Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, is an autonomous institute that is located in Uttarakhand. It was established in the year 1847 and named Thomas College of Civil Engineering. This is known as the Oldest Technical Institute of Asia. The Institute is located in Haridwar District and is spread over 358.5 acres of land in Roorkee. The institute has two more campuses that are located in two places, one in Saharanpur which is 30 km away from Roorkee's main campus and the other is in Greater Noida. 

IIT Roorkee is excellent in offering top-notch academic courses to the students. Currently, it offers over 14 undergraduate programs, 24 postgraduate programs, and many doctorate degrees. It has 23 departments engineering, architecture & planning, humanities & social sciences, management programs, and many more. As per the National Institutional Ranking Framework 2024 it is ranked 8th in the overall institute's category, in the research category it is ranked 9th, in the top engineering category it is ranked 6th, in the innovation category it is ranked 6th, in architecture and planning category it is ranked number 1 and in management category it is ranked 18th. 

IIT Roorkee is India’s premier institute that is essentially famous for its B.Tech courses. Not many students get lucky to accomplish their degree from IIT Roorkee. To get admission at this prestigious institute, students appear for the All India Examination JEE(Joint Entrance Examination). Also, the cutoff to study at this institute is very high. The top-listed students get the chance to study here.

The full-time courses offered at the institute are B. Tech, B.Arch, M.Sc, M.Tech, MBA, and many PhD programs. Entrance examinations like JEE, IIT JAM, GATE, CAT, and many more institutes are available that pave the way to the IIT. As per the placement statistics, Placement opportunities are abundant at IIT Roorkee. The highest package being offered is in Crores ranging between INR 1.3 CPA to INR 2.15 CPA.

The top recruiting companies of the institute are Accenture, Bajaj Auto, Tata Steel, BCG, Microsoft, Amazon, and Bank of America. Students from all over the world want to be part of this institute. The online courses offered by IIT Roorkee are the Executive MBA degree, Post Graduate Certificate in 5G Technology and IoT, Post Graduate Certificate in Strategic Supply Chain Management with AI, Post Graduate Certificate in Data Science and Machine learning, Post Graduate Certificate in VLSI Design, and Post Graduate Certificate in Machine Learning for Finance.