An engineering college of 1919, an IIT since 2012, in a city older than either.
भारतीय प्रौद्योगिकी संस्थान (का.हि.वि.) वाराणसी
Three dates
1916
Banaras Hindu University is founded
Malaviya establishes the university on the southern edge of Varanasi. The engineering college that becomes this institute is founded inside it.
1919
The engineering college opens
The date the institute counts its founding from, and the reason its centenary fell in 2019.
2012
An Indian Institute of Technology
The Institute of Technology, BHU becomes IIT (BHU) Varanasi by amendment of the Institutes of Technology Act — an IIT that remains inside a university.
The institute’s own site publishes no continuous history. What is above is what can be stated from its statutes and its own pages; the rest of the account — BENCO and MINMET, the centenary, the campus architecture — is not reproduced here because there is nothing to reproduce it from.
Mahamana Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya · Institute photography
What the founder said it was for
“A teaching university would but half perform its function if it does not seek to develop the heart-power of its scholars with the same solicitude with which it develops their brain-power. Hence it is that the proposed university has placed formation of character in youth as one of its principal objects.”
एक शिक्षण विश्वविद्यालय केवल इसका आधा कार्य ही निष्पादित कर पाएगा यदि वह इसके छात्रों की हृदय-शक्ति को उसी उत्सुकता के साथ विकसित नहीं करना चाहता है जिसके साथ यह उनकी मस्तिष्क-शक्ति का विकास करता है।
The institute now
9,354
students
395
faculty
575
sponsored projects running
- 20
- departments and schools
- 21
- centres and laboratories
- 422
- staff
- 1,745
- consultancy projects · FY 2024-25
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Rankings & facts
Every verified figure in one citable place, server-rendered rather than counted up by a script
Leadership
Who leads the institute, and what each office is responsible for
Governance
The Board, the Senate, and the offices that carry out their decisions
Heritage
1919 to now — Malaviya, BHU, and how the institute took its present form
Statutory & transparency
RTI, audited accounts, meeting minutes, tenders and procurement
Visit & contact
Where the institute is, how to reach it, and who to write to