Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra (BIT, Mesra) is a government funded technical institute (GFTI) situated at Ranchi, Jharkhand, India. It was declared as a deemed university under Section 3 of the UGC Act. The institute was included under Section 12B of the UGC Act, 1956, in November 2023.

History

The Birla Institute of Technology was established in 1955 at Mesra by industrialist and philanthropist B. M. Birla. The institute was affiliated with Patna University until 1960, and then with Ranchi University. In 1986 BIT was elevated to the status of a 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 and

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ry, in 1964. The Small Industries Research and Development Organization (SIRDO) was set up in 1970 to support small manufacturing enterprises managed by graduates of BIT. Companies created from this concept include Meditron and Alcast. This idea was recognized by the Department of Science and Technology,

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, which spread the concept to other institutes such as IITs, under the concept name 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. For financial support, BIT set up the SIDBI Centre for Innovation and Incubation (SCII) by an arrangement with Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) to provide funds for a limited period of time to select new entrepreneurs, start up companies, and technology based organisations. BIT Mesra has a PARAM 10000

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at the core of its IT infrastructure.

Campus

* Built up covered area exceeding * Golden Jubilee auditorium as well as a Mini auditorium * PARAM 10000 super computer * 100 Mbit/s LAN Connection in all BIT hostels rooms(1Gbit/s in newly built floors) *R&D building housing computer and scientific labs. *A three storied library. There is a separate internet facility inside the library in order to let students read IEEE and other journals * Lord Shiva temple

Central facilities

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

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, comprising representatives of the Ministry of Human Resource Development,

, the UGC, the State Government, the

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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 States and union territories of India, state in East India, 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 ...

is the chancellor of the institute. The Technical Council headed by vice chancellor decides the academic policy of the institute.

Departments

BIT Mesra has the following departments * Architecture and Planning * Bioengineering and Biotechnology * Centre for Food Engineering and Technology * Centre for Quantitative Economics and Data Science *

Chemical Engineering Chemical engineering is an engineering field which deals with the study of the operation and design of chemical plants as well as methods of improving production. Chemical engineers develop economical commercial processes to convert raw materials ...

Chemistry Chemistry is the scientific study of the properties and behavior of matter. It is a physical science within the natural sciences that studies the chemical elements that make up matter and chemical compound, compounds made of atoms, molecules a ...

Civil Engineering Civil engineering is a regulation and licensure in engineering, professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including public works such as roads ...

* Computer Science and Engineering *

Electrical and Electronics Engineering Electrical engineering is an engineering discipline concerned with the study, design, and application of equipment, devices, and systems that use electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism. It emerged as an identifiable occupation in the l ...

* Electronics and Communication Engineering * Humanities and

Social Sciences Social science (often rendered in the plural as the social sciences) is one of the branches of science, devoted to the study of society, societies and the Social relation, relationships among members within those societies. The term was former ...

Management Management (or managing) is the administration of organizations, whether businesses, nonprofit organizations, or a Government agency, government bodies through business administration, Nonprofit studies, nonprofit management, or the political s ...

Mathematics Mathematics is a field of study that discovers and organizes methods, Mathematical theory, theories and theorems that are developed and Mathematical proof, proved for the needs of empirical sciences and mathematics itself. There are many ar ...

Mechanical Engineering Mechanical engineering is the study of physical machines and mechanism (engineering), mechanisms that may involve force and movement. It is an engineering branch that combines engineering physics and engineering mathematics, mathematics principl ...

* Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technology *

Physics Physics is the scientific study of matter, its Elementary particle, 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 whi ...

* Production and Industrial Engineering *

Remote Sensing Remote sensing is the acquisition of information about an physical object, object or phenomenon without making physical contact with the object, in contrast to in situ or on-site observation. The term is applied especially to acquiring inform ...

* Space Engineering and Rocketry

University Polytechnic

The University Polytechnic was established in 2001, as a joint venture of the Department of Welfare, Government of

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.

Deoghar Extension Centre

In order to expand BIT further across the state, the Jharkhand government asked the institute to establish an Extension Centre at Deoghar, Jharkhand. A MoU was signed between the Institute and the Government of Jharkhand. In October 2007, Birla Institute of Technology extension Deoghar began to operate. As per the provisions of the MoU it was decided that 50% of spaces would be for students acquiring eligible qualifications from Institutions located in Jharkhand while the remaining 50% would be for students from other states of the country. Admission has been through JEE Main with Central Counseling conducted by the Central Counseling 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, laid the foundation stone of the institute in December 2005. The institute started its academic programme during the 2006–07 academic year.

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 its 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

Rankings

Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra was ranked at 401-450 band in the recent 2024 QS World Rankings (Asian Category). Among engineering colleges, Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra ranked 16th by '' India Today'' in National Institutional Ranking Framework and fourth among private engineering colleges by '' Outlook India'' in 2024. The Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra was ranked 48th among Engineering Colleges in India by the National Institutional Ranking Framework in the 2024 rankings.

Notable alumni

* Ajit Kumar Mehta, former Member of Indian Parliament (

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) from Samastipur Lok Sabha constituency. * Madhavan Chandradathan, Director, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC) * Shree K. Nayar, T. C. Chang Professor, Computer Science,

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* Ashish Vaswani, AI researcher, co-author of " Attention Is All You Need" * Amit Chaudhary, COO, Lenskart * Sanjay Nayak, CEO, Tejas Networks * Deven Sharma, Indian Businessman, President of Standard and Poors * Hemant Soren, Jharkhand CM from 2019 to 2024 and from 2013 to 2014. * Karan Bajaj, Indian technology entrepreneur, founder of WhiteHat Junior. * V. Vaidyanathan CEO of IDFC First Bank

References

External links

Official website
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