Recognition
The institute has secured an overall 6th ranking in the latest National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) 2022. The institute ranked 5th in Engineering, 6th in Law and 12th in the Management discipline. IIT Kharagpur is placed 5th as a Research Institution. IIT Kharagpur ranked 5th in India as per the QS Asia University Rankings 2023 and also managed to increase its position and achieve the place of 270 in QS World University Rankings 2023 and 60 in Asian University Rankings 2022. The premier institute overall ranked 61st in Southern Asia among its global peers. IIT KGP has been named as one of the world’s top 100 universities for the study of 19 subjects, according to the latest edition of the world’s highest QS University ranking. The institute ranked 37th in Mineral & Mining Engineering & 80th rank in Electrical & Electronic Engineering. In Engineering & Technology, it ranked 101st in the world and 3rd in India, as per the 12th QS World University Rankings by Subject, 2022. The Institute has been ranked at the top three in India for Agriculture & Forestry (1st rank), Statistics & Operational Research (1st rank), Mineral & Mining Engineering (2nd rank), Environmental Sciences (2nd rank), Economics & Econometrics (2nd rank), Engineering & Technology (3rd rank), Computer Science & Information Systems (3rd rank), Chemical Engineering (3rd rank) and Accounting & Finance (3rd rank). The faculty and surging number of researchers have also delivered high output and impact in research. Our strategies and roadmap go beyond ranking. We aim towards achievements similar to the global universities of repute. Our faculties have received various national and international awards every year. IIT Kharagpur has also been conferred the Institute of Heritage & Excellence in Education 2022 Award by ZEE 24 Ghanta Education Excellence 2022.
Prof. Suman Chakraborty, Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Kharagpur has been conferred the prestigious Infosys Prize 2022 in Engineering & Computer Science for his exceptional contributions and pioneering work in elucidating the interaction of fluid mechanics, interfacial phenomena, and electro mechanics at micro and nanoscale. iMediXcare Telemedicine System, the brainchild of Prof. Jayanta Mukhopadhyay, Dean Outreach, IIT Kharagpur, has been awarded as the High Potential Innovation by International Council of Academies of Engineering and Technological Sciences (CAETS). It is an international organization of Engineering and Technological Sciences Academies with member academies all over the world, which fosters advancing engineering and technological sciences in order to promote economic growth, sustainable development and societal well-being. Prof. Mukhopadhyay has also featured in the list of Top 2% scientists in the world by Stanford University Rankings 2022 along with many prolific professors of IIT Kharagpur released by Stanford University Rankings 2022. Their consistency in academic pursuits is what has transferred into excellence. Prof. Joy Sen, Chairman, Centre of Excellence for Indian Knowledge Systems, IIT Kharagpur has been nominated as a Member of the Society of National Council of Science Museum (NCSM) for a period of 4 years by the Hon'ble Minister of Culture & President of NCSM. The Member of the Honorary Design Committee of IKS galleries in the New Parliament Building Complex Works under the Ministry of Culture, New Delhi, has also been roped in as a Columnist for the Dainik Bhaskar hindi newspaper on the most coveted theme, “Dharm Ka Vigyaan.” Prof. Sen has been instrumental in the abstraction of the Durga Puja 2022 Creative Economy study jointly conducted by the British Council, IIT Kharagpur & Queen Mary University, UK. Prof Abhijit Mukherjee, Department of Geology and Geophysics, IIT Kharagpur has been listed in "75 UNDER 50: Scientists Shaping Today's India", by the Department of Science & Technology (DST), Government of India. It is a compilation of biographies of 75 Indian scientists across disciplines, who are less than 50 years of age. He has also been one of the primary contributing authors of the United Nations World Water Development Report 2022 (WWDR2022). It is the first UN report on groundwater titled, “Groundwater: Making the Invisible Visible" which was unveiled at the World Water Forum in Dakar, Senegal. Prof. D.K. Pratihar, Department of Mechanical Engineering has received the prestigious IEEE India Council Award - "Technologist of the Year", for his contributions to the fundamentals and applications of AI. Prof. Pradip Kumar Chakraborty, Department of Chemistry, has been selected for the DAAD-DST Indo-German Joint Research Collaborative Grant 2021 in collaboration with Prof. Birgit Weber, University of Bayreuth, Germany. Dr Subhamoy Mandal, an Assistant Professor in the School of Medical Science and Technology (SMST) has been selected for the prestigious honorary position of ‘DAAD Research Ambassador’ for a tenure of 3 years. Prof Samit Kumar Ray, Professor, Department of Physics has been selected under the INAE Chair Professorship scheme. Prof. Kiran Ramakant Gore, Department of Chemistry has been selected as a Research Ambassador at DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) for the period of 3 years. Prof. Manish A. Mamtani, Department of Geology and Geophysics has been appointed as the President of the International Association for Structural Geology and Tectonics (IASGT). The IASGT has a total of 30 Executive Board members from all over the world. Many of the faculty members are members of prestigious international societies and are members in the editorial board of reputed journals. Several of the students have been rewarded with national-level awards like GYTI. It also instituted India’s first-of-its-kind scholarship entitled Pandit Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar Full Scholarship for Top 100 JEE (Advanced) Rankers.