IIT Bombay World Ranking

Can you tell me about the Ranking of IIT or Indian Institute of Technology Bombay? Also provide me the names of Notable Alumni of IIT or Indian Institute of Technology Bombay?

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IIT or Indian Institute of Technology Bombay was founded in 1958 with assistance from UNESCO and with funds contributed by the Soviet Union. UNESCO agreed to provide equipment and technical experts mainly from the Soviet Union, while the Government of India accepted the responsibility for all other expenses including the cost of the building project and recurring expenses. In 1961, the Parliament decreed IITs as Institutes of National Importance.

IIT Bombay Ranking

Internationally, IIT Bombay is ranked overall 202 globally and 35th among Asian institutes in the QS World University Rankings (Quacquarelli Symonds) for 2015.

It featured in top 400 in the ranking by the Times Higher Education World University Rankings of 2015-16. In India, among engineering colleges, it was ranked second by Outlook India in 2015.

Among universities in India, it ranks second in Careers360 Top Universities in India 2016. Amongst government engineering colleges, it was first by Mint in 2009.

It is ranked 2 in National Institutional Ranking Framework published by Ministry of Human Resource Development in April 2016.


Notable Alumni

Dipan Ghosh – Theoretical physicist, originator of the Majumdar–Ghosh model.
N. K. Naik – Aeronautical engineer
Deepak B. Phatak – Computer scientist, Padma Shri award winner
Ram Puniyani – Biomedical engineer
C. V. Seshadri – Chemical engineer
Tathagat Avatar Tulsi – Physicist
Manohar Vartak – Mathematician
Sarita Adve
Sudhir Ahuja
Ramani Ayer
Pratim Biswas
Sanjiv Bhatt – Indian Police Service officer
V. V. Chari
Ashish Chauhan
K. S. Dasgupta
Vinay Deolalikar
Bharat Desai – Founder of Syntel
Jaydev P. Desai
Rajnesh Domalpalli
Hemchandra Kekre – Head of Department of Computer Science, IIT Bombay
Shailesh Gandhi
Uttam Ghoshal
Aniruddha M. Gole
Colin Gonsalves
Vipul Goyal
Raj Gupta
Kota Harinarayana
Subrah Iyar
Sadanand Joshi
Vikas Joshi
Anil Kamath
Ravindran Kannan – Winner of Fulkerson Prize and Knuth prize
Narendra Karmarkar – Mathematician
Pramod Khargonekar
Subhash Khot
Pravin Krishna
Sudheendra Kulkarni – Politician and columnist
Anil Kumar
Udaya Kumar (designer) – Designer of the Indian rupee sign
Arun Majumdar
Victor Menezes – Senior Vice Chairman of Citigroup
Pranav Mistry – Computer scientist at MIT
Dharmendra Modha
Dinesh Mohan
Madhavan Mukund - Dean of Studies, Chennai Mathematical Institute
Jag Mundhra
N. K. Naik
Arun Netravali – Former President of Bell Laboratories
Nandan Nilekani – Co-founder of Infosys
Nitin Nohria – Dean of Harvard Business School
Satyendra Pakhale – Industrial Designer and Architect
Suhas Patankar – Pioneer in Computational fluid dynamics
Apoorva D. Patel
Jairaj Phatak
Manohar Parrikar
Ajit Ranade
Prashant Ranade
Prasad Ram
Ashwin Srivastava
T. V. Raman
Jairam Ramesh – Politician
Kanwal Rekhi – Businessman
S. Shankar Sastry
Parag Saxena
Suresh P. Sethi
Beheruz Sethna
Sheel Kant Sharma
Sunil Sivanand
Sharada Srinivasan
Atul Tandon – former director of Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad
George Varghese
Jay Narayan Vyas
Romesh Wadhwani – Founder of Symphony Technology private equity group.
Umesh Waghmare
Ramakrishnan Nagaraj