INDIAN INSTITUTE OF PETROLEUM & ENERGY

Indian Institute of Petroleum and Energy (IIPE) is an Institute of National Importance situated in Vangali Village, Sabbavaram Mandal, Anakapalli District, Andhra Pradesh. Established by the Government of India under the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, it is supported by HPCL, IOCL, ONGC, GAIL, and OIL, and is designed to be on par with IITs and IIMs. From its establishment in 2016 until December 2025, IIPE operated from a transit campus at Andhra University, before shifting to its permanent 201.8-acre campus, where classes began on January 5, 2026. The Phase-1 infrastructure, costing ₹400 crore, includes academic blocks, hostels for 950 students, and faculty quarters, and is designed for a GRIHA four-star sustainability rating. IIPE offers B.Tech programs in Petroleum Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Mathematics and Computing, along with postgraduate programs such as M.Sc. in Applied Geology, M.Tech. in Petroleum Engineering, and a web-based M.Tech. in Data Science & Machine Learning, as well as Ph.D. programs. The institute has departments in Petroleum Engineering and Earth Sciences, Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Humanities and Sciences. It collaborates nationally with IITs and research organizations, and internationally with universities in the USA, Russia, Norway, South Korea, and Iran.