IIT Goa

Indian Institute of Technology Goa

Motto	Vidyā vinayena dīpyate (Sanskrit)
Motto in English	Knowledge shines with humility
Type	Public
Established	30 July 2016; 8 years ago (2016-07-30)
Chairman	K. Sanjay Murthy[1]
Director	Dhirendra S. Katti[2]
Academic staff	68
Undergraduates	566[3]
Postgraduates	157
Location	Farmagudi , Goa , India 15°25′23″N 73°58′48″E / 15.423°N 73.980°E / 15.423; 73.980
Website	www.iitgoa.ac.in

Indian Institute of Technology Goa (IIT Goa) is an autonomous public university located in Goa and an institute of National Importance. Ever since an IIT was allotted to Goa by the Central government in 2014, the new Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) at Goa started functioning from July, 2016 in a temporary campus housed at Goa Engineering College (GEC). The campus is located at Farmagudi, Goa.^[4][5] Currently, it offers BTech, MTech and PhD courses in various core and one non-core branches majorly in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Mathematics and Computing.

As part of the mentorship plan, IIT-Bombay was the mentor for IIT-Goa for three pioneer years. The HRD Ministry had set up an IIT monitoring cell at IIT-Bombay and the committee members had been designated as officials on special duty to supervise the process of setting up IIT-Goa.^[6]