Experiential Learning: An IIT Campus

IIT Ropar shifted to its 525 acres campus located at Birla Seed Farms, Rupnagar, Punjab back in 2018

Here’s how the campus looks like

When you enter the campus you will be greeted by four carved Pillars of unique stories built around stone-carved central figures of the Indus Valley Civilization these pillars have molecular forms on the top giving an impression of building modern science on the base of a great civilization

Upon entering the campus we have a modern sculpture that symbolizes the Mission and Motto of IIT Ropar, which indicates three key elements in three turns of the spiral Contribution to Knowledge, Contribution to the Society and Contribution to the Nation. The motto lies in the tip धियो यो नः प्रचोदयात्

Then comes the Administrative Block and Department Buildings of Computer Science, Electrical to the left of the Admin Block and the Department Buildings of Mechanical and Chemical Engineering to the right of Admin Block

ADMIN BLOCK:

Electrical Department Building:

(Inside View)

CS Department Building:

Each Department accompanies various Lecture Halls, Labs, Faculty Offices and a Seminar Hall, CS Department also houses 4 Computer Labs open 24*7

Mechanical Department:

(Inside View)

HOSTELS:

Currently, we have 4 Boys Hostel and 1 Girls Hostel

Each hostel has its common room containing a TV, Table Tennis Tables, and even a gym

1st and 2nd-year students live in double occupancy rooms while 3rd and 4th years get a single room.

The view from hostel

Mess:

Lecture Hall Complex:

It houses various classrooms and seminar halls of seating capacity of 150

IIT Ropar is completely equipped with all sports facilities (Hockey Ground, Cricket Ground, Football Ground, Badminton Complex)

Also, we have an upcoming Hall with a seating capacity of 850 and a Library which will be developed completely by the summer of 2020.

RANKING:

In Times Higher Education World University Ranking 2020 IIT Ropar was ranked in the range 301–350 the only institution in India to do so along with IISC Bangalore ahead of all the other IITs and other colleges

For more reference you can go through these articles:

Why IIT Ropar is the best-ranked university in India

Why IIT-Ropar finds itself right on top

IIT Ropar was ranked 25th in QS India Ranking,107 in QS BRICS ranking and 205th in QS Asia Rankings

In the parameter Research Quality, IIT Ropar was ahead of all the other IITs which is a testament to the great faculties at IIT Ropar who have completed there PhDs from renowned universities around the world and the strong research work going on at IIT Ropar.

Zeitgeist is the annual cultural fest of IIT Ropar held in October with a footfall of 15,000 people from around the country it is deemed as the largest Cultural Fest in the Punjab-Haryana region.

This year we had various thrilling performances including a show by the famous singer Diljit Dosanjh, Comedy Show from Zakir Khan and much more.

Zeitgeist would by far be the best time of your college life.

Here are some photos of the performance at Zeitgeist 2019:

Placements:

This year we saw various companies visiting IIT Ropar with Google, Amazon, Microsoft, eBay, Arista Networks, Flipkart, Snapdeal, Zomato, Tata Motors, Mahindra & Mahindra, Bharat Petroleum, Larsen & Toubro, Meritnation, Kayako, Tata Consultancy Services, HCL, Cognizant, Nagarro, R Systems, SCA Technologies, ITC InfoTech, and Avanti being the big names.

In the year 2019 90.2% of the students were placed with an average package of 14.56 LPA.

Currently, IIT Ropar would be at the 4th position in Generation 2 IITs after Hyderabad, Indore, and Gandhinagar (Although people do prefer Ropar CS over Gandhinagar CS) but the situation would be even better in the upcoming years as IIT Ropar has just started making its name in the International Rankings you can surely expect IIT Ropar to beat other 2nd Generation IITs and even be at par with the old 5 IITs in the coming years.

To sum it all up the campus is really great, This quote

“A narrow path ambling through green fields with silvery waters of the Sutlej peeping from one end and Shivalik foothills as a picturesque outline, it seems to be a drive through a typical rural landscape in Punjab. However, a couple of twists and turns later, four statesque pillars, with Indus Valley inscriptions, supporting steel-finished molecule models throw up a surprise. The first look of IIT-Ropar’s new campus is impressive.”

from the article Why IIT-Ropar finds itself right on top describes it best imo.

EDIT: Attaching some more photographs of the campus

EDIT 2: This is basically an answer to a question in the comment regarding hostels at IIT Ropar

Well first of all yeah ofcourse the hostels are inside the campus,Like all of the other IITs, IIT Ropar is fully residential, here are some more photographs of the hostels from inside