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Indian Institute of Technology Madras is one among the foremost institutes of national importance in higher technological education, basic and applied research. In 1956, the German Government offered technical assistance for establishing an institute of higher education in engineering in India. The first Indo-German agreement in Bonn, West Germany for the establishment of the Indian Institute of Technology at Madras was signed in 1959. The Institute was formally inaugurated in 1959 by Prof. Humayun Kabir, Union Minister for Scientific Research and Cultural Affairs. The IIT system has sixteen Institutes of Technology. The first of these to be instituted are at Kharagpur (estb. 1951), Mumbai (estb. 1958), Chennai (estb. 1959), Kanpur (estb. 1959), Delhi (estb. 1961), Guwahati (estb. 1994) and Roorkee (estb. 1847, joined IITs in 2001). IIT Madras is a residential institute with nearly 550 faculty, 8000 students and 1250 administrative & supporting staff and is a self-contained campus located in a beautiful wooded land of about 250 hectares. It has established itself as a premier centre for teaching, research and industrial consultancy in the country. The Institute has sixteen academic departments and a few advanced research centres in various disciplines of engineering and pure sciences, with nearly 100 laboratories organised in a unique pattern of functioning. A faculty of international repute, a brilliant student community, excellent technical & supporting staff and an effective administration have all contributed to the pre-eminent status of IIT Madras. The campus is located in the city of Chennai, previously known as Madras. Chennai is the state capital of Tamilnadu, a southern state in India.

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi is one of the 23 IITs created to be National Centres of Excellence for training, research and development in science, engineering and technology in India. Established as College of Engineering in 1961, the Institute was later declared as an Institution of National Importance under the "Institutes of Technology (Amendment) Act, 1963" and was renamed as "Indian Institute of Technology Delhi'. Since its inception, over 50,000 have graduated from IIT Delhi, of which more than 5500 are with a Ph.D. degree, in various disciplines including Engineering, Physical Sciences, Management and Humanities & Social Sciences. In 2018, IIT Delhi received the special status of Institution of Eminence (IoE) by the Govt. of India, giving it greater autonomy in various matters including hiring of foreign faculty and starting collaborations with foreign institutions.

Nirma University was established in 2003 by the initiative of Nirma Education & Research Foundation (NERF). It is the first private University in Gujarat. It has been recognised by the University Grants Commission (UGC) under Section 2 (f) of the UGC Act and Accredited by National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC). The University is one of the leading universities consistently ranked among top 10 private universities in India. Dr Karsanbhai K Patel, the industrialist and founder Chairman of the Nirma group, crystallized his long-cherished dream of providing world-class facilities for professional education in the state of Gujarat through the establishment of the NERF in 1994. He believed that an institute of professional courses imparting world-class education facilities to the youth was the need of the hour for the state of Gujarat. Nirma University spread across 125 acres in the sprawling lush green campus has world-class infrastructure and facilities. Today it is identified with cutting edge research, robust academic programmes, quality teaching-learning process and over-all personality development of its students. The state of art campus provides a refreshing environment, stimulates intellectual growth and creativity. The Constituent Institutes of the University are Institute of Technology (1995), Institute of Management (1996) Institute of Diploma Studies (1997), Institute of Pharmacy (2003), Institute of Science(2004), Institute of Law (2007) and Institute of Architecture (2014). All the Nirma University institutes are providing value-based quality professional education and are widely respected for their contribution to society. All the constituent institutes of Nirma University have been consistently ranked highly by various reputed and renowned survey agencies.