INDIAN INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, LUCKNOW

Indian Institute of Information Technology, Lucknow (IIIT Lucknow or IIITL) is a technical university located in IT City, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, focused on Information Technology. It was established by the Ministry of Education, Government of India, in partnership with the Government of Uttar Pradesh and the Uttar Pradesh Electronics Corporation as an industry partner, on a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) basis. For its first academic session in 2015–16, classes were held at the mentor institute, IIIT Allahabad's campus. Dr. Arun Mohan Sherry, former Chief Academic Officer of Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Sciences, was appointed as the Founding Director. IIITL offers BTech programs in Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, and Computer Science and Business, along with MTech in Computer Science, MBA in Digital Business, PhD programs, and MSc programs in Data Science, AI and ML, and Economics and Management. Admission to BTech is through JoSAA, MTech through CCMT, and MSc through the Joint Admission Test for Masters. The institute has departments of Computer Science, Information Technology, Mathematics, and Management, and has opened a research centre, the Centre for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (CDSAI).