IIT Delhi Revamps Syllabus After 12 Years, Effective in 2025

• IIT Delhi revamps its curriculum after 12 years to align with industry needs.
• New BTech courses include training in ethical AI and sustainability practices.
• Student workload eased with smaller class sizes and reduced credit requirements.

In a major decision, the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi has entirely revamped its curriculum after 12 years. This action follows the demands of students' needs due to evolving industry demands.

Rangan Banerjee, the newly appointed Director of the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (IIT-Delhi), announced that the institute will introduce the updated curriculum for all programs starting with the 2025 academic year. In a Tuesday interview with PTI, Banerjee stated that the most recent curriculum update took place in 2013. 

He said,'' The industry demands are rapidly changing. There is a whole new emergence of AI and a focus on sustainability. The exercise for this revamp began in 2022. Over the last few years we have taken extensive stakeholder feedback. We have been talking to our alumni, students.''

The class sizes for newcomers have been cut in half, and the credit requirements have been reduced. "The concern about the burden on students was definitely one of the factors which guided our curriculum revamp. We have restricted the number of core credits per semester and especially in the first two semesters when the first-year students join, they will have a relatively reduced load. We have also tried to see that in the first year the class sizes are smaller," he remarked.  

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Banerjee clarified that the decreased class size for the initial two semesters will now be 150 rather than 300 to provide more individualized attention.

IIT Delhi's BTech students will participate in compulsory training focused on using AI ethically and responsibly, as stated by Director Rangan Banerjee in a PTI interview. The panel responsible for the IIT Delhi curriculum revamp reviewed the syllabi at eight institutions, such as Stanford, MIT, and Cambridge; Harvey Mudd College in California; Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Indiana; along with IIT Bombay, Gandhinagar, and Hyderabad, said Director Rangan Banerjee.

IIT Delhi is revamping its curriculum after 12 years, with plans to implement this change in the 2025 academic session, as stated by Director Rangan Banerjee to PTI. According to Director Rangan Banerjee in a PTI report on the curriculum revamp, each BTech course at IIT Delhi will incorporate sustainability training.