Few Anecdotes about IITs
In the year 2003, in a special episode of CBS News 60 minutes (the most-watched news program in the US at that time), the CBS correspondent introduced IITs as, “Put Harvard, MIT and Princeton together and you begin to get an idea of the status of IIT in India.”
In the above same episode, Narayana Murthy, founder of one of India’s largest software companies, Infosys had remarked that his son wanted to do Computer Science at an IIT. But he couldn’t make it, so he went to an Ivy League university (Cornell) instead.
More recently, in a press interview in 2017 , Warren Buffet then world’s second wealthiest person said that he had once asked his friend Bill Gates then world’s wealthiest person that if he could hire from only one university in the world — which one would it be? IIT — was Gates unambiguous answer.
The statements by Gates and Murthy or CBS’s description are just some of several examples that indicate the extraordinary global reputation of Indian Institute of Technology (IITs). IITs have unmistakably maintained the top rank status across all college categories in modern India. Their graduate continue to make consequential impacts on our society and economy.
Over five decades after inception, IITs remain an attraction point for bright young Indians every year through the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE). Over 10 lakh students register for JEE every year; only about 10,000 get an IIT admission call. Admits for the old five IITs form an even smaller subset of that.
References —
- notionpress.com | A Plan That Actually Works by Anagh Prasad.
