The Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur is an Autonomous University declared to be Institute of National Importance by Government of India under IIT Act. Institute is located in sprawling green campus Uttar Pradesh, about 15 km north-west of the city of Kanpur in the Kalyanpur suburb. Established in 1959 as one of the first Indian Institute of Technology, the institute was created with the assistance of a consortium of nine leading US research universities as part of the Kanpur Indo-American Programme . IIT Kanpur was established by an Act of Parliament in 1959. The institute was... started in December 1959 in a room in the canteen building of the Harcourt Butler Technological Institute at Agricultural Gardens in Kanpur. In 1963, the institute moved to its present location, on the Grand Trunk Road near the village of Kalyanpur in Kanpur district. During the first ten years of its existence, IIT Kanpur benefited from the Kanpur Indo-American Programme , where a consortium of nine US universities (namely M.I.
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| Location: | Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh
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| Founded: | 1959 |
| School type: | Research |
| Total enrollment: | 5,300 |