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| motto          = Knowledge is Leadership
| established    = {{start date|2001}}
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| president      = [[Anil Ambani]]
| director       = [[K. S. Dasgupta]]
| city           = [[Gandhinagar]]
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'''Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology''' ('''DA-IICT'''), is a private Self-financed University/Institute located in [[Gandhinagar]], [[Gujarat]], [[India]].  It is named after the Gujarati [[entrepreneur]] and [[Reliance Industries Limited|Reliance group]] founder [[Dhirubhai Ambani]]. It is run by the Dhirubhai Ambani Foundation and is promoted by the [[Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.relianceadagroup.com/ada/index.html |title=Reliance Dhirubhai Ambani Group - Quicklinks |publisher=Relianceadagroup.com |access-date=2010-12-31}}</ref>

==Academics==
DA-IICT began admitting students in August 2001, with an intake of 240 undergraduate students for its Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) program in Information and Communication Technology (ICT). Since then, it has expanded to include postgraduate courses such as Master of Technology (M. Tech.) in ICT, Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Information Technology, Master of Science (ICT) in Agriculture and Rural Development, Master in Design (M. Des.) and a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), a Doctorate program. The duration of the bachelor's program is 4 years. The first batch of DA-IICT post-graduates graduated in 2004 and the first batch of graduates in 2005. Fees is nominal when compared to other private institutions in India.

== Admission ==
[[File:daiict-campus.jpg|thumb|Campus]]
[[File:Resource Centre, Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology (Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India - 19 Feb 2006).jpg|thumb|Resource Centre, DAIICT]]

Admission is based on [[Joint Entrance Examination - Main]]. A few seats are reserved for Non-Residential Indians ([[Non-resident Indian and person of Indian origin|NRI]]s) and Foreign Nationals (FNs), who are admitted through the Direct Admission of Foreign Student (DAFS) channel.
Although in recent years NRI quota is now dismissed.

== Student achievements ==
* DAIICT has been ranked 11th in the world for student developers <ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=Solve Unique Stars|url=https://www.hackerrank.com/contests/university-codesprint/leaderboard/school|access-date=2020-08-08|website=HackerRank|language=en}}</ref> among universities in year 2016.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|date=2016-12-07|title=Which Universities Have the Best Student Developers?|url=https://blog.hackerrank.com/which-universities-have-the-best-student-developers/|access-date=2020-08-08|website=HackerRank Blog|language=en-US}}</ref> by [[HackerRank]].
* Team of 2 students from DA-IICT won the GNLU Debate 2016 in the Novice category.{{citation needed|date=April 2021}}
* 17 students from DA-IICT selected for the prestigious Google Summer Of Code, 2013.{{citation needed|date=April 2021}}
* Team DA-Developers represented DA-IICT at the Imagine Cup 2013 National Finals and stood third in India for Imagine Cup World Citizenship contest with their app "Read For Blind".<ref>{{cite web|author=witlia |url=http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/special-videos/microsoft-imagine-cup-a-sneek-peek_856076-1.html |title=Imagine Cup 2013 |publisher=MoneyControl.com |date=2013-04-23 |access-date=2013-04-23}}</ref>
* Team of 4 students stood 3rd at the National Finals for "Samsung USID Design Challenge", 2012 for their app "Location Alarm".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.usidfoundation.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=237&Itemid=1282|title=Link to the source|website=www.usidfoundation.org|access-date=21 September 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130922202434/http://www.usidfoundation.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=237&Itemid=1282|archive-date=22 September 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* 17 students selected for Google Summer of Code, 2012, the highest number in India and third highest in the world.{{citation needed|date=April 2021}}
* A student won Innovate4Women Award of the Microsoft Imagine Cup 2010<ref>{{cite web |author=witlia |url=http://blogs.msdn.com/b/icindia/archive/2010/04/30/innovate4women-awards.aspx |title=Innovate4Women Awards |publisher=Blogs.msdn.com |date=2010-04-30 |access-date=2010-12-31 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110106132033/http://blogs.msdn.com/b/icindia/archive/2010/04/30/innovate4women-awards.aspx |archive-date=2011-01-06 }}</ref> and One of its team were National Finalist in Microsoft Imagine Cup India.<ref>{{cite web |author=witlia |url=http://blogs.msdn.com/icindia/archive/2010/04/05/mmlia-results.aspx |title=MMLIA Preliminary Results - Imagine Cup India - Site Home - MSDN Blogs |publisher=Blogs.msdn.com |date=2010-04-05 |access-date=2010-12-31 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100406192111/http://blogs.msdn.com/icindia/archive/2010/04/05/mmlia-results.aspx |archive-date=2010-04-06 }}</ref>
* Team of 4 students won the Unlimited Potential Multipoint Education Award of the Microsoft Imagine Cup 2009, World Finals.<ref>{{Cite web|title = Microsoft Announces Imagine Cup 2009 Worldwide Winners|url = http://news.microsoft.com/2009/07/07/microsoft-announces-imagine-cup-2009-worldwide-winners/|website = News Center|access-date = 2016-01-19|language = en-US}}</ref> The same team stood 3rd in the National Finals in the Software Design category of the Microsoft Imagine Cup 2009, India Finals
* Two students won Google Women Engineering Award in year 2009 and 2010<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.google.co.in/jobs/womeninengineering/2010/award.html |title=Google India Women in Engineering Award |access-date=2010-12-31}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.google.co.in/jobs/womeninengineering/2010/award2009.html |title=Google India Women in Engineering Award |access-date=2010-12-31}}</ref>
* Two of its teams were winners at the Microsoft, High Performance Computing Scholars Program 2008<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.microsoft.com/india/hpcacad/ |title=Microsoft Scholar Vs Scholar 2008 |publisher=Microsoft.com |access-date=2010-12-31}}</ref>
* Teams of four students each won the Microsoft Imagine cup for two consecutive years in 2006 and 2007<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ciol.com/da-iict-wins-microsoft-imagine-cup-national-finals/|title=DA-IICT wins Microsoft Imagine Cup national finalsÂ Â - CIOL|date=24 April 2006}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2007/05/07/stories/2007050700960200.htm |title=Microsoft Cup Finalists |publisher=Thehindubusinessline.com |date=2007-05-07 |access-date=2010-12-31}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.efytimes.com/efytimes/fullnews.asp?edid=18743 |title=Microsoft Imagine Cup India 2007 |publisher=Efytimes.com |access-date=2010-12-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070516231520/http://www.efytimes.com/efytimes/fullnews.asp?edid=18743 |archive-date=16 May 2007 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/thscrip/print.pl?file=2006070303511300.htm&date=2006/07/03/&prd=th& |title=Indians' Sonic Map impresses Gates |publisher=Hinduonnet.com |access-date=2010-12-31}}</ref>
* Student teams won the TI DSP Design Competition in 2005, 2006 and 2007<ref>Presentation of Winning Entry in TI India 2005 Design Contest: "OmniBook" by Deepak Jagdish and Rahul Sawhney of DA-IICT [http://tii.developerconference.ext.ti.com/symposium.html] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090303150451/http://tii.developerconference.ext.ti.com/symposium.html |date=3 March 2009 }}</ref>

In 2004, three MSc (IT) students of DA-IICT challenged in the Gujarat High Court, the IIMA decision to not offer admission interviews to them citing their eligibility criteria (AIU or AICTE affiliation was needed at that time). The judgement was passed in the favor of students and the CAT eligibility criteria were subsequently modified.<ref>{{cite web|author=TNN|url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2005-04-16/ahmedabad/27853985_1_cat-group-iim-ahmedabad-cat-bulletin |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121023224413/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2005-04-16/ahmedabad/27853985_1_cat-group-iim-ahmedabad-cat-bulletin |url-status=dead |archive-date=2012-10-23 |title=High Court rules against CAT stipulation |date=2005-04-16 |work=[[The Times of India]]|access-date=2010-12-31}}</ref>

== See also ==
* [[Education in India]]
* [[List of universities in India]]
* [[List of institutions of higher education in India]]

== Notes ==
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== External links ==
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* {{Official website|http://www.daiict.ac.in}}

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