The Birla Institute of Technology & Science (BITS), Pilani is an all-India Institute for higher education. The primary motive of BITS is to "train young men and women able and eager to create and put into action such ideas, methods, techniques and information". The Institute is a dream come true of its founder late Mr G.D.Birla - an eminent industrialist, a participant in Indian freedom struggle and a close associate of the Father of Indian Nation late Mr. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi). What started in early 1900s as a small school, blossomed into a set of colleges for higher education, ranging from the Humanities to Engineering until 1964 when all these colleges amalgamated to culminate into a unique Indian University of International standing. This university was christened as the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, known to many as BITS, Pilani.
Over the years, BITS has provided the highest quality technical education to students from all over India admitted on the basis of merit. Its graduates may be found throughout the world in all areas of engineering, science and commerce. BITS symbolizes the maturing of Indian technical ability and "can-do" entrepreneurial spirit, especially as derived from the private sector. BITS is located in the Vidya Vihar campus adjacent to the town of Pilani in Rajasthan.
These details have been retrieved from discovery.bits-pilani.ac.in
Placement
BITS has a remarkable placement record and most students have their careers charted out well before they complete graduation. BITS is a Deemed University and offers more than 30 different programs on campus.
About 1000 students graduate every year from Pilani campus. Out of these, about 50% of students are available on-campus in a given semester; the other 50% of students will be in the Practice School stations all over India and abroad undergoing training at industry locations as part of their curriculum. As a consequence, there are two placement sessions in a year. The first session is during August to November (in first semester) and the second session is during January to April (in second semester). About 130 reputed companies visited the campus during 2007-08 to interview and select the students.
For the batch graduating in May / June 2009, there will be two placement sessions.
(i) For the final year students who are on campus from January to May 2009, the campus placement session is during January - April 2009.
(ii) For the final year students who are at Industry locations in second semester undergoing their Practice School training, the placement session was during August - November 2008.
Admission
On Campus Degree Programmes: The Birla Institute of Technology & Science (BITS), Pilani offers degree programmes in Engineering, Sciences, Technology, Pharmacy, Management and Humanities. This web site describes the admission modalities for the on-campus degree progarmmes offered at Pilani campus, Goa Campus and Hyderabad Campus.
Off Campus Degree Programmes: BITS, Pilani conducts off-campus degree programmes as a means of continuing education for employed professionals as part of the human resource development programmes of specific organizations at various off-campus centres.
