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Bosco Institute of Information Technology (BIIT)
Bosco Institute of information Technology is one of the institute which is run by Don Bosco group of institutes ( Salesian Priests). Don Bosco Institutes are all well known for their quality of education all over the world. BIIT was established in 1998 for Education, Training and Placement for Rural Youth in Information Technology at Yellagiri Hills. It was envisioned to provide the  quality of education to  the rural people who are all good at education ,analytical thinking and economically backward.

History
In 1962 Don Bosco center, Yellagiri Hills was founded by Rev. Fr. Francis Guezou, who is a French Salesian missionary came to India in 1952. He has been the cause of promoting education of the poor, tribal and rural youth at different places of Salesian apostolate in South India. He had a deep conviction that only quality education can pave way for the upliftment of the rural mass. Thus was born the evening school for the working boys and girls, St.Charles School, DBC Boarding, and BICS InfoTech (BIIT and BOSCO ITS). BICS InfoTech was established in 1998 with BIIT and BOSCO ITS as its education and technology units to provide professional compute education to the rural and tribal youth.

Mission
Empowering the target youth with qualitative knowledge, practice and experience to become integrated persons for career and life. In pursuit of this, Don Bosco College offer programmes and services, of best-in-class standards.

About Institute
This Institute offers two type of degree. One is 3 years PGDIT along with IGNOU. Another is 1 year DCA along with CDAC, Pune (Centre for Development in Advanced Computing, an autonomous body of the Ministry of Information Technology, Government of India). This is one of the institute, that own special contract with CDAC and special study centre of IGNOU ( study center code : 2544D). For the 75 (40-PGDIT, 35-DCA) seats people are selected after the very strict interview process which includes,  written, analytical,  subject knowledge and followed by personal interview, out of nearly 2000 applicants.

This institute very unique because, it is completely residential. Since it is hills station, it is conducive for studies. The faculties who are all teaching is not only qualified to teach. But they should be software development background. The exposure of English language and software development is experience given during the studies.

Courses
Though the BCA is from IGNOU, the syllabus of PGDIT is for better than MCA, adhering to rigorous academic discipline with a special curriculum designed according to the growing need of the software industry. There is a software development wing of Bosco Soft Technologies, in the same campus. Placements happens after another subsequent interview process. Since we have  exposure to software company experience, it would be an added advantage.

Don Bosco College
in the 50th year of Francis Guezou’s arrival (1962-2012) at Yelagiri Hills, BICS InfoTech was upgraded to Don Bosco College, affiliated to Thiruvalluvar University. The inception of Don Bosco College at Yelagiri Hills is a golden milestone in the history of Don Bosco Centre (Yelagiri Hills) to provide higher education services to more students. Today, the affiliated college has various departments offering various programmes of study. Don Bosco College strives continuously to apply indigenous methods and strategies to make the students qualified, employable and live an integrated life.