KIIT & KISS: Epitomizing Excellence in Education in India KIIT Is synonymous with academic excellence; KISS symbolizes liberation of indigenous students from the shackles of ignorance and poverty
Bhubaneswar,Odisha,India
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September 13, 2022 12:51 PM Eastern Daylight Time
Life Oscillates between failure and success. Nothing is constant and one person who has seen it all through ups and downs is KIIT Founder Dr Achyuta Samanta. His initial years were filled with struggle as he grew up in poverty. Dr Samanta was born in a nondescript village called Kalarabanka in Cuttack district of Odisha, India and came from a modest background. But the determination in him to succeed in life and help others rise from hopelessness and despondency through education is an example worth emulating for generations to come.
He refused to remain caged under circumstances and nurtured a fiery passion from his early days to offer quality education to the poor. Education, he said, is the only weapon to fight hunger and poverty, kindle hope and bring success in life. It was this untiring desire that led him to establish KIIT and KISS Deemed-to-be-Universities in Odisha’s Capital Bhubaneswar, India.
A three decades dream to transform KISS into world’s largest university for indigenous students.
Dr Samanta set on a course from the dusty lanes of his village to redefine the education landscape in the State of Odisha and Eastern India. KIIT had a humble beginning. It started with a vocational institute offering ITI education to students. But the transformation was fast. In the next two decades, the vocational institute transformed into one of the top 20 universities in the country. It has become a knowledge hub. Dr Samanta was undeniably the first in Odisha to take a deep dive into the matrices of Odisha’s societal realities. He could realise that the indigenous people, who constitutes 28 per cent of the State’s population, could be empowered only through education. He began KISS in the early 1990s and made it into the largest university for indigenous students in the world. Dr Samanta was alive to the realities of the indigenous population three decades ago, a concern that the rest of the State is awakening to now.
Extraordinary qualities behind a modest persona
It was pure hard work and steadfast resolve combined with an incredible vision that defined the persona of Dr Samanta. Sauva, soft-spoken and shy of publicity, Dr Samanta, dressed in his quintessential bush-shirts, embodies an extraordinary personality behind a simple life. KIIT Deemed-to-be-University is synonymous with academic excellence. It is a knowledge destination for students from India and outside. The University has countless talents who not only are celebrated names in their respective domains, but they are also contributing to their nation’s growth as successful bureaucrats, entrepreneurs and start-up leaders. It has redefined professional education in the country and set benchmarks in teaching pedagogies and research outputs. The remarkable growth of the University is rooted in the principles espoused time and again by Dr Samanta. They are sustained focus on quality education and research with specific attention to universal access to education and equity. The academic programmes provide exposure to real field issues through a variety of academic activities at the undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral levels.
The KIIT ecosystem ensures that no student feels left out or disconnected and that the student makes the crucial transition toward university life. KIIT orientation programmes include workshops, social events, study groups and opportunities to get involved in campus life. Participating in these activities ensures a student makes a successful start to studying at KIIT. Most Schools have adopted the novel concept of ‘tutor mentorship programme’, attaching 10-15 students with experienced faculty who help, guide and nurtures them through regular interactive sessions. This initiative also helps the student resolve personal problems. Both the Central and the state governments have forged alliances with KIIT for consultancy services. Experts from KIIT are not only providing periodic investigation to NHAI project sites but are also offering state urban sanitation strategies, building and structural designs as well as heritage projects. Evidently so, KIIT has become one of the top destinations for recruiters to hunt for promising minds.
Accolades:
The Education Ministry’s NIRF 2022 has placed it as the 20th best University in the country. The University has been awarded high scores in parameters such as teaching, learning resources and graduation outcome. In the outreach and inclusive parameter, the university got a score of 77.86. It ranks in the cohort of 801-1000 globally in the prestigious Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2022. It was ranked 8th best University in the world in the prestigious Times Higher Education Impact Rankings 2022 for the impressive progress made in 'reducing inequalities. Achieving gender equality is one of the key parameters of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) objectives.
The premier institute is spread over 25 sq. km of the academic township and offers courses in almost all engineering disciplines besides medicine, management, rural management, law, architecture, biotechnology, fashion trichology and other domains. In 2021, KIIT was ranked No 1 among the top self-financing institutes in the country and the 20th best university in the country. The student-friendly policies make KIIT one of the high-in-demand universities in India today. It was one of the early ones to adopt the choice-based credit system to enable students to select the course of their choice that matches their interests. Student counselling and research are the other two areas that are given enhanced focus and attention.
In 2021, the campus achieved record placement with 350 plus top-notch companies committing 5000 plus job offers for a batch size of 3500 eligible B.Tech students of the 2022 graduating batch. Five students bagged the highest CTC of Rs.52 lakh per annum. The university ecosystem is developed in a way that supports the aspirational needs of a student.
It became India's first QS 5 Stars Rated University by being awarded 5 Stars from all the categories of QS criteria. Times Higher Education, in its Asia University Rankings for 2022, has placed it as the 23rd best in India in the overall category. The sprawling campus is a veritable melting pot of nationalists, cultures and ethnicities. The vastness is manifested in many ways. It has an exciting mix of pupils who come from myriad backgrounds. It enjoys an enviable reputation of having the largest number of foreign students on any campus in Eastern India. And it offers a fusion of unique architectures in every radius block that represents the distinctiveness of the 23 individual non-scholastic extracurricular activities. The student-friendly policies make KIIT one of the high-in-demand universities.
KIITS was created as an advanced centre of professional learning of international standing where pursuit of knowledge and excellence shall reign supreme, unfettered by the barriers of nationality, language, cultural plurality and religion.
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