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Campus
Located in the Qutab Institutional Area in close vicinity of Jawaharlal Nehru University and the Indian Institute of Technology in New Delhi, India, spreading over six acres of land and overlooking the green ridge and historical Qutab Minar, the IIFT Campus provides an ideal environment for academic excellence.
The facilities available on campus include centrally air-conditioned lecture halls with modern audio-visual aids, conference halls for round-table conferences, an auditorium of 500 seating capacity, MDP Centre, three Computer Centres, indoor games, and excellent residential facilities for students.
Hostel Facilities
The MBA (International Business) is a fully residential programme. There is a separate wing for girl students. The Institute also has residential facilities for participants of its Management Development Programmes. Hostels are fully Wi-Fi enabled.
Library Facilities
One of the largest of its kind in the developing world, with a holding of around 84,000 volumes and subscriptions to 800 journals with complete online cataloguing, the IIFT Library is a veritable storehouse of information. Besides being an invaluable place of reference for industry, research scholars and students alike, the Library has an unique collection of publications of FAO, IMF, OECD, UNCTAD, UNCTC, World Bank, and other international agencies. The students have access to database such as the NIC, CMIE, India Trades, World Bank Indicators and other audio-visual aids on management. IIFT has set up the WTO Resource Centre in the Library to focus exclusively on WTO issues. The Centre is the only one of its kind in India, which enhances the utility of the IIFT Library even further. Besides the main Library, there is a Library-cum-Reading Room open round-the-clock, situated in the hostel.
Computer Facilities
IIFT has three state-of-the-art Computer Centres with a Local Area Network comprising dedicated servers & storage for private cloud, 300 Pentium Core 2 Duo / i7 nodes with wired & wireless access to the network available in the campus. The software applications include Windows 2008, SPSS, Oracle, Visual Basic and Java. Other facilities include 24-hour Internet access via a 50 MBPS leased line, access to national and international databases, in-house publishing facilities, LCD / Plasma Screen Projection Systems, etc.
Publications
The Institute's research work is published in the form of study reports, monographs, status papers, etc. for wider dissemination among the business community, Government departments, and academia. IIFT publishes a quarterly journal, the Foreign Trade Review. In addition, it also publishes a quarterly newsletter, Technology Exports, and a bi-monthly magazine, Focus WTO. IIFT brings out an Occasional Paper series, laying major emphasis on providing research-based inputs on current issues relating to international trade, finance and marketing.