Administration
Madras Institute of Technology, being a constituent college of Anna University, is governed by a Chancellor, Vice-Chancellor and Registrar of the varsity. The varsity has a syndicate too. The Dean is the head of the Institute and oversees day-to-day administration. Each department is led by a Head of the Department (HOD). The hostels are headed by assistant executive wardens placed under an executive warden with dean as the ex-officio warden.
The academic policies are decided by the course committee, whose members include all the professors and student representatives headed by a chairman.
Madras Institute of Technology follows the credit-based system of performance evaluation and student-teacher relation, with proportional weighting of courses based on their importance. The total marks (usually out of 100) form the basis of grades, with a grade value (out of 10) assigned to a range of marks. For each semester, the students are graded by taking a weighted average from all the courses with their respective credit points. Each semester's evaluation is done independently with a cumulative grade point average (CGPA) reflecting the average performance across semesters. One of the major changes the institution needs to accommodate is allow students to go for final year project and internships. There is less encouragement from professors for pursuing project in other institutions or companies and final semester also has very core subjects making it mandatory for students to do in-house projects. Giving this opportunity to students will greatly improve the popularity and show case the talent of MITians to the industry.
The broad-based, theory-oriented education attempts to enable students of MIT to handle with skill and success a wide variety of technical problems. MIT has remained an important centre of engineering education and earned an excellent reputation both in India and abroad. Admission into the institute previously was through the TNPCEE . But from 2007 it was decided that the 12th grade examinations would be the sole criterion which has favoured the entry of matriculation students.
Prominent alumni of this institute include former President Abdul Kalam and Sujatha Rangarajan.
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