Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology

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Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, usually abbreviated to DA-IICT, is an educational institution situated in Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India. It is named after the Gujarati entrepreneur and Reliance group founder Dhirubhai Ambani.

DA-IICT was established in 2001. Initially the institute offered only a Bachelor of Technology program in ICT (Information and Communication Technology), but it has now expanded to such postgraduate courses as M.Des.,MS(IT), MTech(ICT), MS(IT-Agriculture), along with a Doctorate program.

The first batch of DA-IICT, consisting of postgraduates, passed out in 2004. The first batch of graduates (students of the Bachelor program) passed in 2005.

The college celebrates an annual culfest, Blitz, and an annual technology festival, Synapse.

Many from the first batch have been placed in prestigious companies of India such as Tata Consultancy Services, Reliance Infocomm, Persistent Systems Private Limited,[MindTree] Infosys and Hewlett-Packard and got 100 % placement.

The institute(which is a research oriented institute) has a very good faculty in the areas of IT,Electronics and anthropology with professors like Sanjay Chaudhary and Sanjay Srivastava in the areas of IT, Dipankar Nagchoudary, R.N.Biswas in the areas of electronics and VLSI design, Prof. V.P. Sinha, Prof. Vijay Chakka in the areas of communications and DSP, Profs like Shiv Viswanathan and Ganesh Devy in the area of humanities , Profs like Gautam Dutta in Physics.

It is the first institute in India to offer graduate and post-graduate degrees in ICT. Students at undergraduate level have to go through basic foundation courses in computer science, electronics, communications for 2 years apart from good dose of HSS programs. Starting for 3rd year (5th semester) students opt for elective courses over some compulsory ones. Open electives which aim at broadening horizons of understanding. At the end of each year undergrad students have to go through summer internship. 

   1st year: Rural Internship
   2nd year: Industrial Internship
   3rd year: Research Internship
   last semester: Final Year Project

It also provides well equipped labs.

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