I was just reading a "bio" of IIT (Indian Institute of Technology), and was pretty surprised!..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Institute_of_Technology
I did NOT know that..
And some interesting quotes:
Man.. the life of "mediocre" tech guys in North America is getting harder by the day ain't it? IIT itself doesn't produce too many students, but it's the precedence they place on other local universities. These guys are willing to work for much less but have a good education too.. *sigh*
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Institute_of_Technology
In 2005, a ranking by The Times Higher Education Supplement named the IITs as the third-best institutes for engineering and IT in the world only after Massachusetts Institute of Technology and University of California, Berkeley. As compared to 2004, this year IITs replaced Stanford University to claim the 3rd spot.
I did NOT know that..
And some interesting quotes:
* N.R. Narayana Murthy, founder Infosys: "My son wanted to do Computer Science. But to be in the IITs he had to be among the top 200 in the country. So he chose Cornell."
* N.R. Narayana Murthy, founder Infosys: "I do know cases where students who couldn't get into Computer Science at IITs, they have gotten scholarship at MIT, at Princeton, at Caltech."
* Vinod Khosla, Venture Capitalist: "When I finished IIT Delhi and went to CMU for my master's, I thought I was cruising all the way through Carnegie Mellon because it was so easy, relative to the education I had gotten at IIT Delhi."
Man.. the life of "mediocre" tech guys in North America is getting harder by the day ain't it? IIT itself doesn't produce too many students, but it's the precedence they place on other local universities. These guys are willing to work for much less but have a good education too.. *sigh*