Heritage Institute of Technology, Kolkata


Heritage Institute of Technology, popularly known as HITK or HIT, is a private autonomous engineering college in Anandapur, Kolkata, near the East Kolkata Township, West Bengal, India. It is affiliated to Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology, Kolkata. It is amongst the top 5 Engineering colleges in West Bengal.

History

Heritage Institute of Technology was set up on the eastern fringes of Kolkata in 2001 by a group of industrialists hailing from the flourishing information technology, electronics and related industries around Kolkata, and some public figures. The foundation behind the growth of HITK is the Kalyan Bharti Trust. To meet the demand for technical manpower and in view of fiscal constraints at the governmental level, the Kalyan Bharti Trust supplemented the state government’s efforts in setting up new engineering colleges by establishing the Heritage Institute of Technology in September 2000.

Campus

Heritage Institute of Technology is built on the Heritage campus, in Anandapur on the southeastern fringes of Kolkata covering 70 acres. Along with HITK, the campus encompasses The Heritage School, Kolkata, The Heritage College, Kolkata and The Heritage Academy, Kolkata. It is a 10-minute drive from East Metropolitan Bypass. The nearest airport is Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport at Dum Dum, Kolkata.

Departments in Faculty of Technology and Management

The institute offers one undergraduate course and three graduate courses. All courses are approved by the All India Council for Technical Education AICTE, Government of India and the Department of Higher Education, Government of West Bengal. Since its inception, it has been affiliated to the West Bengal University of Technology, Kolkata.
The institute offers undergraduate B. Tech. course in the following engineering disciplines:
The graduate school offers full-time two-year Master of Technology degree in the following disciplines:
Admission to the undergraduate B.Tech. courses is done through the West Bengal Joint Entrance Examination and All India Engineering Entrance Examination,

Student exchange

The institute signed an MoU with New Jersey Institute of Technology for a student exchange programme
It has signed an MoU with the College of Natural Science, Sungkyunkwan University.

Ranking

The National Institutional Ranking Framework ranked it 154 among engineering colleges in 2020 and 150 in 2019

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