Dr. SPM IIIT-Naya Raipur, established by the International Institute of Information Technology University Act, 2013 of the Government of Chhattisgarh, is a joint venture by Chhattisgarh State Government and National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC). The institute is committed to pursue excellence in higher education, research and development in Information Technology (IT) and associated disciplines. It firmly believes in bestowing knowledge dissemination and imparting entrepreneurial skills to the students to enable them to address real world problems. To empower this vision, IIIT-NR fosters state-of-the-art research and product development laboratories to carry out interdisciplinary research and product development endeavours.Dr. SPM IIIT-NR's fifty-acres residential campus is located in the newly developed smart city of Atal Nagar, approximately 23 kms from the city of Raipur.

IIIT-NR currently runs several programmes for B.Tech and M.Tech degrees. In addition, it also offers Ph.D and MS (research) programmes in various fields.