The Department of Physics started its journey in 2015 by offering B.Tech. physics courses to the first batch of UG Engineering students of IIT Tirupati. Senior professors from IIT Madras played an important role in the inception of the department. With the joining of new faculty members, subsequently the department started taking Ph.D. students from 2018. The department admitted its first M.Sc. batch in 2020. It also started the academic programs, B. Tech in Engineering Physics in 2024.
Our vision is to accomplish academic excellence in teaching and research in Physics, thereby contributing to the foremost innovations in Science and Technology. Our vision also includes grooming the future academicians, scientists, and innovators for a better society.
To provide world-class education in broad areas of Physics.
To perform research in frontier and cutting-edge areas of fundamental and applied sciences.
To promote and expand interdisciplinary and collaborative research across the country and the world over.