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Campus
Located in the Qutab Institutional Area in close vicinity of Jawaharlal
Nehru University and the Indian Institute of Technology in New Delhi,
India, spreading over six acres of land and overlooking the green
ridge and historical Qutab Minar, the IIFT Campus provides an ideal
environment for academic excellence.
The facilities available on campus include centrally air-conditioned
lecture halls with modern audio-visual aids, conference halls for
round-table conferences, an auditorium of 500 seating capacity, MDP
Centre, three Computer Centres, indoor games, and excellent residential
facilities for students.
Hostel Facilities
The MBA (International Business) is a fully residential programme.
There is a separate wing for girl students. Computers are provided
in every hostel room with 2 MBPS Internet connectivity. The Institute
also has residential facilities for participants of its Management
Development Programmes.
Library Facilities
One of the largest of its kind in the developing world, with a holding
of around 84,000 volumes and subscriptions to 800 journals with complete
online cataloguing, the IIFT Library is a veritable storehouse of
information. Besides being an invaluable place of reference for industry,
research scholars and students alike, the Library has an unique collection
of publications of FAO, IMF, OECD, UNCTAD, UNCTC, World Bank, and
other international agencies.
The students have access to database such as the NIC, CMIE, India
Trades, World Bank Indicators and other audio-visual aids on management.
IIFT has set up the WTO Resource Centre in the Library to focus exclusively
on WTO issues. The Centre is the only one of its kind in India, which
enhances the utility of the IIFT Library even further. Besides the
main Library, there is a Library-cum-Reading Room open round-the-clock,
situated in the hostel.
Computer Facilities
IIFT has three state-of-the-art Computer Centres with a Local Area
Network comprising 8 servers (Sun, IBM, Compaq and HP) , 300 Pentium
IV nodes with wired & wireless access to the network available in
the campus. The software applications include Solaris,
Novell Netware, Windows 2000 Server, Windows XP, Lotus Domino, SPSS, Oracle, Developer
2000, and Java.
Other facilities include 24-hour Internet access via a 2 MBPS leased
line, access to national and international databases, in-house publishing
facilities, LCD / Plasma Screen Projection Systems, etc.
Two Computer Labs are dedicated exclusively for the students of the
Institute with 40 computer terminals accessible round-the-clock with
all facilities.
Publications
The Institute's research work is published in the form of study reports,
monographs, status papers, etc. for wider dissemination among the
business community, Government departments, and academia. IIFT publishes
a quarterly journal, the Foreign Trade Review. In
addition, it also publishes a quarterly newsletter, Technology
Exports, and a bi-monthly magazine, Focus WTO.
IIFT brings out an Occasional Paper series, laying
major emphasis on providing research-based inputs on current issues
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