The Indian Institute of Technology Mandi (IIT Mandi) is one of eight newer Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) established by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD).

IIT Mandi is a research university now located in Kamand Valley, Mandi city in Mandi district of Himachal Pradesh and has 132 faculties with 1,655 students enrolled at undergraduate, postgraduate and research level. Currently, the university has 1,141 alumni.

Since its inception the institute has been involved with more than 275 Research and Development (R&D) projects worth more than Rs. 120 crore. In the past 10 years, the institute has signed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with as many as 11 international and 12 national universities.[4]

IIT Mandi's permanent campus (about 14 km from Mandi) is on the left bank of the Uhl River at Kamand and Salgi villages.

The Foundation Stone was laid on 24 February 2009[5][6] and the institution was registered as a society in Uttarakhand on 20 June 2009. The first batch of 97 students were admitted in July 2009 with classes starting in IIT Roorkee, the mentoring IIT, on 27 July 2009.[7]

A transit campus at Government Post graduate College, Mandi was handed over by the Himachal Pradesh Government on 16 November 2009.[8]

Timothy A. Gonsalves was the founding Director (15/1/2010-30/6/2020), with R. C. Sawhney, serving as the first Registrar.[9]

The institute became an IIT under The Institutes of Technology (Amendment) Act, 2011,[10] with the intention to expand the reach and to enhance the quality of technical education in the country. The Act was passed in the Lok Sabha on 24 March 2011[11] and by the Rajya Sabha on 30 April 2012.[12]

The Kamand campus ground-breaking ceremony, to mark the start of construction, was held on 12 April 2012.

On 25 April 2015, IIT Mandi became the first of all the new IITs to completely shift B.Tech. students to its permanent campus in Kamand.[13]