IIT Tirupati
Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati (IIT Tirupati) is an autonomous engineering and technology education institute located in Tirupati. It started functioning from 5 August 2015 in a temporary campus housed at Krishna Theja Educational Institutions in Chadalawada Nagar. Now IIT Tirupati, the fastest growing 3rd generation IIT, has a beautiful transit campus at Yerpedu and has shifted most of its operations from the temporary to the transit campus which is a part of the 500+ acre permanent campus at the same site in Yerpedu. Till 2016 a Director was appointed by MHRD for IIT Tirupati, the Director  of IIT Madras, Dr. Bhaskar Ramamurthi was the Mentor Director. In 2017, Dr. K. N. Satyanarayana was appointed as director for IIT Tirupati. Campus. IIT-Tirupati was initially functioned out of the campus of Chadalawada Group of Institutes in Tirupati, while the permanent building is coming up near Yerpedu located between Renigunta and Srikalahasti. The hostel facility for boys and girls has been arranged at Transit Campus(30 acres), Yerpedu, which is to be coming up as the permanent campus. The land acquisition(531 acres) for the permanent campus is already completed and transit campus has been already constructed which consists of  the Classroom Complex, Computer Lab, Engineering Workshops for all trades, Library, Play Ground, Indoor stadium and health center. Whereas a few Labs are still being functioned from the temporary campus. Academics. IIT Tirupati offers a 4-year Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) along with 2-years Master of Science (M. Sc) Master of Science (M.S. ( by Research) ), Master of Technology (M.Tech - started in 2018) & Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) programmes in several engineering, science and humanities fields . The academics of IIT Tirupati have been divided in two parts i.e. curriculum and courses. Admission to the B.Tech programme is through the Indian Institute  of Technology Joint Entrance Examination (IIT-JEE-Advanced) and students are admitted after completing 10+2 schooling. Admission to the M.Tech/MSc/Ph.D programmes is through Graduate Aptitute Test in Engineering (GATE) - for M.Tech/Ph.D , Joint Admission Test for MSc (JAM). The institute flagged its beginning with the following 4 departments . Grading Letter Grades Based on the performance, each student is awarded a final letter grade at the end of the semester, in each subject. The letter grades and the corresponding grade points are as follows: