[3] IIIT Una is a joint venture of the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India, the Govt.

[6] On 18 March 2013, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India introduced a bill in the Parliament to establish 20 new Indian Institute of Information Technology's in different parts of the country.

[11] On 5 July 2018, Prof. Subramaniam Selvakumar was appointed by the MHRD as the full-time director of the institute, thus making IIITU not requiring any further mentoring from NIT Hamirpur.

Prof. Vinod Yadava, Director NIT Hamirpur also inaugurated the websites of the 10 student associations which included FORCE (CSE), Aavesh (ECE), Amogh (Magazine), etc.

At the same time the students of II, III and IV year had their classes conducted in the temporary campus in NIT Hamirpur (TC-I).

On August 25, 2023, Shree Ravi Sharma was appointed as the Chairperson of the Board of Governors of the Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) Una by the President of India, Ravi Sharma has played a key role as CEO at Nokia and Adani, and has also been a part of the IIT Alumni Council.

He joined office on 24 April 2024.He has previously served IET Lucknow as a senior professor of CSE Department.

IIIT Una offers postgraduate programs in the form of Master of Technology (M. Tech) and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degrees.

The Board of Governance (BoG) of the Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) Una comprises a distinguished group of individuals representing various sectors and expertise.

The senate controls and approves the curriculum, courses, examinations and results, and appoints committees to look into specific academic matters.

The teaching, training and research activities of the institute are periodically reviewed by the senate to maintain educational standards.