IIT Tirupati
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Other name | IITT |
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| Type | Public |
| Established | 2015 |
| Accreditation | Institute of National Importance |
| Affiliation | Ministry of Education (India) |
| Chairman | Sajjan Jindal |
| Director | K.N. Satyanarayana |
Academic staff | 143 |
Administrative staff | 210 |
| Students | 1,168 |
| Undergraduates | 852 |
| Postgraduates | 167 |
| 149 | |
| Address | Yerpedu , , 13°42′52″N 79°35′43″E / 13.71444°N 79.59528°E |
| Campus | Sub-Urban, 540 acres (220 ha) |
| Language | English |
| Colors | Red and Black |
| Website | www |
The Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati (IIT-Tirupati or IIT-T) is an autonomous engineering and technology education institute located in Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh. Initially mentored by IIT Madras, IIT Tirupati is a 3rd generation IIT located in Yerpedu. The institute has a size of 548.11 acres, including a proposed research park. The Foundation stone for IIT Tirupati was laid by the Union Minister Smriti Irani and M. Venkaiah Naidu, the then Union Minister & former Vice President of India and N. Chandrababu Naidu, Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh.
The Director of IIT Madras, Dr. Bhaskar Ramamurthi has been the Mentor Director of IITT since 2016. In 2017, K.N. Satyanarayana was appointed as director for IIT Tirupati. He was re-elected as the director for a second term since 2022.
The institute is planning to construct an 18 acres research park on the campus, which will soon be the largest institute research park in India, overtaking the IIT Madras research park which has a size of 13 acres. IIT Tirupati is the IIT to have the highest gender and faculty-to-student ratio among all the IITs.