Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology

Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology, formerly KIIT University, is a Premier deemed university located in Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India. It primarily emphasizes on higher education and research in engineering and science.

 KIIT Bhubaneswar is a private university established in 1992 as a training institute and got university status in the year 1997. KIIT is also accredited with NAAC A++ grade. KIIT is ranked 16^th in Indian Universities, 12^th in Law, 39^th in Engineering, and 29^th in the overall category under NIRF Rankings 2023. Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology has also achieved a rank band of 601-800 and got the 6^th position among Indian Universities under The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2024. More than 40,000 students are studying in KIIT. The university has 200+ academic programs.

KIIT, though a very young institution has performed incredibly well in the rankings conducted by various national and international associations. Founded in 1992 and opened five years later as a Centre for higher learning, its commitment to teaching excellence led to the grant of university status under Section 3 of UGC Act, 1956 by the Ministry of Human Resources Development, Govt. of India in 2004, within only seven years of its inception. It holds a Limca Record for this accomplishment.