
The International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore (IIITB) was established by Government of India in Bangalore (the Silicon Valley of India) in 1999 with an orientation to produce and promote Information Technology professionals in the country.
The institute, a non profit organization, registered under Society's Registration Act, 1860, is recognized as "Deemed University" hence takes the responsibility of designing its course curriculum, and conducting examination at different levels. The university also conducts research in the emerging areas of information and software technologies. The institute gets support from Government of India, Government of Karnataka, and IT industry of India and Overseas along with many other allied industry partners.
The IIIT Bangalore, to realize its objective, offers programmes at and above post graduate level in different disciplines of Information Technology and allied sciences. The purpose of all these programmes is to produce IT manpower for the service of IT and Software industry and to make India self reliant in the field of IT resources.