| Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology | |
| Native Name Lang: | or |
| Motto: | Sā Vidyā Yā Vimuktayē (Sanskrit) |
| Mottoeng: | Knowledge is that which liberates |
| Chancellor: | Ashok Kumar Parija[1] |
| Vice Chancellor: | Saranjit Singh[2] |
| Students: | 40000(Undergraduates and Postgraduates) |
| Nickname: | KIITians |
| Faculty: | 3,500[3] |
| Country: | India |
Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT), formerly KIIT University, is a private deemed university[5] located in Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India.[6] 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.[7]
It was founded in 1992 as Industrial Training Institute in Bhubaneswar with a seed revenue of ₹5000 (US$66.8).[8] In 2017 it was renamed Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology following the UGC request to drop "University" from the name for all the institutes granted the status of 'Deemed to be Universities'.[9] It is part of KIIT Society which is estimated to be worth ₹10,000 Crores (US$1.3 billion) as of 2020.[10]
It was declared as deemed university in 2004 by the Ministry of HRD, Government of India and also was conferred with Category A status in 2014 by the Government of India.[11]
KIIT was established in 1992 as an Industrial Training Institute with only twelve students and two faculty.[12] This institution was the brainchild of Achyuta Samanta, C R Mishra, P K Mishra who had envisioned a profound center of learning in India and so pursued to lay the foundation of KIIT. 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.[13]
The KIIT School of Biotechnology, School of Rural Management, School of Medicine and KIIT Law School were started in 2007.[14]
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.[15] In 2019, KIIT was recognised as an Institute of Eminence by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD).[16]
The institute is in twelve landscaped and eco-friendly campuses of 200acres in the temple city of Bhubaneswar.[17]
KIIT has 27,000+ students.[18] Each academic program is functioning in different independent campuses.
KIIT was accredited by National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) with an A++ grade with a score of 3.48 out of 4 points.[19] KIIT is a member of Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU).[20]
The institute also grants scholarships to meritorious and needy students every year. Among them, Pradyumna Bal Memorial Scholarship is awarded to two economically challenged but meritorious students and they are provided completely free education along with ancillary expenses.[21]
| Type: | University |
| Qs A 2023: | 401–500 |
| The W 2023: | 601–800 |
| Thes A 2022: | 201–250 |
| Thes E 2022: | 201–250 |
| Nirf E 2021: | 42 |
| Nirf U 2021: | 20 |
| Nirf O 2021: | 34 |
| Nirf B 2021: | 48 |
| Nirf M 2021: | 30 |
| Nirf L 2021: | 11 |
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.[22] KIIT ranked 1st in India in the 2020 ARIIA Ranking published by the MHRD under the 'Private or Self-Financed Universities' category.[23] 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.[24]