Education Minister dedicated the permanent campus of IIT Ropar to the Nation

Union Education Minister Shri Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ dedicated permanent campus of IIT Ropar to the nation. Minister of State for Education, Shri Sanjay Dhotre also graced the occasion.

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Indian Institute of Technology Ropar is a higher education institute located on the river Satluj in Rupnagar, Punjab.

It was founded in 2008 and is one of the eight newer Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) established by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) under The Institutes of Technology (Amendment) Act, 2011.

IIT Ropar has shared the top place in India after IISc Bangalore with its position in the 351-400 rank in Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2021.

IIT Ropar has been ranked as number one in the world in research citations. In NIRF, IIT Ropar stood 25th in all India Engineering institutional ranking 2019-20.

In QS India Rankings 2020 with an overall rank of 25th in India, IIT Ropar is ahead of all IITs in research quality, scoring highest in Citations per Paper.