IISER Pune Facilities Details: Hostel, Campus, Infrastructure, Library, Canteen

The Indian Institute of Science Education and Research is a residential institution which means that students admitted to a course at IISER Pune must reside on the campus. For this, the institution has separate hostels for boys and girls.

IISER Pune has a separate hostel for girls. The institution is a residential institute and students taken admission at IISER pune must reside on the campus. IISER Pune hostel facilities cater to all the basic needs of students.

The institute offers all the medical facilities on routine and emergencies by doctors and nurses. First aid facilities and medicines are offered 24/7.

IISER Pune has a guest house consisting of 128 rooms. All the rooms are well spacious and furnished to provide comfort to the student's family members and visiting faculty.

 IISER Pune has a gym with sufficient equipment to meet the physical needs of students.

The institute has playgrounds for outdoor sports such as football, volleyball, basketball, handball and cricket and offers indoor sports facilities for table tennis and badminton. The sports department organises annual and seasonal sports meets from time to time.

The institute has a library known as Srinivasa Ramanujan Library established to carry forward the mission of IISERs; where teaching and education are totally integrated with state-of-the-art research. The library has a varied collection of reference books, textbooks and research journals in electronic as well as in print formats in the field of basic sciences and allied subjects. The library also has online databases and indexing databases.

The Indian Institute of Science Education and Research offers food and refreshments to the students by outsourced caterers. To see the smooth functioning of mess facilities, the institute has a mess monitoring committee formed by staff, administration, and a group of students.

The computing facility offered by the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Pune fulfils the requirements of students and staff. The institute has a robust IT infrastructure and has a data centre comprising servers and high-end workstations for various system administration services. Apart from this, the institute has computers and workstations that cater to the personal requirements of students.

As any other institutions, IISER Pune organises various events for entertainment purposes in the institute auditorium.

The Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Pune has a SBI ATM available for the benefit of students on the campus.

The Institute is well connected with public transportation. City Bus Stand is just in front of the campus. It is within walking distance of the institute. Also, the institute offers outsourced ambulance, bus and light motor vehicles transportation services.

IISER Pune is a research-intensive teaching institute. Our faculty and students investigate questions in science that lie beyond the boundaries of conventional thinking. The whole ambiance is very academic with high energy levels to pursue top quality research. IISER Pune is also a member of Association of Indian Universities. Since its inception, IISER Pune has published over 900 research papers in highly reputed national and international journals. Several of these publications have come out of the 5th year research projects of BS-MS students. The Government of India, through the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), has established seven Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research (IISER). These institutes are located in Bhopal, Berhampur, Mohali, Pune, Kolkata, Thiruvananthapuram and Tirupati. The IISERs represent a unique initiative in India where teaching and education are totally integrated with state-of-the-art research nurturing both curiosity and creativity in an intellectually vibrant atmosphere of research. Each IISER is an autonomous institution awarding its own Masters and Doctoral degrees. See the IISER System website for more details on all IISERs.

To make sure that students are getting practical exposure and experience, the institute offers departmental based laboratory facilities.

The Institute has taken the responsibility to host two classrooms, funded by the Government of India which is the National knowledge network (NKN) through a 1 Gbps connectivity. This facility is offered to students so that they can take up the course from different parts of the country.