INDIAN INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY RAICHUR

IIIT Raichur is a public technical and research university situated in the Raichur district of Karnataka, India. It holds the title of Institute of National Importance and was established by the Ministry of Education, Government of India, in 2019 under a Public-Private Partnership model, with financial contributions from the central government and the Government of Karnataka. The institute began functioning on 26 July 2019 from a temporary campus at IIT Hyderabad, which served as its mentor institute, with Prof. Budaraju Srinivasa Murty as mentor director. Since December 2022, Prof. Harish Kumar Sardana has been the founding director. Currently, IIIT Raichur shares its campus with the Government Engineering College, Yaramarus Camp, Raichur, while a permanent 74-acre campus is under development, expected to be completed by January 2026. The institute follows a Fractal Academic System involving continuous student evaluation and offers B.Tech programs in Computer Science and Engineering (started 2019, 80 seats) and Artificial Intelligence & Data Science (started 2023, 60 seats), along with B.Tech (Honors) and Ph.D programs. As of 2025, it has about 520 students across all four years of the B.Tech course, with an average placement package of 18 LPA for the 2025 batch.