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Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT), formerly KIIT, Bhubaneswar, is a private deemed university located in Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India. It offers 34 undergraduate, 32 postgraduate, 10 integrated, 11 Ph.D and 7 postdoctoral research programmes in the fields of science and engineering, medical science, management, law, film and media, humanities and yoga and sports.

It was founded in 1992 as Industrial Training Institute in Bhubaneswar. In 2017 it was renamed Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology following the UGC order to drop the term "University" from the name for all the institutes granted the status of 'Deemed to be Universities'.

History

KIIT was established in 1992 as an Industrial Training Institute with only twelve students and two faculty. It is part of KIIT Society which is estimated to be worth US$1.3 billion as of 2020. In 1997, the School of Technology and the School of Computer Application was established. In 2004 it was conferred the status of deemed university and renamed KIIT University.

The KIIT School of Biotechnology, School of Rural Management, School of Medicine and KIIT Law School were started in 2007. It was declared as deemed university in 2004 and was conferred with Category A status in 2014.

In 2017, the institute was renamed back Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology, following a request from all institutes deemed to be universities not to use "university" in their title.

KIIT is an Institute of Eminence as declared by the Government of India

Central library of the institute

Academics

KIIT has 27,000+ students. Each academic program is functioning in different independent campuses.

Accreditation

KIIT was accredited by National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) with an A++ grade with a score of 3.48 out of 4 points.

Rankings

University rankings
General – international
QS (Asia) (2023)401–500
Times (World) (2023)601–800
Times (Asia) (2022)201–250
Times (Emerging) (2022)201–250
General – India
NIRF (Overall) (2024)28
NIRF (Research) (2024)46
NIRF (Universities) (2024)15
Engineering – India
NIRF (2024)37
Medical – India
NIRF (2024)25
Law – India
NIRF (2024)11
Business/Management – India
NIRF (2024)67
Dental – India
NIRF (2024)22


Internationally, KIIT was ranked 401–500 in Asia on the QS World University Rankings of 2023. It was ranked 601–800 in the world by the Times Higher Education World University Rankings of 2023, 201–250 in Asia in 2022 and in the same band among emerging economies.

In India, it was ranked 37th among engineering colleges by the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) in 2024, 15th among all universities and 28th overall. NIRF also ranked it 67th in the management ranking, 25th in medical ranking and 11th in law ranking. KIIT ranked 1st in India in the 2020 ARIIA Ranking published by the MHRD under the 'Private or Self-Financed Universities' category. In the NIRF Rankings announced on 11 June 2020, KIIT's rank improved to 44th from 50th in the Overall category, while it was ranked 24th in the rank for University.

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