Indian Institute of Technology Delhi is an autonomous public research and technical institute located in New Delhi, India. One of the 23 IITs established as centres of excellence for education, study, and research in science, engineering, and technology in India.

Established in 1961, was formally inaugurated in August 1961 by Prof. Humayun Kabir, Minister of Scientific Research & Cultural Affairs. The first admissions occurred in 1961. The current campus has an area of 320 acres (or 1.3 km2). The Sri Aurobindo Marg borders it on the east. The Jawaharlal Nehru University Complex on the west. The National Council of Educational Research and Training on the south, and the New Ring Road on the north, and flanked by Qutub Minar and the Hauz Khas monuments.

The institute was later decreed in the Institutes of National Importance under the Institutes of Technology Amendment Act, 1963. And accorded the status of a full University with powers to decide its academic policy, conduct its examinations, and award its degrees.