Ranked numero uno in academics in India and South Asia by the journal Current Science, this bastion of science and technology is unique. IISc is more than solely a research-based national laboratory and a university. It balances research in frontier areas of science and education in current technologically important areas.
Established a 100 years ago by visionary industrialist J.N.Tata on land donated by Krishnaraja Wodeyar IV, Maharaja of Mysore, to encourage research in science and engineering, its illustrious alumni include C. V. Raman, recipient of the Nobel Prize for his discovery of the Raman Effect, Homi J. Bhabha, the father of the Indian nuclear programme, and C. N. R. Rao, one of the world's leading chemists.
IISc has joined the ranks of Georgia Institute of Technology, Rice University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as part of the global semiconductor and computer technology giant Texas Instruments' research network. This collaboration focuses on innovation in analog and mixed systems and digital signal processing.
The institute has ongoing research collaborations with all the universities in the University of California system, Caltech, MIT and companies such as Boeing and General Motors. With a history of being the first scientific research institute in India, and with an alumni that is the cream of the scientific crop, IISc continues to lead the advancement of science and technology