About Birla Institute of Technology - BIT Ranchi

Birla Institute of Technology - Mesra, popularly known as BIT, is a Deemed University under Sec. 3 of the U.G.C. Act 1956. The Birla Institute of Technology was established in the year 1955 at Mesra, Ranchi, by the Philanthropist-Industrialist Mr. B M Birla with a vision to be recognized as a world-class learning institution for engineering and technology. It functions under the overall supervision, direction and control of a high power Board of Governors, comprising representatives of the Ministry of Education, Government of India, the U.G.C., the State Government, The Chancellor, the AICTE, The Hindustan Charity Trust and the Institute Faculty. Shri G.P. Birla is the Chairman of the Board of Governors. The Governor of the state of Jharkhand is the Chancellor of the Institute. The Technical Council decides the academic policy of the Institute. The Institute offers Under Graduate, Post Graduate as well as Doctoral level programmes in Engineering & Technology, Applied Sciences, Remote Sensing, Computer Applications, Information Science, Bio-Medical Instrumentation, Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Business Management & Hotel Management & Catering Technology. It is fully residential, providing accommodation to approx. 3200 undergraduate and postgraduate students and 2000 members of the faculty and staff. The buildings, which include lecture halls, research laboratories, workshops, library etc. cover an area exceeding 3,50,000 sq. ft. It has co-educational facilities with separate hostel accommodation for boys and girls. The well laid out campus provides all facilities for cultural, recreational and sports facilities. The total number of registered students now exceeds 10,000 distributed amongst the main campus at Mesra and the extension centres within India as well as three overseas centres. The Institute along with its extension centres at present has more than 10000 students enrolled for different Undergraduate and Postgraduate Programmes. It also has more than 150 registered students for the Ph.D. Programmes. The Institute has also been active in initiating as well as becoming a part of International ventures and tie-ups. It has collaborative arrangements with Universities in the USA, UK & Canada. It is an active member of the EAGER NETWIC Project of ASIA LINK programme of European Commission for establishing a world class academic network of Higher education in the rapidly growing field of Wireless and Mobile Communication between the five partner Universities