IIIT Delhi, as the university is known is a new Institute which aims at providing the research related facilities and post graduation degrees. The IIIT institute started functioning in the Campus of NSIT or the Netaji Subhash Institute of Technology on its third floor occupying an area of about 15000 sq. feet. The institute’s own campus is going to be functional in April, 2011 and is located in Okhla over an area of about 25 acres.

The campus will have Research and development labs, Instruction labs, Library etc. The IIIT Delhi also will provide Hostel facility for boys and girls when it will be shifted to its original campus. Apart form these it will also provide limited housing for its staff and its workers. IIIT also offers sports facility to its students with many separate courts for various sports.

Currently, The Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology is Offering courses in the research areas of S/w engineering, Data mining & management, Cyber Security (a new flourishing field), Mobile and Ubiquitous computing, Biometrics.

IIIT offers B. Tech (IT) which is a quite different course from General B. Tech (IT) courses and hence does not teaches the basics of Physics but the Basics of Computers in the first year. Apart from this the IIIT offers M. tech. Degree and research degree also.

To get in to IIIT the students have to fill in the admission form that is available online as well as by post. For by post admission form the student has to write a letter for the request of the application form to IIIT. For online filling of the form the student must create an account for the same on the website by choosing a unique user id and password, then the application form can be duly filled and submitted there only. Apart from this the students can save a copy of applications forms in the draft folder of the account created.