Infrastructure Overview: IIT Bombay has a variety of instructional facilities and teaching aids, which are of significance for its students and faculty. Computer classrooms with individual workstations have been provided, and each department has designated independent research space for its research scholars.
Hostel Details: Each student hostel has a computer room with several PCs, which can directly access any server in the institute through the internet link. Institute is fully residential and has 13 hostels for students. Each hostel is an independent entity with its own mess facilities, recreation areas etc. However students may be permitted to have their own arrangements for accommodation outside campus.
Laboratory Details:IIT Bombay has well-equipped laboratories with state-of-the-art facilities. There are undergraduate teaching laboratories as well as sophisticated research facilities. The computer centre provides computational facilities to users in the institute. Accounts are given on the high-end computational server to all faculty members, students and staff. The centre also administers the computer network and internet
links. The campus-wide fibre optic network provides a high-speed backbone. Connections are provided to all faculty houses and individual rooms in the hostels.
Classrooms Details: Well-equipped, air-conditioned seminar rooms, conference halls and lecture theatres facilitate the organisation of workshops, lectures, conferences, which are regular events on the campus.
Library Details:The Central Library in lIT Bombay is one of the best technical libraries in India. It hosts an impressive collection of academic resources in the form of books, journals, research papers and electronic journals on a variety of subjects including science, technology, humanities, social sciences and management sciences. It houses a large number of full-text electronic journals, online databases and Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD). The web-based library catalogue is accessible from anywhere on the campus’ Local Area Network. The library has an online catalogue equipped with a global catalogue search. The library also offers videoviewing facilities. It subscribes to various important bibliographic services in the
field of science and technology on CD-ROM or through the web. It is closed for only three days in the entire year.
Extra Curricular Details:The co-curricular activities for students are organised by the student’s Gymkhana and are held at the Students Activity Centre (SAC). These activities can broadly be classified into cultural and sports. There are inter-hostel athletics, triathlons, football, hockey, basketball, badminton, tennis, table-tennis, volley ball, kho-kho, squash, swimming, chess, carrom and bridge. Competitions in music, drama, literature, debating, photography, fine arts, etc. are also held. The Performing Arts Festival (PAF) is a mega-extravaganza that exhibits the best of student talent. Along with other amenities, the Gymkhana also has an open-air theatre with a seating capacity of 3,000 people. Some student festivals and activities at IITB are very popular and gather large crowds. Inter-IIT Sports Meets are held annually in October and December, and are keenly contested for the glory of the Inter-IIT General Championship.
