Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology (DA-IICT), is a private self-financed university/institute located in Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India. It is named after the Gujarati entrepreneur and Reliance Group founder Dhirubhai Ambani. It is run by the Dhirubhai Ambani Foundation and is promoted by the Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group. The Institute ranked first in IIRF Ranking 2023 for private universities.
Academics
DA-IICT began admitting students in August 2001, with an intake of 240 undergraduate students for its Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) program in Information and Communication Technology (ICT). Since then, it has expanded to include postgraduate courses such as Master of Technology (M.Tech.) in ICT, Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Data Science, Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Information Technology, Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Agriculture and Rural Development, Master in Design (M. Des.) and a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), a Doctorate program. The duration of the bachelor's program is 4 years. The first batch of DA-IICT post-graduates graduated in 2004 and the first batch of graduates in 2005. Fees are nominal when compared to other private institutions in India.
The Institute is also equipped with a state of the art Resource Centre with a rich and diverse collection of more than 31020 books, 11230 e-books, 5674 e-journals, 78 print journals, 10 databases, 663 theses, and 3913 audio visual material in the ICT, social science and humanities. It serves as a creative and innovative partner in supporting the teaching, learning, scholarship and research activities of the Institute.
Admission
Admission is based on Joint Entrance Examination - Main as well as gujarat state exam through ACPC. A few seats are reserved for Non-Residential Indians (NRIs) and Foreign Nationals (FNs), who are admitted through the Direct Admission of Foreign Student (DAFS) channel.
Student achievements
DAIICT has been ranked 11th in the world for student developers among universities in year 2016 by HackerRank Team of 2 students from DA-IICT won the GNLU Debate 2016 in the Novice category 17 students from DA-IICT selected for the prestigious Google Summer Of Code, 2013 Team DA-Developers represented DA-IICT at the Imagine Cup 2013 National Finals and stood third in India for Imagine Cup World Citizenship contest with their app "Read For Blind" Team of 4 students stood third at the National Finals for "Samsung USID Design Challenge", 2012 for their app "Location Alarm" 17 students selected for Google Summer of Code, 2012, the highest number in India and third highest in the world A student won Innovate4Women Award of the Microsoft Imagine Cup 2010 and One of its team were National Finalist in Microsoft Imagine Cup India Team of 4 students won the Unlimited Potential Multipoint Education Award of the Microsoft Imagine Cup 2009, World Finals. The same team stood third in the National Finals in the Software Design category of the Microsoft Imagine Cup 2009, India Finals Two students won Google Women Engineering Award in year 2009 and 2010 Two of its teams were winners at the Microsoft, High Performance Computing Scholars Program 2008 Teams of four students each won the Microsoft Imagine cup for two consecutive years in 2006 and 2007 Student teams won the TI DSP Design Competition in 2005, 2006 and 2007
In 2004, three MSc (IT) students of DA-IICT challenged in the Gujarat High Court, the IIMA decision to not offer admission interviews to them citing their eligibility criteria (AIU or AICTE affiliation was needed at that time). The judgement was passed in the favor of students and the CAT eligibility criteria were subsequently modified.