IIT Kharagpur is located 120 kilometres (75 miles) west of Kolkata. The campus is located five kilometres away from Kharagpur's railway station. IT Kharagpur has 19 academic departments, 8 multi-disciplinary centres/schools, and 13 schools of excellence in addition to laboratories and central research facilities IIT Kharagpur offers a number of postgraduate programmes including Master of Technology (M.Tech.), Master of Business Administration (MBA), and Master of Sciences (M.Sc.).IIT Kharagpur offers an M.S. (by research) programme; the M.Tech. and M.S. being similar to the US universities' non-thesis (course-based) and thesis (research-based) master programmes respectively. The institute received 171 research projects—generating revenue worth Rs. 417 million ($ 9.25 million)—and 130 consultancy projects in the 2005–06 session. The institute transferred 15 technologies to industry during the same session. The institute has filed 125 patents so far and 25 of them have been granted.