In the foothills of the Himalayas, lies a small town called Roorkee. This town gained importance with the establishment of third oldest Engineering College in the World-- Thompson College of Civil Engineering, which was established to train Engineers for the construction of the railways, roads and irrigation network. Since then the name has been changed to University of Roorkee . The University awards Bachelor of Engineering, Master of Engineering, and Ph.D. in Engineering and Sciences:

Departments

Dept. of Architecutre & Planning
Dept. of Alternate Hydro Energy
Dept. of Audio Visual Research Centre
Dept. of Biosciences & Biotechnology
Dept. of Chemical Engineering
Dept. of Chemistry
Dept. of Civil
Dept. of Computer
Dept. of Continuing Education
Dept. of Earthquake Engineering
Dept. of Earth Sciences
Dept. of Electrical
Dept. of Electronics & Computer
Dept. of Humanities & Social Sciences
Dept. of Hydrology
Dept. of Paper Technology
Dept. of Mathematics
Dept. of Mechanical & Industrial
Dept. of Metallurgical
New Computational Centre
Quality Improvement Programme Centre
Water Resources Development Training Centre
University Science Instrumentation Centre