute. Students are provided with high speed internet for academic as well as for entertainment purpose.