Unique focus brings out the best in KIIT students
MUSCAT: With opportunities that cover skill development, top quality placement, study abroad, interaction with world’s leading academicians and researchers, including Nobel Laureates, sports and extra-curricular activities, KIIT offers much more than merely academic qualification. The institution is proud of its diverse human resources represented by over 27,000 students enrolled in 100 plus academic programmes. They come from all corners of India and over 45 countries because of high brand value of KIIT.
Skills, aptitude and interests of the student community is equally diverse and KIIT, with its focus on all round development, is committed to bring out the best in each and every one of them by providing them the best possible exposure in their chosen field. Such unique focus has made its students high achievers.
Established in 1992 and opened five years later as a multi-disciplinary institute, KIIT University is today one of the most prestigious universities of India. Its commitment to teaching excellence led to the grant of university status under Section 3 of UGC Act, 1956 in 2004 and ‘A’ category university status in 2015 by the Ministry of Human Resources Development, Govt. of India. It is also accredited in ‘A’ Grade by NAAC and ‘Tier 1’ (Washington Accord) by NBA.
KIIT is a multi-campus university. Its 23 campuses span 25 sq. km. and have a built up area of 12 million sq. ft. Each stream of education has a self-contained independent campus replete with wi-fi multimedia air conditioned classrooms, video conferencing, state-of-the-art laboratories, close circuit cameras, seminar halls, auditorium and open air theatres. There are separate hostels for boys and girls with roundthe-clock wireless internet. All the hostels have attached canteens serving good quality Indian and continental food. In addition, there are 15 food courts specialising in cuisines from different parts of the world.
KIIT’s cosmopolitan campus is packed with excellent facilities to support individual student’s interest and aptitude. Students of KIIT get full freedom to express their creativity, skill and interest through more than 25 well-organised students’ societies, specialising in fields like automobile, aeronautics, robotics, marketing, finance, fashion, quizzing, music & dance, photography & painting, etc. Faculty and staff proactively encourage them to pursue their interest and excel.
Student community here is highly disciplined due to student friendly governance system and best practices followed by KIIT since its inception. Best practices like choice based credit system, effective tutor-mentor programme, close interaction with the industry and promotion of students’ research and innovation as well as value additions like implementation of SAP supports the culture of excellence.
Above all, students draw motivation from the life of sacrifice and dedication to humanity of Prof. Achyuta Samanta, who converted his childhood struggle and hardship into his strength and single-handedly established KIIT and Kalinga Institute of Social Science (KISS), a free residential institute for 25,000 tribal students, with only Rs5,000. Students see him as a role model, drawing happiness and imbibing the values of ethical conduct, morality and compassion.