Sambalpur University Institute of Information Technology


Sambalpur University Institute of Information Technology was established in 2010.

History

SUIIT was set up in 2010 as a self-financing institute of Sambalpur University and is the first Technical Institute which to be set up in a General University after 2002 in Odisha. SUIIT is the Brain Child of Ex vice-chancellor Prof Arun Pujari.
Most of the courses being offered by the SUIIT were pulled out from different existing departments of Sambalpur University. Electronics was taken out of physics department, computer science from mathematics while bioinformatics was pulled out from life sciences department. Only the undergraduate courses newly add in SUIIT.
While the state government had given an initial budget of Rs 10 crore in 2009-10 for the institute, Rs 5 crore from Directorate of Distance and Continuing Education was given to it for construction of its buildings inside the varsity.

Location

The present campus of the University is located at Burla, 2 km away from NH 6. The campus of this university is in the vicinity of Mahanadi Coal Fields Limited, VSSUT and located on the foothills of the Hirakud Dam.

Admission

From the year 2017, admissions into the B.Tech courses will be through Counselling. Candidates both regular and lateral entry can take admission only through 2017 Counselling by following appropriate admission procedure. For detail eligibility criteria and admission/counselling procedure, the candidate may refer website. There is no other way to take admission into B. Tech programmes. Refund and reservation policy are as per rules.

Academics

New hostels were inaugurated and started functioning from 1 August 2016 and another new hostel in 2017.