Indian Institute of Information Technology, Sonepat (IIIT, Sonepat) is an Indian Institutes of Information Technology located at Sonipat, Haryana. The academic session of IIIT Sonepat started from its temporary campus at National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra year 2014 IIIT Sonepat is a joint venture of the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India, the Govt. of Haryana, with Industries in Public-Private Partnership model and has been declared as the Institutes of National Importance.

The admission to IIIT is through Joint Seat Allocation Authority (JOSAA) and the Central Seat allocation Board (CSAB). The students are allotted admission by JOSAA based on their Joint Entrance Examination (JEE-Main) ranks.
On 9 August 2017, The Indian Institutes of Information Technology (Public-Private Partnership) Act, 2017 was passed, following which IIIT-S along with other newly established IIITs, was conferred the status of an Institute of National Importance. The bill was passed, aiming to generate highly competent manpower of global standards for the Information Technology Industry, expected to act as a major catalyst to develop new knowledge in the field of Information Technology.

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