Muzaffarpur Institute of Technology (commonly referred to as MIT, Muzaffarpur) is a public, coeducational engineering college in

Muzaffarpur Muzaffarpur () is a city located in Muzaffarpur district on the banks of Burhi Gandak River, Burhi Gandak river in the Tirhut division of the Indian state of Bihar. It serves as the headquarters of the Tirhut division, the Muzaffarpur distri ...

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. It is administered by the Department of Science and Technology, Bihar and funded by

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. It was founded in 1954, just after India attained independence in 1947. The foundation stone was laid by the first Prime Minister of India,

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. It runs undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in

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History

MIT (established with the name College of Civil Engineering, Muzaffarpur) began on 25 September 1954 with one discipline:

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. Committee recommended the establishment of higher technical institutions in India, along the lines of the

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and consulting from the

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at Urbana–Champaign along with affiliated secondary institutions. The report urged that work should start with the speedy establishment of major institutions in the four quarters of the country with the ones in the east and the west to be set up immediately It was inaugurated by C.P.N. Singh, governor of then East Punjab (now Punjab, Haryana and parts of Himachal Pradesh). The first

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laid the foundation of the main building on 21 April 1956.

Mechanical Engineering Mechanical engineering is the study of physical machines and mechanism (engineering), mechanisms that may involve force and movement. It is an engineering branch that combines engineering physics and engineering mathematics, mathematics principl ...

and

Electrical Engineering Electrical engineering is an engineering discipline concerned with the study, design, and application of equipment, devices, and systems that use electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism. It emerged as an identifiable occupation in the l ...

disciplines were added in 1960 and the institute was renamed as Muzaffarpur Institute of Technology.

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and Leather Technology were added in 1978 and 1986 respectively.

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and Electronics and Communication Engineering disciplines were introduced in 2001. In December 2008, the government of Bihar declared that MIT would be developed into a model engineering college. In 2022

Campus

The campus is in the north-west corner of

city, along

–

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road, and spread over an area of four kilometres from Muzaffarpur railway station. The institute is flanked by the river Burhi Gandak on the north, a reservoir on the east,

–

road on the south, and the road network on the west. The campus is divided into following zones: * Academic Zone that includes department offices, lecture theaters, libraries * Student Residential Zone * Faculty and Staff Residential Zone * Student Recreational Area that includes

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ground,

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ground,

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courts. * AVH is the hall for the cultural activities. * It has also separate building for branches like Information technology building, electronic and communications building, lab building for physics and chemistry. The campus has student activity centre, primary school named MIT Bal Niketan International School, branch of

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and a temple.

Academic departments

* Department of

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* Department of

* Department of Biomedical Robotics Engineering * Department of Leather Technology * Department of

* Department of

Mathematics Mathematics is a field of study that discovers and organizes methods, Mathematical theory, theories and theorems that are developed and Mathematical proof, proved for the needs of empirical sciences and mathematics itself. There are many ar ...

* Department of

Physics Physics is the scientific study of matter, its Elementary particle, fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force. "Physical science is that department of knowledge whi ...

* Department of

Chemistry Chemistry is the scientific study of the properties and behavior of matter. It is a physical science within the natural sciences that studies the chemical elements that make up matter and chemical compound, compounds made of atoms, molecules a ...

* Department of

Humanities Humanities are academic disciplines that study aspects of human society and culture, including Philosophy, certain fundamental questions asked by humans. During the Renaissance, the term "humanities" referred to the study of classical literature a ...

Academics

Admission

From 2019 onwards, admissions is based on national

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merit list. Students who want to enroll must appear at the exam that is conducted by

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. Earlier Undergraduate admissions were done through the

Bihar Combined Entrance Competitive Examination Board Bihar Combined Entrance Competitive Examination Board (BCECEB) conducts competitive examinations and counsellings every year for admissions in various courses of Medical, Engineering and Agricultural streams in the Institutions of Bihar. It is c ...

. The entrance examination was held in two stages: First stage was the screening test or preliminary test. The screened candidates had to appear in the main examination (second stage). Based on the merit list in the second stage, successful candidates were allotted seats in different engineering colleges of Bihar. Admission to postgraduate programmes is based upon score and rank in

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(GATE) conducted by IITs/IISc.

University affiliation

MIT was affiliated to Aryabhatta Knowledge University until 2021.Currently, MIT is affiliated to Bihar Engineering University.

Degree programs

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech)

MIT has the following branches at the undergraduate

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level. The number of seats available in each discipline is given in parentheses: *

(60) *

(40) *

(60) * Leather Technology (30)

Bachelor of Pharmacy (B.Pharm.)

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(60)

Master of Technology

At the postgraduate M.Tech level MIT has the following branches: * Machine Design (under the department of

) (18 full-time + 4 part-time) * Thermal Engineering (under the department of

) (18 full-time + 5 part-time) * Manufacturing Technology (under the department of

) (18 full-time ) Facilities for Ph.D. research exist in all departments.

Student life

Hostels

There are seven boys hostels having a capacity to accommodate 1400 students and one girls hostel (the Golden Jubilee Girls Hostel) with a capacity to accommodate 200 students.hostel -01 (damodar hostel) was constructed in 1952 before college main building was constructed. Guest Houses for parents and others are also located in the campus.

MIT Sports Club

The sports club has been functioning since 1954 and provides facilities for Cricket, Lawn Tennis, Badminton, Volleyball, Basketball, Football Table- Tennis and Indore games. But since 2000 the sports club became inactive and unofficially closed. Later on, in 2017 a group of students from 2015 batch has relaunched the platform of sports in this college as MIT SPORTS CLUB. The club organizes the institute's annual sports, an Inter-college sports meet and several of lawn tennis, badminton, chess, etc. tournament every year at MIT sports grounds. Inter college and Interstates tournaments held every year. Event oraganize by Junoon

The Start-up cell in MIT, Muzaffarpur is established on 16 January 2018.www.mitmuzaffarpur.org
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SIRTDO

The Small Industries Research, Training and Development Organization (SIRTDO) was established at MIT in 1976 with financial support from the government of

with the objective to encourage entrepreneurship among MIT students. The organization organizes orientation programmes with the collaboration of other national level institutes. SIRTDO acts as incubation center for new business ventures by providing facilities at the campus and provides training to the entrepreneurs in product design, development and management, marketing and finance.

References

External links

*
BCECE Board website

DST, Bihar website

Bihar Engineering University website
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