Founded by Professor Achyuta Samanta in 1993 in a two-room rented house, the Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology started as a vocational education centre. It took shape as an institution in 1997 with the commencement of an engineering degree programme.
Today, the institute comprises of 1800+ faculty members, 100 academic programmes and about 27000 students. KIIT strives to create an advanced centre of professional learning of international standing where pursuit of knowledge and excellence shall reign supreme, unfettered by the barriers of nationality, language, cultural plurality and religion.
KIIT is unique among its peer institutions in having nineteen schools co-located on one contiguous campus, and all of them possess exceptional breadth and depth of excellence. This naturally facilitates multidisciplinary collaboration.