KIIT meaning in Academic & Science ?

Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT), formerly KIIT University, is a private deemed to be university located in Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India. It primarily emphasizes on higher education and research in engineering and science. It currently offers 19 different programmes in B.Tech and various other programmes. The admissions for B.Tech programmes are purely based on merit as per the results in KIITEE exam.

It was founded in 1992 as Industrial Training Institute in Bhubaneswar. In 2017 it was renamed back as 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'.

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. In 2019 KIIT was recognised as Institute of Eminence by the Ministry of HRD, Government of India. It has been granted Tier-1 accrediation by the National Board of Accreditation.