Rank
3 - Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, Noida
Center
of excellence
Jaypee Institute has emerged as the center of excellence in the
emerging areas of education, including biotechnology, and has been
creating professionals who lead in innovation,
entrepreneurship, creativity and management.
Jaypee Institute of Information Technology University is a deemed
university under Section 3 of UGC Act. 1957 vide Notification No.
F.9-27/2000-U.3 dated November 1, 2004 of the Ministry of Human
Resource Development, Government of India. It is the first amongst
three Institutes of higher technical education, raised by the
Jaiprakash Sewa Sansthan (JSS). The state-of-the-art campus over a
total built up area of over 7,45,272 sqm comprises smart buildings with
internet and Wi-Fi connectivity including environmentally conditioned
academic block, Annapurna (Mess), well-equipped laboratories, Learning
Resource Center, faculty and student residences.
The university offers doctoral, post-graduate as well as undergraduate
programs in the disciplines of computer science engineering,
information technology, electronics and communication engineering and
biotechnology. The university also has various dual degree programs
offered by departments of biotechnology, computer science
engineering and Jaypee Business School. Currently, the university
offers a four-year BTech in biotechnology as well as a five-year
integrated course (BTech and MTech, BTech MBA) in biotechnology. The
laboratories are equipped with the latest scientific equipments and
state-of-art software packages for analysis of biomolecules in drug
discovery (In silico). The laboratory space has been specially designed
to accommodate Thermocyclers, Gel documentation systems, CO2
incubators, deep freezers, Laminar Hoods, BOD incubators, Kuhner
incubators, Lyophilizers, cold centrifuges, fermentors, walk-in cold
rooms, Microplate Readers, pH meters, electrophoretic equipments,
binocular microscopes and inverted microscopes with micro-manipulators.
The university's Learning Resource Centre has around 24,050
volumes of books and is house to over 4,000 e-journals covering
disciplines like computer science, information technology,
biotechnology, mathematics, physics and materials science, humanities,
management and other areas related to engineering, science and
technology. The collection comprises printed documents such as books,
reports, theses, standards, atlases, patents and previous issues of
journals. The non-book collections include material like audio/video
cassettes and CD-ROM discs etc. RIBOSE – The Biotech Society
of JIITU was launched on November 16, 2007 as a wing of
Jaypee Youth Club.
Shalini Gupta