Indian Institute of Technology Dharwad (IIT Dharwad) is an autonomous technology university located in Dharwad. The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) at Dharwad established in 2016 and started functioning in a temporary campus, previously of the Water and Land Management Institute (WALMI) in Belur village on the outskirts of Dharwad city. For the academic year 2016-2017, it offered B.Tech courses in three core branches namely Electrical, Computer Science and Mechanical. As part of the mentorship plan, IIT-Bombay is the mentor for IIT-Dharwad.