IIT Dharwad
| Motto | Sā vidyā yā vimuktaye (Sanskrit) |
|---|---|
Motto in English | Knowledge is one that liberates |
| Type | Public technical university |
| Established | 2016 |
| Chairman | Sridhar Vembu |
| Director | Venkappayya R. Desai |
Academic staff | 86 |
| Students | 866 |
| Undergraduates | 701 |
| Postgraduates | 59 |
| 106 | |
| Address | Indian Institute of Technology , , , 580011 , 15°29′14″N 74°56′04″E / 15.48735°N 74.93453°E |
| Campus | Main campus – 470 acres Temporary – Water and Land Management Institute (WALMI) |
| Acronym | IIT-Dharwad |
| Colours | Purple Marigold |
| Website | iitdh |
The Indian Institute of Technology Dharwad (IIT-Dharwad or IIT-DH) is an autonomous engineering and technology institute in Dharwad, Karnataka, India. IIT Dharwad started functioning from July 2016 in a temporary campus, previously of the Water and Land Management Institute (WALMI) in Belur Industrial Area, on the outskirts of Dharwad city. It was formally inaugurated on 28 August 2016. IIT Dharwad's permanent campus is situated at Chikkamalligawad, Dharwad, Karnataka. The campus has been fully operational since March 2023, when it was inaugurated and dedicated to the nation by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. For the academic year 2016–2017, the institute offered B.Tech courses in three branches, namely. Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, and Mechanical Engineering. The year 2021 saw the introduction of an additional branch, Engineering physics. As of 2022, the institute expanded to provide four additional courses of study, namely Chemical and Biochemical engineering, Mathematics and Computing, Civil and Infrastructure engineering, and Interdisciplinary Sciences.
As part of the mentorship plan, IIT Bombay is the mentor institute for IIT Dharwad. The MoE has set up an IIT monitoring cell at IIT Bombay. The committee members were designated as officials on special duty to supervise the process of setting up IIT Dharwad.