It&#x27;s a good example of why it&#x27;s dangerous to assume acronyms mean the same thing everywhere.<p>IIT will always mean Illinois Institute of Technology for me, but that&#x27;s in large part due to the fact that I knew about it first and I went there. But it&#x27;s understandable that it means something else in other parts of the world.<p>Off topic: one of the worst things about going to IIT was the emphasis placed on Mies van der Rohe.  Most of the buildings he designed on the campus are quite ugly.