Shibpur: Center of Healthcare Science and Technology Eight schools of excellence in IIEST are: School of Advanced Materials, Green Energy and Sensor Systems Purabi Das School of Information Technology School of Community Science and Technology School of Disaster Mitigation Engineering School of Ecology, Infrastructure and Human Settlement Management School of Management Sciences School of Mechatronics and Robotics School of VLSI Technology Academics Library The institute's Ramanujan Central Library occupies and houses 158,000 books, 41,000 bound volumes of journals, and a collection of documents, such as patents, standards, technical reports and pamphlets. The library has old and rare books and journals of the nineteenth century. Admission procedure Undergraduate programs to the various engineering disciplines (4-year B. Tech. programs) and architecture (5-year B.Arch. program) are granted via JEE Main, taking 50% students from the home state (West Bengal) and 50% from other states. Students from any discipline other than Architecture, on the basis of their performance, are allowed to change their disciplines at the end of the 1st Year (i.e., second semester) and may opt for dual degree (B.Tech.-M.Tech.) courses extending over 10 semesters as per terms and conditions specified by the institute. For PG programs admission is through GATE for M.Tech. courses and Joint Entrance Screening Test for MSc. Students are also admitted in Ph.D programs twice a year through online applications. Ranking IIEST Shibpur has ranked 301-350 among the top 650 Universities in Asia category by the QS Asia Ranking 2021, In India, IIEST Shibpur was ranked 43rd overall and 21st among engineering institutes by the NIRF rankings in 2020. Noted people Notable faculty John Samuel Slater, principal Sankar Sen, professor of electrical engineering department. Joseph Allen Stein, professor and head of the Department of Architecture Notable alumni Soumitro Banerjee, electrical engineer, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate Amitabha Bhattacharyya, production engineer, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate Gautam Biswas, director, IIT Guwahati Promode R. Bandyopadhyay, American-Indian Inventor Bimal Kumar Bose, scholar in Power Electronics, Chondra Chair of Excellence in Power Electronics, Professor Emeritus at University of Tennessee, member of National Academy of Engineering Soumyen Bandyopadhyay, Architect at Liverpool University holds Sir James Stirling chair in architecture Pradip Chatterjee, flautist and singer, founding member of Mohiner Ghoraguli Arunendu Das, songwriter Chaitanyamoy Ganguly, nuclear scientist, Padma Shri recipient Amitabha Ghosh ex-director, IIT Kharagpur Buddhadev Das Gupta, classical sarod player, Padma Bhusan recipient Fazlur Rahman Khan, structural engineer and architect. Called the "Einstein of structural engineering"