Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (commonly known as IIT Roorkee or IITR), formerly the
University of Roorkee (19482001) and the
Thomason College of Civil Engineering (18531948), is a
public university located in
Roorkee,
Uttarakhand, India. Established in 1847 in British India by the then lieutenant governor,
Sir James Thomason, it was given university status in 1949 and was converted into an
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in 2001, thus becoming the seventh
IIT to be declared.