IIITM-k-wiki:About
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VISION
IIITM-K will be a premier institution of excellence in Science, Technology and Management related to Information that develops professionals and leaders of high calibre imbued with values of entrepreneurship, ethics and social responsibility. IIITM-K will actively promote higher education and industry across Kerala and beyond through its IT facilitated education programs and services.
MISSION
IIITM-K's Mission is to be an institution of excellence in education, research, development, and training in basic and applied Information Technology and Management and to be a leader in educational networking and services provider for higher education and professions. The institute will help the region's development through its education, expertise and services and thereby make it an attractive destination for hi-tech industry.
Besides its core academic and research programs, the institute will support HRD for industry, teacher's training for colleges, IT ventures incubation, multimedia authoring for faculty and experts, and development of IT and IT enabled services for the region.
The institute will provide a pedagogically effective learning ambience through extensive educational technology support and Web enhanced education to its students, faculty, research staff, and the participants in its training programs. In keeping with the times, the institute will focus on learner-centric education that encourages learning by creative enquiry, group work, discovery and practice with the freedom of interaction not restricted by classroom boundaries.
The institute will strive to equip its graduates to keep pace with the changes in technologies by inculcating a world-view of what they learn so that they can apply the same to the challenges of the market and social needs. IIITM-K will ensure that the education imparted will imbue its graduates with values of learning, leadership qualities and social responsibility.
Information Technology is not a subject in isolation. IIITM-K will strive to produce graduates of excellence in IT and Management who can shape IT to the services of technology, society and education. The institute will use IT extensively in every conceivably useful way for conducting its academic, research and training programs.
ORIGIN
The State of Kerala has excelled in the sphere of literacy and has been a guiding example and inspiration for the other states in India. The state enjoys excellent primary and secondary schooling systems that guarantee affordable education to its people. The state also enjoys many good science and arts colleges and is well known for its medical and nursing institutions. However, in the sphere of engineering and technology education, the state has somewhat lagged behind its neighbours, necessitating many local students to seek admissions in institutions outside the state.
With this background in view and the need for the state to take positive steps towards establishing leadership in the fast growing Information Technology field, a high-power committee consisting of leading figures of Industry, Academia and Government was constituted by the Government of Kerala, to initiate steps towards establishing a premier institute of Information Technology and Management. Based on the deliberations of the committee, the Government of Kerala decided to set up the Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management-Kerala (IIITM-K).
The Honorable Governor of Kerala, Sri Sukhdev Singh Kang, formally inaugurated the institute on November 23, 2000. The first batch of students was admitted in the month of March 2001 for the coveted Postgraduate Diploma in Information Technology (PGDIT) of 18 months duration. The convocation of the first batch of students was held on April 7,2003. Shri F C Kohli, a father figure for the IT industry in India, awarded the degrees to this pioneer batch of students. The leading Indian software giant, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is the creation of Sri Kohli who built the company virtually from scratch way back in 1960s when software was even not heard of.
The first batch PGDIT students were enthusiastically received by the software industries and almost all of them got excellent placements in reputed IT companies. The second and third batches of students also got excellent campus placements. The fourth batch of students were admitted in July 2004.
