Infrastructure Overview: IIT, Madras has well equipped with all the modern facilities.
Hostel Details: The campus has 17 hostels, of which two are exclusively for women.
Laboratory Details:The Computer Centre of the Indian Institute of Technology Madras was established in the year 1973 with the objective of providing computational environment for the academic and research community of the Institute. The Centre also caters to the computational needs of different projects from various Government organizations, Research establishments and Industries in India. The Centre offers training and software development apart from being a support service for the faculty, students and staff.
Classrooms Details: The information will be added soon.
Library Details:The Central Library is housed in a separate building and caters to the information needs of the institute faculty, students, staff, research institutions & industries. In addition, there are smaller libraries in each department, which house books borrowed from the main library for quick reference. It has around 2 million books covering all disciplines of science, engineering, technology, humanities & social sciences. The collection comprises printed documents such as books, reports, theses, standards, atlases, patents and journal back volumes. The non-book collections include material like micro fiche/film, audio/video cassettes and CD ROM discs. It has a separate collection of prescribed textbooks under 'Book Bank' for the exclusive use of students. The Central library currently subscribes to around 1,000 scholarly journals in sciences, engineering and humanities. Under the INDEST consortium, the library provides on-line access to a large number of full-text journal databases from various publishers. These e-journals are accessible on intranet to campus users only. The library provides various services for its members such as - Lending of books and journal back volumes, reservation of books, inter-library loan, document delivery, photocopying, DTP & offset printing, CDROM and Internet services & video screening. All the library activities are computerized, including bar-coded ID cards and separate On-line Public Access Catalogue (OPAC) terminals for searching books in the library.
Extra Curricular Details:IIT-M with a plethora of extra-curricular activities procides its students with various opportunities to develop their social, communication and managerial skills outside of the classroom, with the intention of producing well rounded and skilled students. These events are a learning experience outside of the classrooms, enabling them to discover and achieve their talents and potential. Alumni often claim that lessons learnt throught these activities come most in handy and last the longest.
