IIT Bhubaneswar has a permanent campus of 936 acres established in 2008. Most of the campus buildings have been up and running since 2015. There are separate hostels for boys and girls and all the accommodation has been shifted to the new campus, which is 30 kilometers away from the old campus. There are enough numbers of lifts, washing machines, Geysers, Water Purifier cum cooler in every wing. There are also common rooms (with TV sets), library and gym facilities inside the hostel itself. As of 2019 two more boys hostel have been established. There are separate buildings for first-year classes and a lab complex that has been made for students. It has reported that the campus buildings were completed by January 2017. The outdoor sports activity areas are not completed yet but most of the new IITs have the same situation. All the new admissions are accommodated in new campuses and sports complexes are on verge of completion. Each of the academic buildings has good facilities like a central cooling system, CCTV for security, etc.

The proposed design for the campus is taking its shape and students are happy with the infrastructure of IIT Bhubaneswar. After completion of the Student Activity Centre, the place would be a bliss for students.
 

Yes, IIT Bhubaneswar will provide you with one of the best laboratories and staff in India for the Mechanical Engineering Course. The college has been constantly working to improve its staff and laboratories since its establishment in 2008. IIT Bhubaneswar has seven schools working under its Guidance: School of Basic Sciences, School of Earth, Ocean and Climate Sciences, School of Electrical Sciences, School of Humanities, Social Sciences and Management, School of Infrastructure, School of Mechanical Sciences and School of Minerals, Metallurgical and Materials Engineering. You’ll find separate well-equipped laboratories for each of these schools which facilitate students with good practical exposure. There are laboratories with 30 workstations served by an 18 blade server in the school of Mechanical Engineering. The list of major labs that will help you in the mechanical engineering course are as follows:

• Material Testing Laboratory
• Machine & Mechanism Laboratory
• CAD/CAM/CAE Laboratory
• Machine Tools & Machining Laboratory
• CWF Laboratory
• Advanced Product Development Laboratory
• Sense & Process Laboratory
• Advanced Manufacturing Laboratory
• Heat Transfer Laboratory
• Artificial Intelligence and Mechatronics Laboratory
• IC Engine Laboratory
• Fluid Mechanics Laboratory
• Micro & Nanoscale Transport Phenomena Laboratory
• Applied -Thermofluid Laboratory
• Instrumentation Laboratory
• Metrology Laboratory

Apart from laboratories, you will also have the support of well-qualified faculties which will not only help you in understanding your course curriculum but also will guide you in your future career. The school of mechanical science employs more than 200 staff. You can visit the official website and easily access the details of all the staff members. The faculties are very friendly with students and are also involved in basic research in their own areas of specialization. However, I believe that it’s the student and his effort which makes him draw maximum benefit and knowledge from the faculties. As the institute provides you with a blend of the best theoretical and practical learning experience, so I’ll recommend you to work hard during the duration of your course.

No, there is no swimming pool inside the campus of IIT Bhubaneswar as of now. However, the construction of a swimming pool has been included in the upcoming campus plan. For now, the swimming pool at Kalinga Stadium Bhubaneswar which is one of the best swimming pools is used by the aquatics team of IIT Bhubaneswar for practice. According to the director of the institute, plans for an Olympic size swimming pool have been there in the pipeline for a long time and it may take at least two more years to be constructed. There are also plans to include the swimming pool in the Student Activity Centre itself(SAC). So there are no swimming pools in the student activity center as of now, but there may be one in a couple of years.

The classrooms at IIT BHU are good in terms of sitting capacity and ambiance. There are three Lecture Hall Complexes at IIT BHU and each of them has 9 classrooms. Each classroom has a sitting capacity of 150 – 200 students and each classroom is technically equipped with projectors, screens, and speakers. All the lectures for the first-year students take place in the lecture hall complexes. The only demerit is that these classrooms do not have air conditioners installed, but the good part is that the classrooms are well ventilated so in the summer season too the room temperature does not go too high.

The classrooms in the ABLT complex do have air conditioners installed and the infrastructure of the complex is also very nice. Mostly guest lectures are held in the ABLT complex.

Each department at IIT BHU also has its own classrooms in which classes of the second year and onwards takes place. These classrooms are also spacious and all of them are technically equipped with projectors and speakers and can accommodate a maximum of around 50 students.

IIT BHU provides a plethora of facilities and is on the same level as all the other old IITs and also provides some facilities which aren’t provided by old IITs. First and foremost, IIT BHU provides opportunities to learn some of the courses and foreign languages from the departments of BHU. This is unique in itself. Hostels are huge and almost all of them are renovated now. There are beautiful lawns inside each one of them( where you could play football ), a tennis court or two, some pull up bars, etc. Mess food here is decent compared to any other college, not only the old IITs. Internet speed is quite impressive here. With the new Wifi system installed in the college, access to high-speed internet is ubiquitous and you do not require to have a LAN and a laptop. Wifi downloading speed goes up to 20 Mbps sometimes.

Coming to the campus, it is the second-largest campus (1400 acres) in India with a whole lot of greenery and nature inside. You’ll see peacocks randomly strolling on the roads and monkeys occasionally. The BHU campus is in the middle of the city, so you will have easy access to restaurants, cinema halls, and the main attraction of Varanasi, the ghats. Most of the older IITs are far away from the cities, so you have to struggle for the above. There are newly constructed departments with state of the art laboratories and lecture theaters. A two-story fully renovated and air-conditioned library has been constructed recently. BHU library which is one of the biggest libraries in India could also be used by the students of IIT. In IIT BHU students can engage in sports like football, cricket, hockey, handball, basketball, athletics, taekwondo, boxing, etc. Besides this, there is a temple popularly known as VT (Vishwanath temple) which is one of the major attractions of BHU.

Placements are quite good at IIT BHU due to the huge alumni base of this IIT. Almost all of the major MNCs and other recruiters come here to recruit.

IIT Bhubaneswar being a new IIT has good laboratory facilities. All the engineering branches and basic science departments are equipped with state-of-the-art laboratories. 

The Department of Civil Engineering, School of Infrastructure has eight laboratories equipped with modern facilities to support teaching and to carry research works in any specialization of Civil Engineering. Computational lab, Concrete lab, Environmental lab, Geotechnical lab, Structural lab, Surveying Lab, Transportation lab, Water Resources lab are the laboratories in the Civil engineering department. Apart from the central computational facility, the school has an advanced computational laboratory too. School of Mechanical Sciences has well-equipped laboratories along with a high-end computational laboratory with 30 workstations served by an 18 blade server. The School of Electrical Sciences has full-fledged laboratories to train the students from the very basics to modern trends in the field of Electrical Engineering, Electronics, and Communication and Computer Science Engineering. The students utilize all lab equipment to carry out the design and testing of projects. At present, there are 33 laboratories at this school. School of Minerals, Metallurgical, and Materials Engineering have 8 laboratories for academic and research works. School of Basic Sciences has more than 20 laboratories for different subjects like Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, and their specializations. 

The ICLDB Laboratory at School of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Management in IIT Bhubaneswar provide access to state-of-the-art technology and updated databases for research and teaching in Economics. Currently there are 10 computers. Many of the systems are well equipped with statistical software such as SPSS, STATA, EViews, Limdep, etc. 

There is also a Language Laboratory fitted with multimedia and learning content that is ideal for engineering students. The software, content and module for the classroom are based on the Video-Auditory-Reading-Writing-Kinesthetic (VARK) model that enables non-speakers of English to practice and get better. 

IIT Bhubaneswar is transferred to its permanent campus sometimes back. Most of the laboratory facilities for the UnderGraduate (UG) Programme are efficiently equipped as well as fully functional by now. Every school has its own laboratories that they can access.

If we talk about the Sports facilities, they are yet in a developing stage which is rather disappointing for many of the students. Apart from these facilities, other functional facilities include a gym, volleyball court, basketball court, and badminton court (both in Mahanadi [B] and Subarnarekha [G] hostels). Although, there are also temporary grounds for football, cricket, and athletics. 

For all the non-functional facilities, the college is taking measures to make them functional soon so that the students can engage in extracurricular activities along with academics.

IIT Bhubaneswar is among the second generation of IIT and it was established in 2008. Despite being a newly established institute, IIT Bhubaneswar is doing quite well in terms of academics and placements. According to 2020 NIRF Rankings. IIT Bhubaneswar was ranked at 22nd among the engineering colleges in India.

It is a new IIT and still in the developing phase, so it does not have the infrastructure as the old well-established IITs like Delhi, Bombay, etc. IIT Bhubaneswar as a campus is much better than any other new IITs but it does lack a proper playground and the students have to depend on the IMMT grounds which are only open for weekends. It also does not have some facilities like few labs for the school of Mechanical Engineering. But that does not mean IIT Bhubaneswar is any less. IIT Bhubaneswar is a new establishment and it will take some more years for this institute to come at the same level as the old IITs.

IIT Bhubaneswar also offers many facilities, for example, it has a Design and Innovation Centre (DIC) which is funded by the Ministry of Human Research Development (MHRD). Students work on cultural programs, fests, around the year to liven up the culture of IIT. IIT Bhubaneswar may not have all the facilities like the old IITs but they are trying their best to improve the IIT status.