IIT Bombay: Campus, Hostel & Other Facilities

Maimil Maiti

IIT Bombay infrastructure provides students with an optimal learning environment for students with its state-of-the-art facilities and spacious campus. The campus of IITB is spread over 545 acres amidst the bustling city of Mumbai.

The Indian Institute of Technology Bombay infrastructure aims towards students' holistic academic development and comfort. In addition to a vast accommodation, the college has a smart campus, hostels, a library, sports opportunities, and every other basic amenities required by the staff and students. Some highlighting features of the IIT Bombay campus are listed below.

• Hostel
• Library
• Sports Facilities
• Laboratories
• Event Venues
• Daycare
• Other Facilities

Hostel

• IIT Bombay hostels have separate facilities for boys and girls. 
• There are 17 hostels on campus alongside guest rooms for students' parents.
• Parents visiting their wards are accommodated into the guesthouse for a maximum of 7 days.
• In addition to IIT Bombay students, interns from the summer and winter internships are also offered accommodation in the hostels.
• Armed with amenities including a mess, TV room, bed, study table, cupboards, wifi connection, power backup and a sports complex, the IIT Bombay hostels are a home away from home for the students.
• The total hostel fee includes mess and medical fees alongside the hostel rent. The component-wise hostel fee is mentioned in the table below.

Library

• IIT Bombay has a central library which has over 4 Lakh volumes.
• The IIT Bombay campus library has around 11,000 members and uses social media regularly to stay connected with the users.
• The Indian Institute of Technology Bombay library has over 2.5 Lakh books, theses, CDs and videos.
• In addition, there are over 19,000 e-books, over 1.19 Lakhs bound volumes of journals, 67,920 reports and pamphlets, over 4400 photocopies and 37 Lakhs journals (both print and digital).
• The library is generally open from 9 am to 8 pm on weekdays and 11 am to 1 pm on weekends, but the library is closed on National Holidays.
• The IIT Bombay Infrastructure includes an IT system consisting of a campus-wide network which is built around a fibre optic Gigabit Ethernet backbone and has five routing switches.
• The IT-Infrastructure of the IITB library has 12 servers and 45 PCs, with full wifi connection catering to every academic needs of the students and faculty members.
• Six PCs have been provided for students to access databases, e-books and journals.

Sports Facilities

• The IIT Bombay campus has both outdoor and indoor sporting facilities, various courts, and a swimming pool.
• The campus has cricket, hockey, and football fields, volleyball courts, badminton courts, lawn tennis courts, and squash courts.
• For indoor games, snooker and table tennis are available.
• In addition, the IITB campus also organises a 3-day sporting event called “Aavhan”, encouraging students from all over the country to participate and compete against each other.

Laboratories

The IIT Bombay infrastructure includes various laboratories for students' practicals and experiments. The labs present on the campus are listed below.

• Civil Engineering Lab
• Chemistry Lab
• Computer Lab
• Design Lab
• Electrical Lab
• Electronics Lab
• Mechanical Lab
• Physics Lab

Event Venues

• The IIT Bombay infrastructure includes a number of lecture halls, seminar halls, and auditoriums for various events, conferences and personal events.
• Refer to the table below for the details of event venues present on the campus.

Daycare

• For working parents, there is a daycare facility on the IIT Bombay campus.
• For admission, the parents must either be IITB students or staff members. 
• Children from the age of 2 years to 12 years are eligible for the daycare facility.
• Various age-wise slots catering to the ease and convenience of the parents are available, including full-day slots, afternoon slots or morning slots.

IIT Bombay Facilities

Some of the other facilities offered at Indian Institute of Technology Bombay are:

• Bank and ATM
• Temple
• Gym 
• Cafeteria
• Medical facilities
• Smart classrooms
• Safety Departments
• Wifi Campus
• Surveillance
• Power Backup
• Transport Facilities