Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra

About College:

The Birla Institute of Technology (BIT) in Mesra is one of the best-known engineering colleges in the country. It is located in the state of Jharkhand, just adjacent to the city of Ranchi, which is the state capital. It was founded in the year 1955 by one of the then-patriarchs of the Birla industrialist family. It has a flourishing 980-acre main campus. The BIT Mesra has set up extension centres in several cities within the country located in Kolkata, Allahabad, Patna, Noida, Deoghar and in Ranchi. It even has two international extension centres in the Middle East region. There are at Ras-Al-Khaimah in the UAE and in Muscat, the capital of Oman. 

En number of courses are available for study here at the BIT Mesra campus. They are available straight from the UG till the doctoral levels. At the UG level, the programmes may broadly be divided into the areas of engineering, architecture, pharmacy, hotel management and the sciences. For architecture and pharmacy, the single B. Arch and B. Pharm. programmes may be pursued. For hotel management, it is the BHMCT (Bachelors in Hotel Management and Catering Technology). The sciences are available in the format of an integrated MSc. They may be pursued in the fields of Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics and Computing and in Food Technology. The B.E may be pursued in the areas of Civil Engineering, Computer Science, Chemical Engineering, Biotechnology, Mechanical Engineering, Information Technology, Production Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering and in Electronics and Communication Engineering.

At the PG level, the courses become more specialized, thus the preponderance in terms of the number of options. The ME programmes are available in the fields of – Structural Engineering, Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering, Automated Manufacturing Systems, Computer Aided Analysis and Design (CAAD), Control Systems, Power Systems, Power Electronics, Software Engineering, Space Engineering and Rocketry and in some conventional areas. The BIT Mesra was, in fact, the first college in India where academic programmes were launched for the study of space engineering and rocketry. The options available for the MTech programmes are in – Biotechnology, Remote Sensing, Environmental Science and Engineering, Bio-Medical Instrumentation, Information Science, Information Technology and for Nano Science and Technology. The M.Pharm programme can be pursued for the fields of – Pharmaceutics, Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Pharmacology, Pharmacognosy, Clinical Research and for Quality Assurance and Regulatory Affairs. One last area with a plethora of options is the MSc. This may be taken up for the areas of- Applied Physics, Applied Chemistry, Applied Mathematics, Bio Technology, Bio Informatics, Geo-Informatics, Information Science and in Food Technology. One-off courses are also available for MBA, MCA and MUP (Master of Urban Planning). 

The BIT Mesra has also been a pioneer when it comes to forging international alliances for academic and research collaborations. These kinds of collaborations stretch with academic partners form the USA, UK, Denmark, Canada and France. Some of the key collaborators are- Aalborg University, Purdue University, University of Leeds, the University of New Brunswick and the University of Houston, besides with others. Research is another key area at the BIT Mesra. There are internal research initiatives. But most prolific are the industry-sponsored research projects taken up. The funding agencies for these projects have been the likes of UGC, CIL, AICTE, Visa Power, Lanco Coal Company, Essar, DST and Tata Steel among others. The task for the upgrade of the Birsa Munda Airport in Ranchi was taken up by the Department of Architecture here at the BIT Mesra. 

All this has led to the institute being ranked favourably across platforms. It was ranked as the 26th best in the NIRF (National Institutional Rankings Framework) 2018 among the engineering colleges. In the same rankings, it got placed 66th overall and 43rd among universities. The MBA programme was ranked 23rd in the country by NIRF, which also ranked the pharmacy programme at 20th in India. Such favourable rankings have further boosted up the placements’ scenario here. The key recruiters in recent seasons have been the likes of – Accenture, Aditya Birla Fashion Retail, Adobe, Axis Bank, CRISIL, Crompton, Carwale, Capgemini, Amazon, Bajaj Electricals, Chinmaya Vidyalaya, Amadeus, Intel, Infosys, Johnson and Johnson, IFB, ICICI Bank. ICICI Prudential, Havells, HCL, Goldman Sachs, EXL, Dr. Reddy’s, FICO, Futures First, Info edge, JSW, Karvy, KPMG, Reliance Jio, PwC, Pay Pal, Microsoft, Maruti Suzuki, Kronos, LinkedIn, Nestle, NEI, Mu Sigma, Mahinda and Mahindra, Rivigo, Salesforce, ZS, Wipro, Walmart, Vodafone, SAP Labs, Samsung, Tata Steel, Torrent Pharma, and Vedanta among several others.