Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Allahabad

The Indian Institute of Information Technology Allahabad (IIIT-A) was established in 1999, as a center of excellence in Information Technology and allied areas. The institute was conferred the "Deemed University" status by Govt. of India in the year 2000. The Institute has been conceived with the ambitious objectives of developing professional expertise and skilled manpower in Information Technology (IT) and related areas.As an apex nucleating institute in the area of IT, the establishment of IIIT-A, is a major step of Govt. of India towards strengthening the indigenous capability necessary for exploiting profitably and harnessing multi-dimensional facets of IT at all levels, and attaining expertise to enable the country to emerge as a leading player in the global arena

Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad is our sacred place of learning, where we learn and remain committed to lifelong learning with a focused objective that the outcome of learning is to accomplish notch class performance all through, and everyone who is associated thus should create a niche for him/herself. We stand to ensure Quality in Excellence. We pledge that there shall be ‘Quality in the Show but certainly not Show in the Quality’.

IIIT-Allahabad aims to evolve an integrated ambiance of creative learning, researching for novelties, contributing to the growth of knowledge, mapping the knowledge into innovations, innovations in terms of innovative products, services and also in terms of re-engineering the education process itself, devising the newer tools and sophisticating the skills at higher level. The entire process of learning and researching should simply result in performing actions innovatively in and across the related faculties of Computer Science and Technology, Information Science and Technology, Electronics and Communication Technology, Applied Science and Technology, encompassing humanity. The faculty of Management Studies should add to the value of the glory that the IIIT-A hopes to reach. Commensurate to this, IIIT-A should ensure to contribute in creating a strong second line for the World, for India and also to steer the institution locally; and in turn make the second line to commit itself to the responsibility creating a more powerful follow-up line to perpetuate lifelong learning, innovating and creating the future as infinite ripples.

The mission of IIIT, Allahabad is to be a unique and world class nucleating "Apex Center of Excellence" in the area of Information Technology and Allied Sciences, so as to enhance India's Technological strength in IT and for become a pace-setting institution for other similar institutes to be established in the future. IIIT seeks to derive its strength from a linkage with sound Indian traditions of centuries past, and sets out to create knowledge-based resources in regional languages.