Indian Institute of Technology Dharwad | 7,658 followers on LinkedIn. An institute of national Importance established to pursue excellence in engineering and technology. | IIT Dharwad is one of the twenty three institutes of excellence for higher education, research and development in science, engineering and technology in India. The institute was formally inaugurated in 2016 by CM of Karnataka Siddaramaiah and MHRD minister Prakash Javadekar for scientific research and technology development under the mentor ship of IIT Bombay. Currently IIT Dharwad offers three programmes of B.Tech, MS, and Ph.D.