Muzaffarpur Institute of Technology (commonly referred to as MIT, Muzaffarpur) is a

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Muzaffarpur Muzaffarpur () is a city located in Muzaffarpur district in the Tirhut region of the Indian state of Bihar. It serves as the headquarters of the Tirhut division, the Muzaffarpur district and the Muzaffarpur Railway District. It is the fourth ...

Bihar Bihar (; ) is a state in eastern India. It is the 2nd largest state by population in 2019, 12th largest by area of , and 14th largest by GDP in 2021. Bihar borders Uttar Pradesh to its west, Nepal to the north, the northern part of West ...

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. It is administered by the Department of Science and Technology, Bihar and funded by

Government of Bihar The Government of Bihar, known locally as the State Government, is the supreme governing authority of the Indian state of Bihar and its 9 divisions which consist of 38 districts . It consists of an executive, led by the Governor of Bihar, a ju ...

. It was founded in 1954, just after

attained independence in 1947. The foundation stone was laid by the first

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. It runs

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and

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programmes in

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and

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. The institute has a campus at

History

MIT (established with the name College of Civil Engineering, Muzaffarpur) began on 25 September 1954 with one discipline:

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. Committee recommended the establishment of higher technical institutions in India, along the lines of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and consulting from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign along with affiliated secondary institutions. The report urged that work should start with the speedy establishment of major institutions in the four quarters of the country with the ones in the east and the west to be set up immediately It was inaugurated by C.P.N. Singh,

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of then East Punjab (now

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and parts of

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). The first

laid the foundation of the main building on 21 April 1956.

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and

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disciplines were added in 1960 and the institute was renamed as Muzaffarpur Institute of Technology.

and Leather Technology were added in 1978 and 1986 respectively.

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and Electronics and Communication Engineering disciplines were introduced in 2001. In December 2008, the government of

declared that MIT would be developed into a model

Campus

The campus is in the north-west corner of

city, along

–

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road, and spread over an area of four kilometers from

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. The institute is flanked by the river Burhi Gandak on the north, a reservoir on the east,

–

road on the south, and the road network on the west. The campus is divided into following zones: * Academic Zone that includes department offices, lecture theaters, libraries * Student Residential Zone * Faculty and Staff Residential Zone * Student Recreational Area that includes

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ground,

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ground,

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courts. * AVH is the hall for the cultural activities. * It has also separate building for branches like Information technology building, electronic and communications building, lab building for physics and chemistry. The campus has student activity centre,

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named MIT Bal Niketan International School, branch of

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and a

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Academic departments

* Department of

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* Department of

* Department of Biomedical Robotics Engineering * Department of Leather Technology * Department of

* Department of

Mathematics Mathematics is an area of knowledge that includes the topics of numbers, formulas and related structures, shapes and the spaces in which they are contained, and quantities and their changes. These topics are represented in modern mathematics ...

* Department of

Physics Physics is the natural science that studies matter, its fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force. "Physical science is that department of knowledge which ...

* Department of

Chemistry Chemistry is the scientific study of the properties and behavior of matter. It is a natural science that covers the elements that make up matter to the compounds made of atoms, molecules and ions: their composition, structure, proper ...

* Department of

Humanities Humanities are academic disciplines that study aspects of human society and culture. In the Renaissance, the term contrasted with divinity and referred to what is now called classics, the main area of secular study in universities at t ...

Academics

Admission

From 2019 onwards, admissions will be based on national

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merit list. Students who want to enroll must appear at the exam that is conducted by National Testing Agency. Earlier Undergraduate admissions were done through the Bihar Combined Entrance Competitive Examination Board). The entrance examination was held in two stages: First stage was the screening test or preliminary test. The screened candidates had to appear in the main examination (second stage). Based on the merit list in the second stage, successful candidates were allotted seats in different engineering colleges of Bihar. Admission to postgraduate programmes is based upon score and rank in

Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering The Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) is an examination conducted in India that primarily tests the comprehensive understanding of various undergraduate subjects in engineering and science for admission into the Masters Program and ...

(GATE) conducted by IITs/IISc.

University affiliation

Formerly it was affiliated to BABASAHEB BHIMRAO AMBEDKAR BIHAR UNIVERSITY (BRABU) But Later from 2010 MIT is affiliated to

Aryabhatta Knowledge University Aryabhatta Knowledge University (AKU Patna) is a collegiate public state university located in Mithapur, Patna, Bihar, India. It was named after the Indian astronomer Aryabhatta. Apart from a few notable exceptions, AKU has authority over tec ...

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Degree programs

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech)

MIT has the following branches at the undergraduate

Bachelor of Technology A Bachelor of Technology (Latin ''Baccalaureus Technologiae'', commonly abbreviated as B.Tech. or BTech; with honours as B.Tech. (Hons.)) is an undergraduate academic degree conferred after the completion of a three to five-year program of st ...

level. The number of seats available in each discipline is given in parentheses: *

(60) *

(60) * Electronics and Communication Engineering (40) *

(40) * Leather Technology (30)

Bachelor of Pharmacy (B.Pharm.)

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(60)

Master of Technology

At the postgraduate

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level MIT has the following branches: * Machine Design (under the department of

) (18 full-time + 4 part-time) * Thermal Engineering (under the department of

) (18 full-time + 5 part-time) * Manufacturing Technology (under the department of

) (18 full-time ) Facilities for Ph.D. research exist in all departments.

Student life

Hostels

There are seven boys hostels having a capacity to accommodate 1400 students and one girls hostel (the Golden Jubilee Girls Hostel) with a capacity to accommodate 200 students.hostel -01(damodar hostel) was constructed in 1952 before college main building was constructed. Guest Houses for parents and others are also located in the campus.

MIT Sports Club

The sports club has been functioning since 1954 and provides facilities for

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Lawn Tennis Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball cove ...

Badminton Badminton is a racquet sport played using racquets to hit a shuttlecock across a net. Although it may be played with larger teams, the most common forms of the game are "singles" (with one player per side) and "doubles" (with two players p ...

Volleyball Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Sum ...

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Table- Tennis and Indore games. But since 2000 the sports club became inactive and unofficially closed. Later on, in 2017 a group of students from 2K15 batch has relaunched the platform of sports in this college as MIT SPORTS CLUB. The club organizes the institute's annual sports, an Inter-college sports meet and severals of lawn tennis, badminton, chess, etc. tournament every year at MIT sports grounds. Inter college and Interstates tournaments held every year.

Other

Junoon

The Start-up cell in MIT, Muzaffarpur is established on 16 January 2018.www.mitmuzaffarpur.org
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SIRTDO

The Small Industries Research, Training and Development Organization (SIRTDO) was established at MIT in 1976 with financial support from the government of

with the objective to encourage entrepreneurship among MIT students. The organization organizes orientation programmes with the collaboration of other national level institutes. SIRTDO acts as incubation center for new business ventures by providing facilities at the campus and provides training to the entrepreneurs in product design, development and management, marketing and finance.

References

External links

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BCECE Board website

Aryabhatta Knowledge University website

DST, Bihar website
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