IIT Roorkee is Asia’s oldest technical university ranked 6 by the NIRF for Engineering. The institute has also been ranked in the top 2 category for Architecture for the last four years. IIT Roorkee has over 8000 students, 470 faculty members, and 250 patents filed. The institute is one of the biggest technical institutes in India with 23 academic departments, 3 centres of excellence, 5 academic service centres, and 3 supporting units.