Abpout Girijananda Chowdhury Institute of Management and Technology

Girijananda Chowdhury Institute of Management and Technology, Guwahati campus was founded on 7 September 2006 as the first non-governmental engineering institute in Assam under the patronage of the Shrimanta Shankar Academy Society. Ever since its inception, the institute’s aim has been to establish a morally sound educational system, which not only produces competent professionals but also excellent human beings contributing towards the welfare of the Society.

This Institute was established with approval from the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), New Delhi and permission from the State Government. Initially, GIMT was affiliated to the oldest and most reputed University in the State i.e. Gauhati University. Under the policy to bring all the engineering colleges under the same umbrella, Assam Science and Technology University (ASTU) was established by Govt.of Assam and since August 2013, the institute has been affiliated to this University.

The first session of the Institute commenced on 13 July 2006 with 240 students in four disciplines leading to the Bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering (ETE),Applied Electronics and Instrumentation (AEI),Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) and Information Technology (IT). Two more undergraduate programmes in Mechanical Engineering(ME) and Electrical Engineering (EE) were added in the years 2007 and 2008 respectively. Further in the year 2014,Civil Engineering (CE) was established. The first postgraduate course in Business Administration leading to award of MBA degree was introduced in the year 2008. In 2009, the second postgraduate programme in Computer Application leading to award of MCA degree commenced at the institute.

The Institute also has approval from AICTE for Master of Technology (M. Tech) programme in Computer Science & Engineering (CSE), Electronics and Communications Engineering (ECE), Instrumentation and Control Engineering (ICE) and Thermal and Fluid Engineering (TFE).

Although only 14 years old, GIMT has already evolved as a pioneer in the field of higher technical education. The quality is further amply recognized when five engineering programmes (B.Tech in AEI, CSE, ME, EE, ECE) were provisionally accredited by NBA in 2016. As an extension to it, in 2019, the B.Tech programmes in Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science and Engineering have been further accredited by NBA for three academic years upto 30.06.2022.

Information compiled from:Girijananda Chowdhury Institute of Management and Technology -Website