Internationalization
In line with the Government of India’s policy to internationalize and globalize the IIT brand and promote the quality of Indian education globally, IIT Kharagpur will align and collaborate with the University of Cyberjaya which will act as a host and local partner to establish IIT Malaysia. This important step will help IIT Kharagpur to establish a global footprint in the domain of international Higher Education, following universal standards of education. This year a total number of 46 international students have been inducted into the IIT Kharagpur curriculum. Various MoUs have been signed with prestigious foreign universities including with the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), The University of Warwick (WMG), Purdue University, National Tsing Hua University (NTHU), the University of Torino on institutional collaborations & academic exchanges. A Letter of Intent was signed by IIT Kharagpur with the Technical University of Munich (TUM) on the Indo-German Collaborative Research Centre of Intelligent Transportation Systems (IGCRCoITS) at IIT Kharagpur. The collaborative Research & Development (R&D) between both institutions will emphasize the main areas of intelligent transportation enhancing Electric Mobility Systems including automobiles, rail, marine craft, UAVs, etc. The institute jointly organized an online certification course in Business Analytics and Artificial Intelligence with Virginia Tech, United States. The course will be spanning over nine months and is for both students and industry executives across the world. About 100 applicants would be selected based on their academic background and working experience. This collaboration is a step towards addressing the challenges of intelligent computation and interpretation of data, produced at the rate of 2.5 quintillion bytes every day. In addition to this, the British Council Going Global Summer School is being hosted jointly by the University of Edinburgh and IIT Kharagpur.