Campus Life

If you feel that you have to spend the next four years of life in a total educational atmosphere and will have no time for recreation, your concern is unfound. The next few years of your life at the IIT Kanpur campus would be counted by you as the best. The campus would not only secure you an engineering degree at the completion of your course but would also equip you with many other skills, which you always wanted to acquire.

IIT Kanpur knows that different students have different interests. While some are interested in sports activities, others are keen for music. The interest of the student is been taken care of by the institute in a good way. A student interested in sports need not to go outside the campus. Two courts (Indoor and Outdoor) have been specially created at the campus. The campus has an Olympic size 8 lane swimming pool too for those keen to swim.

Those who have always been fascinated by different foreign languages, the campus's state-of-the-art language laboratory serve as the excellent opportunity for them. The students can learn various foreign languages. For pursuing hobby, a 'Student Centre' exists where students can pursue their hobbies from fine arts to photography to Aero Modeling. There is no boundation for any student. A student can even obtain a Glider Pilot's license from the campus Gliding and Soaring centre.

Besides hobbies and interests, the institute also takes care of the health and medical facilities of its students. A case in point is the Health Centre in the campus with an emergency ward that functions round the clock. Banks, post office and the telephone booths are some of the other facilities that institute offers to its students in the campus. Students can shop as much as they want from the shopping centre at the institute's campus.

The Institute has taken care of student's guardians too. They can visit the students as and when they feel without meeting them without being worried of booking a hotel in the city in advance. For their accommodation, campus has provided for a visitors' hostel besides students hostel.

The City

Kanpur a prime industrial city of Uttar Pradesh state located on the banks of river Ganga, houses many top educational institutions of the country including Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IIT-K). Various textiles and leather industries also find their existence in the city with the total area of 1040 km and around 2.72 million populations. Slowly and steadily, big IT companies are also moving towards the city and making it as their home town.

The tropical climate of the city results in hot summers at times accompanied by the severe heat wave. The maximum temperature touches 45 degree celcius during the summers. The winters are bearable. The months of December and January are the coldest with the mercury plunging to 6 degree celcius. The city also experiences severe fog. The temperature may even touch at times to 20 degree celcius. The city experiences average rainfall of 821 mm per year.

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