The Indian Institute of Information Technology Allahabad (IIIT-A) was established in 1999, as a center of excellence in Information Technology and Computer Science by Govt. of India. The institute was conferred the "Deemed University" status in the year 2000. The Institute thus became empowered to have a perpetual seal and award degrees subsequent to the conduct of its ownexaminations.

The mission of IIIT, Allahabad is to be a unique and world class nucleating "Apex Center of Excellence" in the area of Information Technology and Allied Sciences, so as to enhance India's Technological strength in IT and for become a pace-setting institution for other similar institutes to be established in the future. IIIT seeks to derive its strength from a linkage with sound Indian traditions of centuries past, and sets out to create knowledge-based resources in regional languages.

The Institute has been conceived with the ambitious objectives of developing professional expertise and skilled

Campus

The new campus has been developed on 100 acres of land at Devghat, Jhalwa, on the outskirts of Allahabad. The architecture aims to transcend established design conventions and make a statement about the similarities between atoms and bits. Instead of the traditional geometric lines, the campus and other buildings have been styled

The campus also houses quarters for the faculty, staff and the students. Also provided are a captive power generation facility and a local communications facility.

The IIIT campus facilities are at par with those offered by the best educational institutions in the country. The technical facilites are particularly outstanding, having been set up recently with state-of-the art equipment.

The courses in IIIT areBTechMTechMBAMPCLIS

IIIT-Allahabad Contacts Ph.+91-(532)-2922025

Universal Digital Library a.k.a Million Book Project

The Campus houses the UNIVERSAL DIGITAL LIBRARY a branch of the Million Book Project which would for the first time in history, enable all the significant literary, artistic, and scientific works of mankind can be digitally preserved and made freely available, in every corner of the world, for our education, study, and appreciation and that of all our future generations.

INDO-RUSSIAN CENTRE FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY IRCB

Under the umbrella of Indo-Russian Integrated Long Term Programme (ILTP) in Science & Technology, several joint R & D projects are being implemented. The centre was inaugurated by Prof. MM Joshi at Allahabad on 23rd December 2001.The First project at this center is the HCRPDB, a Database Retrieval & Mining System for Human Cell Receptors Proteins. HCRPDB has been designed to generate information for structure based drug design on cell receptors proteins and allows retrieval of protein sequence related information.

IIITA's extension Campus at Amethi, Sultanpur District, Uttar Pradesh, Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Information Technology

Hon’ble Mr. Rahul Gandhi, son of late Prime Minister Mr. Rajiv Gandhi and MP from the Amethi Lok Sabha Constituency, laid the foundation stone for the new extension centre of IIIT-Allahabad at Amethi on 14th April. It shall serve to enable deep penetration of Information Technology and allied education domains into India's sub-urban and rural areas. The project is likely to cost about Rs 35 crore, although final details are yet to be worked out. To start with, the extension center shall offer B Tech in information technology and the student strength is likely to be 60 in the first year along with six facultymembers.