The Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad (IIT Hyderabad, IITH) is a part of history in the making. IIT Hyderabad is located in its temporary premises in the quiet residential campus of Ordnance Factory Medak (OFMK) at Yeddumailaram (Medak District, Andhra Pradesh), about 45 km from the heart of Hyderabad city. IIT Hyderabad admitted the first batch of 111 B.Tech. students, and started functioning on August 20, 2008. Three departments, CSE, EE & ME were initiated. Cosmopolitan ambience, good connectivity and strong Information Technology (IT) sector is attracting top rankers to the Indian Institute of Technology- Hyderabad (IIT-H) over other IITs in the country, including some of the established and famous ones. It is one of the eight new Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs)[1] established by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India under The Institutes of Technology (Amendment) Act, 2011 which declares these eight IITs as well as the conversion of Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University to IIT.
The permanent campus will be located on the National Highway 9 at Kandi village (near Sangareddy town, in Medak District, Andhra Pradesh). The Secunderabad Railway Station is 60 kms away from the campus and the airport is again 60kms from the campus. The institute was established after Act was passed in the Lok Sabha on 24 March 2011.
IIT Hyderabad has eleven engineering departments, three science departments, one liberal arts (humanities) department, one design department and three new proposed departments :
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Department of Biotechnology
Department of Chemical Engineering
Department of Chemistry
Department of Civil Engineering
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Department of Design
Department of Electrical Engineering
Department of Engineering Science
Department of Fire Engineering
Department of Liberal Arts
Department of Materials Science and Metallurgical Engineering
Department of Mathematics
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Department of Paranormal Sciences
Department of Physics
Department of Psychology