MIT began on 25 September 1954 with one discipline: Civil Engineering. Committee recommended the establishment of higher technical institutions in India, along the lines of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and consulting from the University of Illinois 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. The first Prime Minister of India Jawaharlal Nehru laid the foundation of the main building on 21 April 1956. Mechanical Engineering and Electrical Engineering disciplines were added in 1960 and the institute was renamed as Muzaffarpur Institute of Technology. Pharmacy and Leather Technology were added in 1978 and 1986 respectively. Information Technology 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.
Campus
The campus is in the north-west corner of Muzaffarpur city, along Muzaffarpur–Motihari road, and spread over an area of four kilometers from Muzaffarpur railway station. The institute is flanked by the river Burhi Gandak on the north, a reservoir on the east, Muzaffarpur–Motihari 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
It has also separate building for branches like Information technology building,Electronic and communications building,Lab building for physics and chemistry.
From 2019 onwards, admissions will be based on national JEE merit list. Students who want to enroll must appear in IIT-JEE Exam that is conducted by National Testing Agency. Earlier Undergraduate admissions were done through the Bihar Combined Entrance Competitive Examination conducted by Bihar Combined Entrance Competitive Examination Board, Under Bihar Combined Entrance Competitive Examination Act, 1995 of Bihar government. 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. 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 Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering conducted by IITs/IISc.
University affiliation
Formerly it was affiliated to BABASAHEB BHIMRAO AMBEDKAR BIHAR UNIVERSITY But Later from 2010 MIT is affiliated to Aryabhatta Knowledge University, Patna.
MIT has the following branches at the undergraduate Bachelor of Technology level. The number of seats available in each discipline is given in parentheses:
There are seven boys hostels having a capacity to accommodate 1400 students and one girls hostel with a capacity to accommodate 200 students.hostel -01 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 2K15 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 severals of lawn tennis, badminton, chess, etc. tournament every year at MIT sports grounds. Inter college and Interstates tournaments held every year.
Junoon
STARTUP CELL
The Start-up cell in MIT,Muzaffarpur is established on 16th January 2018.
SIRTDO
The Small Industries Research, Training and Development Organization was established at MIT in 1976 with financial support from the government of Bihar 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.
