Research at IIT Kharagpur 2026

IIT Kharagpur consistently ranks among the top 5 in NIRF Engineering. Research spans every major engineering, science, management and law discipline given the institute's unusually broad academic scope. The institute hosts the Vinod Gupta School of Management, Rajiv Gandhi School of Intellectual Property Law (IITKGP is the only IIT with a Law School), the Centre for Educational Technology, Centre for Cryogenic Engineering, Centre for Theoretical Studies, Centre for Excellence in Artificial Intelligence and many discipline-specific centres. The institute files 100+ patents annually with publications in Nature, Science, Physical Review Letters, IEEE Transactions, ACM and top Springer/Elsevier venues. Major funding from DST, AICTE, MeitY, DBT, ISRO, DRDO, BARC, Ministry of Power and several international agencies. Industry partnerships span Tata Steel, Tata Motors, Robert Bosch, Texas Instruments, Reliance, Cisco, Microsoft, Google, NVIDIA, Coal India, Indian Oil and many deep-tech startups. International collaborations span MIT, Stanford, CMU, ETH Zurich, Cambridge, Oxford, Tokyo Tech and the Max Planck Society.

Research & Industry Partnerships — IIT Kharagpur