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Motto | Sā Vidyā Yā Vimuktayē (Sanskrit) |
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Motto in English | Knowledge is that which liberates |
Type | Deemed university |
Established | 1992 |
Founder | Achyuta Samanta |
Affiliation | UGC, NAAC, ACU |
Chancellor | Ashok Kumar Parija[1] |
Vice-Chancellor | Saranjit Singh[2] |
Academic staff | 3,500[3] |
Students | 40000(Undergraduates and Postgraduates) |
Location | , , India 20°21′10″N 85°49′10″E / 20.35278°N 85.81944°E |
Campus | 6,117 acres (24.75 km2),[4] Urban, 6,117 acres (2,475 ha) |
Nickname | KIITians |
Website | kiit |
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.[8][11]
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