Not just for geeks: IIT Bhubaneswar teaches students to be entrepreneurs

Sai Kiran, a third year B.Tech student at the School of Electrical Sciences, is clear about why he chose IIT-Bhubaneswar (IIT-BBS), set up in 2008, over the older IITs. “It was the faculty. I wanted to be inspired. I took one look at their profiles and that settled it,” he said.  

Kiran, who is pursuing electronics and communications, was impressed not just with their profiles but with their cutting edge research interests. This tipped the balance in favour of IIT-BBS over his other options - IIT- Kharagpur and IIT-Guwahati. 

The Odisha institute has 130 faculty members, all of them PhDs.