Heritage Institute of Technology, popularly known as HITK or HIT is a self-financed institute in the state of the West Bengal. Heritage Institute of Technology is ranked one of the best amongst engineering colleges in Eastern India.The campus is situated in the southern fringes of

Kolkata Kolkata (, or , ; also known as Calcutta , the official name until 2001) is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal, on the eastern bank of the Hooghly River west of the border with Bangladesh. It is the primary business, comme ...

. It is affiliated to

Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology (MAKAUT), formerly known as West Bengal University of Technology (WBUT), is a public state university located in Kalyani, West Bengal, India. It is funded completely by the Government of West B ...

kolkata.

History

Heritage Institute of Technology was set up on the eastern fringes of

in 2001 by a group of industrialists hailing from the flourishing

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and related industries around

, and some public figures. The foundation behind the growth of HITK is the Kalyan Bharti Trust. To meet the demand for technical manpower and in view of fiscal constraints at the governmental level, the Kalyan Bharti Trust supplemented the state government's efforts in setting up new engineering colleges by establishing the Heritage Institute of Technology in September 2000.

Departments in Faculty of Technology and Management

The institute offers one undergraduate course (B. Tech.) and three graduate courses (M. Tech., MBA and MCA). All courses are approved by the All India Council for Technical Education AICTE,

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and the Department of Higher Education,

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. Since its inception, it has been affiliated to the

West Bengal University of Technology Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology (MAKAUT), formerly known as West Bengal University of Technology (WBUT), is a public state university located in Kalyani, West Bengal, India. It is funded completely by the Government of West Be ...

. The institute offers undergraduate B. Tech. course in the following engineering disciplines: * Applied Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering *

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* Computer Science and Business Systems * Computer Science and Engineering (Data Science) * Computer Science and Engineering (AI & ML) *

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* Electronics and Communication Engineering *

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The graduate school offers full-time two-year

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(M. Tech.) degree in the following disciplines: * Applied Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering *

* Electronics and Communication Engineering *

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* Renewable Energy The institute also offers full-time two-year

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degree. Admission to the undergraduate B.Tech. courses is done through the

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(WBJEE) and

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(JEE-MAIN).

Student exchange

The institute signed an MoU with

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(

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) for a

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programme It has signed an MoU with the College of Natural Science,

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Ranking

The

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(NIRF) ranked it in between 201-250 among engineering colleges in 2021 . It was ranked 150 and 154 in 2019 and 2020 respectively, by NIRF

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(NAAC) graded "A". Accredited by National Board of Accreditation (NBA).

References

External links

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