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- Over the past few years, IITs have consistently seen its students turn entrepreneurs, launching successful companies and also attracting billions of dollars in funding (see ‘Entrepreneurial Scorecard’). At the same time, the institutions have been improving their ranking at a global scale.
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Jul 30, 2015 · The IIT alumni, according to Pitchbook, accounted for 77 startup founders raising VC money, while Stanford topped the list with 190 alumni receiving their first round of VC funding, followed...
Jul 3, 2023 · Over the past few years, IITs have consistently seen its students turn entrepreneurs, launching successful companies and also attracting billions of dollars in funding (see ‘Entrepreneurial...
Jul 31, 2015 · The IIT alumni, according to Pitchbook, accounted for 77 startup founders raising VC money, while Stanford topped the list with 190 alumni receiving their first round of VC funding, followed by...
Sep 19, 2021 · The IITs are key to India’s rise as a knowledge economy. Today, they produce more engineering masters and doctorates than graduates. By some accounts, IIT alumni have the power to influence $10 trillion of the global economy. TOI traces the IIT story from its modest beginnings in the 1950s.
Since the US benefited from subsidized education in IITs at the cost of Indian taxpayers' money, critics say that subsidising education in IITs is useless.
Many IIT graduates and professors have pointed to the support of the alumni network in helping to secure funding for start-ups. Alumni groups also stepped up during the pandemic years to mentor and train students and create job opportunities.
Dec 15, 2022 · According to the information furnished by Minster of State for Education Subhas Sarkar, the Centre allotted Rs 22,529 crore to the central higher educational institutions in 2020-21, which was 10.10 per cent of Rs 223054 crore, its total funding on education.
