Heritage Institute of Technology, Kolkata

Heritage Institute of Technology, popularly known as HITK or HIT is a self-financed institute in the state of the West Bengal. The campus is situated on the southern fringes of Kolkata. It is affiliated with Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology Kolkata.

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.

Departments in Faculty of Technology and Management
The institute offers one undergraduate course (B. Tech.) and three graduate courses (M. Tech., MBA, and MCA). 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:'''
 * Applied Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering
 * Biotechnology
 * Chemical Engineering
 * Civil Engineering
 * Computer Science and Business Systems
 * Computer Science and Engineering (Data Science)
 * Computer Science and Engineering (Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning)
 * Computer Science and Engineering
 * Electrical Engineering
 * Electronics and Communication Engineering
 * Information Technology
 * Mechanical Engineering

The graduate school offers full-time two-year Master of Technology (M. Tech.) degree in the following disciplines: The institute also offers full-time two-year Master of Computer Application degree.
 * Applied Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering
 * Computer Science and Engineering
 * Electronics and Communication Engineering
 * Biotechnology
 * VLSI
 * Renewable Energy

Admission to the undergraduate B.Tech. courses are done through the West Bengal Joint Entrance Examination (WBJEE) and Joint Entrance Examination – Main (JEE-MAIN).

Campus
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Facilities and Infrastructure

 * Postal Facilities
 * Sports Facilities
 * Banking Facilities
 * Healthcare
 * Fire Safety
 * Transportation
 * Cafeteria
 * Student Accommodation

Student Exchange
The institute signed an MoU with the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) for a student exchange programme

It has signed an MoU with the College of Natural Science, Sungkyunkwan University.