Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra (BIT Mesra) is a public deemed institute in
Jharkhand
Jharkhand (; ; ) is a state in eastern India. The state shares its border with the states of West Bengal to the east, Chhattisgarh to the west, Uttar Pradesh to the northwest, Bihar to the north and Odisha to the south. It has an area of . It ...
, India. It was established in 1955 at
Mesra,
Ranchi
Ranchi (, ) is the capital of the Indian state of Jharkhand. Ranchi was the centre of the Jharkhand movement, which called for a separate state for the tribal regions of South Bihar, northern Odisha, western West Bengal and the eastern area ...
, by the industrialist
B. M. Birla. The institute was later headed by
G. P. Birla, and the present chairman of the board of governors is
C. K. Birla
Chandra Kant Birla is an Indian industrialist and philanthropist. He is chairman of the CK Birla Group, a conglomerate operating across home and building products, automotive and technology, and healthcare and education.
Career
In addition to ...
. It was declared as a
deemed university under Section 3 of the
UGC Act.
Every year students are admitted based on merit assessed by All India Rank (AIR) in
JEE-Main-CSAB,
GATE
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and
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The e ...
for its various courses.
History
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The Birla Institute of Technology was established in 1955 at Mesra by industrialist and philanthropist
B. M. Birla. The institute was affiliated to
Patna University
Patna University is a public state university in Patna, Bihar, India. It was established on 1 October 1917 during the British Raj. It is the first university in Bihar and the seventh oldest university in the Indian subcontinent in the modern er ...
until 1960, and then to Ranchi University. In 1986 BIT was elevated to the status of
deemed university under section 3 of the ''
University Grants Commission Act, 1956''.
BIT was the first institute in India to set up a department of
space engineering
Aerospace engineering is the primary field of engineering concerned with the development of aircraft and spacecraft. It has two major and overlapping branches: aeronautical engineering and astronautical engineering. Avionics engineering is sim ...
and
rocket
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ry, in 1964.
The
Small Industries Research and Development Organization (SIRDO) was set up in 1970 as a launching pad for small manufacturing enterprises managed by graduates of BIT. Companies created from this concept include Meditron and Alcast. This idea was appreciated by
Department of Science and Technology,
Government of India
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; and was spread to other institutes such as
IITs
The Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are central government owned Institute of technology, public technical institutes located across India. They are under the ownership of the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Ministry of Educat ...
by the Government with a concept named Science and Technological Entrepreneurs Park (STEP). The first STEP was approved and located in BIT Mesra. The entrepreneurship development cell was founded in 2007 and is run by the students. To add financial strength to this effort, BIT has set up SIDBI Centre for Innovation and Incubation (SCII) by an arrangement with
Small Industries Development Bank of India
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(SIDBI) to provide funds for a limited period of time to new entrepreneurs, start up companies, and technology based organisations in areas of interest with the faculty of the institute.
Bit Mesra has a
PARAM 10000
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supercomputer
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at the core of its IT infrastructure.
Campus
Central facilities
Central
The CAD Laboratory is a central facility of the institute where all users – undergraduate and postgraduate students, research scholars and faculty members – can work with design and analysis software.
Central Computing Facilities (CCF)
The maintenance and upkeep of the CCF is done by the Department of Computer Science and Engineering; however the CCF is used by students and staff from all departments of the institute.
The PARAM 10000
Supercomputer
A supercomputer is a computer with a high level of performance as compared to a general-purpose computer. The performance of a supercomputer is commonly measured in floating-point operations per second ( FLOPS) instead of million instructions ...
was gifted to the Institute by
C-DAC
The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) is an Government of India, Indian autonomous scientific society, operating under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology.
History
CDAC was created in November 1987, init ...
i It supports projects that require parallel processing and multi processor capabilities.
Central Instrumentation Facility (CIF)
The Central Instrumentation Facility (CIF) was established in 2006 under the Technical Education Quality Improvement Programme, funded by the World Bank and Government of
Jharkhand
Jharkhand (; ; ) is a state in eastern India. The state shares its border with the states of West Bengal to the east, Chhattisgarh to the west, Uttar Pradesh to the northwest, Bihar to the north and Odisha to the south. It has an area of . It ...
, to provide instrumentation facilities for advanced research, to faculty.
Central Library
The Central Library was established in 1955. It has print and electronic resources in the fields of science and technology. The collection includes 10,000 online journals, 100 print journals, 113,000 books, 2500 CDs, 60 audiocassettes and 4000 project reports.
Organisation and administration
Governance
BIT functions under the control of a
Board of Governors
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, comprising representatives of the
Ministry of Human Resource Development
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,
Government of India
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, the
UGC, the State Government, the
Chancellor
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, the
A.I.C.T.E., the Hindustan Charity Trust and the Institute Faculty.
CK Birla is the chairman of the board of governors. The governor of the state of
Jharkhand
Jharkhand (; ; ) is a state in eastern India. The state shares its border with the states of West Bengal to the east, Chhattisgarh to the west, Uttar Pradesh to the northwest, Bihar to the north and Odisha to the south. It has an area of . It ...
is the chancellor of the institute. The Technical Council headed by vice chancellor decides the academic policy of the institute.
University Polytechnic
The University Polytechnic was established in 2001, as a joint venture of the Department of Welfare, Government of
Jharkhand
Jharkhand (; ; ) is a state in eastern India. The state shares its border with the states of West Bengal to the east, Chhattisgarh to the west, Uttar Pradesh to the northwest, Bihar to the north and Odisha to the south. It has an area of . It ...
and BIT, Mesra, to impart Diploma level technical education amongst the youths of Jharkhand. Its campus is located close to the National Highway 33 in the vicinity of the BIT Main campus on the outskirts of Ranchi.
Centres in India and offshore
BIT has established extension centers in cities within the country, in Allahabad, Jaipur, Kolkata, Noida, Patna, Deoghar and Lalpur and overseas, in Muscat and Ras al-Khaimah.
Allahabad Extension Centre
The Birla Institute of Technology, Allahabad Extension Centre was established in January 1998. It has five academic departments namely Department of Computer Science, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering and Department of Mechanical Engineering. The centre has a library with a large number of
books and technical journals. A digital library for on-line access of books and journals has also been provided for staff and students.
Deoghar Extension Centre
The Jharkhand government, willing to spread BIT further across the state, made a request to the institute to establish an Extension Centre at Deoghar, Jharkhand. A MoU was signed between the Institute and the Government of Jharkhand. Thus,
Birla Institute of Technology extension Deoghar commenced functioning in October 2007. As per the provisions of the MoU it was decided that 50% seats would be for students acquiring eligible qualifications from Institutions located in Jharkhand while the remaining 50% would be for students from the other states of the country. Admission has been through
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with Central Counselling conducted by the Central Counselling Board.
Patna Extension Centre
Birla Institute of Technology, Patna Campus was established in 2006, on the initiative of Govt. of Bihar. The institute came into existence by Public-Private Partnership (PPP) mode under flagship management of BIT Mesra. The Chief Minister of Bihar
Nitish Kumar
Nitish Kumar (born 1 March 1951) is an Indian politician, who is serving as Chief Minister of Bihar since 22 February 2015, having previous held the office from 2005 to 2014 and for a short period in 2000. The leader of the Janata Dal (Unite ...
, laid the foundation stone of the institute in December 2005. The institute started academic programme from the session 2006–07.
Birla Institute of Scientific Research
The Birla Institute of Scientific Research (BISR) is a sister concern of Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi which hosts an auditorium and a planetarium in its campus in Jaipur. The institute was established for promoting science education through Museum and Planetarium.
This institute has a state of the art Bioinformatics Centre in Department of Biotechnology and Bioinformatics and a Remote Sensing Department.
Academics
International Relations
* BIT Mesra is a member of the EAGER – NetWiC Project of the ASIA LINK programme of the
European Commission
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for establishing an academic network of Higher Education in the field of
wireless
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and
mobile communication
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between five partner universities. An international centre for wireless and mobile communication has been created in the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, in co-operation with
Aalborg University
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(Denmark),
Delft University of Technology
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(Netherlands),
Università di Roma Tor Vergata (Italy), and
Institut Teknologi,
Bandung
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(Indonesia). A
double-degree ME programme in
Software Defined Radio (SDR) has been jointly developed by the centre and the Centre for Teleinfrastructure,
Aalborg University
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, Denmark.
* The institute has a student exchange agreement with
Purdue University
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in the United States.
* The institute has an agreement with the
University of Leeds
, mottoeng = And knowledge will be increased
, established = 1831 – Leeds School of Medicine1874 – Yorkshire College of Science1884 - Yorkshire College1887 – affiliated to the federal Victoria University1904 – University of Leeds
, ...
in the United Kingdom for the issuance of
dual degrees, a
Bachelor of Engineering
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In the UK, a Bache ...
from BIT and a
Master of Engineering
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International variations
Australia
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from Leeds in the fields of electrical, electronic and production engineering.
* BIT Mesra is one of the two Asian educational partners of
University of New Brunswick
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,
Saint John, Canada in the field of business administration.
* BIT Mesra is one of the five Indian universities which are partners in the French "n+i" network. The "n+i" network is a consortium of 70 French engineering postgraduate schools (French: Grandes Ecoles d’Ingénieurs françaises) that have mutualised their actions in the field of international cooperation.
* BIT Mesra is an educational partner in conducting an international PhD in
computer science
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financed by the
Ministry of Education, Universities and Research
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, Italy. The other partners are
University of Udine
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(Italy),
University of Siena
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(Italy), Institute of Information Science and Technologies-Italian National Research Council (Italy),
Polytechnic University of Valencia
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(Spain),
University of Nice Sophia Antipolis
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(France),
INRIA, Sophia Antipolis (France), B.M Birla Science Centre (India),
C-DAC Hyderabad (India) and
Institute of Mathematical Sciences (India).
* BIT Mesra is among five leading science and technology institutions in India eligible for
Cargill
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Global Scholars Program working with the
Institute of International Education
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.
National collaborations
BIT offers programs in collaboration with Indian institutes and industry.
* BIT Mesra has a
memorandum of understanding with
which allows candidates selected in
special class railway apprentice
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course to undergo a four-year training programme in Mechanical Engineering at BIT Mesra.
*
Institution of Engineers offers an ME programme for practising engineers to its graduates and corporate members in selected engineering disciplines in collaboration with BIT Mesra.
* The Institute of Technology and Management (ITM),
Mumbai
Mumbai (, ; also known as Bombay — the official name until 1995) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra and the ''de facto'' financial centre of India. According to the United Nations, as of 2018, Mumbai is the second- ...
has started a collaborative research program leading to the award of PhD Degree in Management with BIT Mesra.
* BIT Mesra conducts a six-month post-graduate program in management and insurance (PGPMI) in association with
ICICI Prudential Life Insurance
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.
* Lotus Clinical Research Academy,
Bangalore
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conducts 2-year
Master of Pharmacy
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course in
Clinical Research
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, M.S. in
Clinical Research
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and
Pharmacovigilance
Term Given By Tushar Sharma (UPES Batch 2025)
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and 1-year
Postgraduate Diploma
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course in
Bioanalytical Techniques, in academic collaboration with BIT Mesra.
* Department of Space Engineering & Rocketry has initiated collaborations with
Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre
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,
Defence Research and Development Laboratory
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,
Research Centre Imarat
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,
High Energy Materials Research Laboratory
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,
Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre
The Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre (LPSC) is a research and development centre functioning under Indian Space Research Organisation. It has two units located at Valiamala, in Thiruvananthapuram of Kerala, and Bengaluru of Karnataka. LPSC is a ...
,
Aeronautical Development Agency
The Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA) under Department of Defence Research and Development (DR&D) of India's Ministry of Defence was established at Bangalore, in 1984 to oversee the development of the nation's Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) p ...
and
Hindustan Aeronautics Limited
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. It has been recognised as a Centre for Training of the Scientists from DRDO and ISRO.
* Department of Applied Chemistry established Research Collaboration with
Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research
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, Kalpakkam, India,
ICMR Institute, Virus Unit, Kolkata,
IIT Guwahati
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, Assam and National Centre For Cell Science, Pune.
* Department of Mechanical Engineering has been identified by National Program for Materials and Smart Structures (NPMASS), an initiative by GOI, to establish a Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS) Design Centre.
* Department of Remote Sensing & Geoinformatics of
BIT Mesra
Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra (BIT Mesra) is a public deemed institute in Jharkhand, India. It was established in 1955 at Mesra, Ranchi, Mesra, Ranchi, by the industrialist Birla family, B. M. Birla. The institute was later headed by Ga ...
is selected for interpretation of
Chandrayaan-1
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data by SAC
ISRO
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and
Physical Research Laboratory
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along with
IIT Bombay
The Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay or IITB) is a public research university and technical institute in Powai, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. It is considered as one of the best engineering universities in India and is top ranked ...
and
IIT Roorkee
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in the country. Experience gained in this mission will be used in future
Chandrayaan-2
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and
Mangalyaan
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mission.
Rankings
Among engineering colleges, Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra ranked 17th by ''
India Today
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'' in 2020,
[ and fifth among private engineering colleges by '']Outlook India
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History and profile
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'' in 2022.[ It was ranked 38th among engineering colleges in India by the ]National Institutional Ranking Framework
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(NIRF) in 2020, 66th among universities and 85th overall. NIRF has also ranked BIT Mesra 16th in the pharmacy ranking and 58th in the management ranking.
Notable alumni
* Madhavan Chandradathan
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, Director, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre
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(VSSC)
* Shree K. Nayar, T. C. Chang Professor, Computer Science, Columbia University
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*Anjan Lahiri
Anjan Lahiri was the CEO of Birlasoft, the global IT services company of the CK Birla Group.
Education
Lahiri is an alumnus of the Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, where he earned a Bachelor of Technology degree in electrical and electronics ...
, Founder, Mindtree
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* Sanjeeva Kumar Singh, Indian Archer recipient of Arjuna Award
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and Dronacharya Award
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* Kannan Gopinathan
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, Former IAS and social activist
* Karan Bajaj
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Bajaj is also the auth ...
, CEO & Founder, WhiteHat Jr
* Amit Mahto Amit Mahto is an Indian politician and the member of Jharkhand Legislative Assembly from Silli and won Vidhan Sabha election in 2014. He was a member of Jharkhand Mukti Morcha and considered the face of youth in Jharkhand Political Party. Former JMM ...
, Indian Politician
* Amit Chaudhary, COO, Lenskart
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Lenskart is ...
* Sanjay Nayak, CEO, Tejas Networks
See also
* Birla Institute of Technology International Centre
Birla Institute of Technology International Centre (BITIC), Bahrain ( ar, مركز معهد بيرلا العالمي للتكنولوجيا، البحرين) is the first international centre of Birla Institute of Technology, located in Budaiya ...
* Waljat Colleges of Applied Sciences
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* CK Birla Group
CK Birla Group, is an Indian multinational conglomerate named after Chandra Kant Birla, headquartered in the Birla Tower in Barakhamba road, New Delhi, India. Earlier the group was led by industrialists - BM Birla and GD Birla (Padma Vibhu ...
References
External links
Official website
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Engineering colleges in Jharkhand
Universities and colleges in Ranchi
Deemed universities in India
All India Council for Technical Education
CK Birla Group
Educational institutions established in 1955
1955 establishments in Bihar
Business schools in Jharkhand
Jain universities and colleges
Universities and colleges in Jharkhand