It was founded in 1992 as Industrial Training Institute in Bhubaneswar with a seed revenue of ₹5000 (US$66.8).[10] It is part of KIIT Society which is estimated to be worth ₹10,000 Crores (US$1.3 billion) as of 2020.[11]
History
KIIT was established in 1992 as an Industrial Training Institute with only twelve students and two faculty.[12] This institution was the brainchild of Achyuta Samanta who had envisioned a profound center of learning in India and so pursued to lay the foundation of KIIT. In 1997, the School of Technology and the School of Computer Application was established. In 2004 it was conferred the status of deemed university and renamed KIIT University.[13]
The KIIT School of Biotechnology, School of Rural Management, School of Medicine and KIIT Law School were started in 2007.[14]
In 2017, the institute was renamed back Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology, following a request from all institutes deemed to be universities not to use "university" in their title.[15]
Campus
The institute is located in clusters of 12 urban campuses, totalling around 200 acres (0.81km2) in the temple city of Bhubaneswar.[16]
Central library of the institute
Academics
KIIT has 30,000 students.[12][17] Each academic program is functioning in different independent campuses.
In India, it was ranked 42nd among engineering colleges by the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) in 2022,[32] 20th among all universities[32] and 34th overall.[32] NIRF also ranked it 48th in the management ranking,[32] 30th in medical ranking[32] and 11th in law ranking.[32] KIIT ranked 1st in India in the 2020 ARIIA Ranking published by the MHRD under the 'Private or Self-Financed Universities' category.[33] In the NIRF Rankings announced on 11 June 2020, KIIT's rank improved to 44th from 50th in the Overall category, while it was ranked 24th in the rank for University.[34]
