BIHAR-INST-001
Indian Institute of Technology Patna
Institute of National Importance set up by an Act of Parliament in 2008. It is one of the top-20 engineering institutions in NIRF 2025.
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What's confirmed
9 sourced facts
- Established by an Act of Parliament on 6 August 2008
- NIRF 2025 Engineering rank 19 (score 64.52)
- NIRF 2025 Overall rank 36 (score 57.63)
- IC IITP focuses on ESDM, medical electronics and ICT, with MeitY and Government of Bihar support
- IC IITP says it has worked with more than 60 startups
- CET offers 4-year BS programmes in AI & Cyber Security and in CS & Data Analytics
- MeitY approved the IC IITP project in 2014 at Rs 47.1 crore, including a Rs 22.1 crore MeitY grant-in-aid.
- It returned to the NIRF Engineering top 20 in 2025 at rank 19, the same rank it held in 2017, after falling to 41 in 2023.
- NIRF 2025 also placed it in the Innovation band 11-50 and at rank 39 among Research Institutions. Those are separate rankings from Engineering and Overall.
Still to be confirmed
8 open questions
- Current intake per programme
- Homepage figures ('98.5% placement', '17+ startups') are self-reported and unaudited
- The B.Tech branch list comes from a 2020-21 placement brochure plus the AI-DS curriculum document; the current full list is not verified
- The first admitting session of the B.Tech in AI and Data Science. Reporting in November 2021 describes the courses as announced for an early-2021 session while a January 2023 report calls the programme 'recently launched', and the curriculum document on academics.iitp.ac.in carries no session or senate date.
- The start date of the CET four-year BS in AI and Cyber Security. Its course-structure document is also undated.
- Sources conflict on when IC IITP began: reporting in November 2018 says it started under the institute's incubation society in 2016, while a July 2016 report describes it as inaugurated the previous year. Both are recorded.
- A founding date for FIST IIT Patna (DST NIDHI-TBI).
- The 2016 NIRF Engineering list published no rank column, so its entry is a position in a score-ordered list of 100 rather than a published rank, and is excluded from the series below. Note also that the nirfindia.org URL for 2016 serves 2017 data.
NIRF ranking history (9 editions)
As published each year. A blank cell means the institution was not in that year's list, which is not the same as being unranked.
| Year | Engineering | Innovation | Overall | Research |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #19 | Band 11-50 | #36 | #39 |
| 2024 | #34 | — | #73 | — |
| 2023 | #41 | — | #66 | — |
| 2022 | #33 | — | #59 | #41 |
| 2021 | #21 | — | #51 | #47 |
| 2020 | #26 | — | #54 | — |
| 2019 | #22 | — | #58 | — |
| 2018 | #24 | — | #69 | — |
| 2017 | #19 | — | #83 | — |
Technology programmes (5)
Only programmes a source names; the list may not be complete
- B.Tech Computer Science and Engineering
- B.Tech Electrical Engineering
- B.Tech Artificial Intelligence and Data Science (curriculum document on academics.iitp.ac.in)
- 4-year BS in Artificial Intelligence and Cyber Security (CET)
- 4-year BS in Computer Science and Data Analytics (CET)
Sources (6)
Who reported it, when, and what they cover
| Publisher | Published | Covers | Link |
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NIRF, Ministry of Education Ranking body |
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NIRF, Ministry of Education Ranking body |
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IIT Patna Official institution |
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IIT Patna CET Official institution |
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IIT Patna Official institution |
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Incubation Centre IIT Patna Official institution |
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