IITs are a world apart when it comes to tech education. They know it and now they’re flaunting it!

Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are adopting different methods and ways to attract creamy layer of students and also to stand out from other IITs.

Several IITs like Gandhinagar, Mandi, Patna, Indore etc are breaking away from the old-school method of teaching and disciplining students.

For instance, IIT Gandhinagar is not policing students and have given freedom to pupils to define their own limitations.

“IIT Gandhinagar believes in giving freedom to its students by treating them like adults. There is no policing on campus. Our students are allowed to define their own limitations. We do not keep tabs on their movements within the campus; neither do we track their attendance," director, SK Jain, told Economic Times.

IITs, which were mostly built after 2008, are engaged in brand-building to click with potential students.

While, IIT Indore has revamped its BTech curriculum to give its students more time for research projects, IIT Patna and Mandi are trying to integrate some of their courses with the heritage and culture of Bihar and Himachal Pradesh, respectively.

"IIT Patna will take seriously its original charter of focusing on interdisciplinary research," Ajay Chowdhary, chairman - board of governors, told ET.

Meanwhile, IIT Madras will 'serious' tag to the new IITs - Palakkad and Tirupati.

IIT Ropar is giving unlimited access to internet to students, which is not the case in many IITs.

IITs, which will begin with first academic session soon, are also getting retired professors.

"Retired faculty is around 50% of total faculty at these two institutes. The remaining will come from IIT Madras. It is the faculty that defines an institute and we want to ensure that Tirupati and Palakkad have the best," IIT Madras director, Bhaskar Ramamurthi, told ET.

IIT Indore too is tapping overseas talent and IIT Mandi too is aligning some of its courses and research with the Himalayan region.