Rise of new IITs: Indore throws freshers into the deep end with research

One distinctive feature of the Indian Institute of Technology-Indore (IIT-Indore) is that it has delinked research from post-graduation. Instead, it prepares under-graduates to plunge into in-depth, applied research very early on in almost all the semesters and even more intensively — making it almost mandatory —  towards the end of their course. 

This emphasis has been incorporated into the very ethos of the institute through a scheme called the Promotion of Research and Innovation Among Undergraduate Students.

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