Varanasi's ghats at dawn, seen across the Ganga

Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi

Engineering in Kashi since 1919.

Study and research in the heart of Banaras Hindu University.

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A campus of more than 9,000 students.

A snapshot of the people and projects that make up IIT (BHU) today.

9,354

students

395

faculty

575

What people here actually work on

Faculty across the institute work on materials, water, health, energy, computation and the built city — most of them in more than one of those at once.

Students at work in an undergraduate computing laboratory in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering.

Explore research areas drawn from faculty interests across the institute. 575 sponsored projects are currently underway.

All research areas

Find your department.

Explore engineering, science, humanistic studies and interdisciplinary schools. Each department has its own people, programmes and research.

Faculty figures count published profiles. Some newer departments have yet to publish theirs.

Every department in full

The IIT (BHU) entrance sign in steel lettering, and the Banaras Hindu University main building beyond it in morning haze.

A campus inside a campus, inside Kashi.

Its address is the university’s — Banaras Hindu University Campus, Varanasi 221005 — and its buildings stand inside the university’s estate.

The institute gate and the university beyond · Institute film

A planted courtyard along the ground-floor arcade of the new girls' hostel.

The reading hall of the central library.

Browse 32 albums from campus life: convocations, student events, national celebrations and the places people use every day.

The way in

Undergraduate entry through JEE (Advanced) and JoSAA, postgraduate through GATE, JAM, CAT or GPAT, doctoral through the institute’s own process — with the route for each set out in full.

How to apply or read the 10 degree routes first

Once you have decided