Life @ Indian Institute Of Technology - IIT Ropar - Ropar (Punjab)

The temporary campus for IIT Ropar is set up with all the required facilities. Class rooms fitted with multimedia, Airconditioners , faculty rooms and administrative wing are all in place.

There are four hostels; three for boys and one for girls. These hostels, equipped with modern messing units.

Faculty recruitment, creation of laboratories and other support facilities are in full swing. The Institute has been operating from the transit campus since 18th August, 2009.

In 2017, the institute will be relocated to its own campus, spread over a 500 acre area, along the banks of the river Satluj. 

The Institute is located at Ropar, the headquarters of Rupnagar district, Punjab. This institute, with its establishment, joins a string of premier educational institutions in Punjab.

The town of Ropar, the district headquarters, is 42 kms from Chandigarh, the capital of Punjab. Rupnagar is well connected by both road (National highway NH-21) and railways (the Delhi-Ambala-Una railway line passes through Rupnagar).

The nearest airport is in Chandigarh, about 50 kms from Rupnagar.Chandigarh International Airport is now shifted to Mohali permanently bringing airport connectivity near to the campus.