B Gaurav's Review on KIIT University, Bhubaneswar
College Infrastructure and Hostel Facilities
- KIIT University is in twelve landscaped and eco-friendly campuses of 400 acres (1.6 km) in the temple city of Bhubaneswar. The classrooms are air-conditioned and have state-of-the-art modern educational equipment like wireless LCD projectors to teach the students in a friendly manner. The campus is connected by a 16 Mbit/s Wifi connection for easy access to the internet.
- The university has a central library consisting more than 141,819 books and journals on various topics and also have access to several renowned web libraries and journals.
- Services provided to the users include Current Awareness Service (CAS), Reference Service, Documentation Service, Reprographic Service, Digital Library and Web Library. Apart from the central library, every school maintains its own library for assisting the students and teachers.
- Separate hostel facilities are available for boys and girls with modern amenities and 24 hours internet connectivity.
- The canteens serve hygienic Indian and continental dishes to the students. The cafeterias within the campus offer snacks, soft drinks, and beverages.
- Students can practice several sports like basketball, lawn tennis, hockey, and cricket. Biju Patnaik Indoor Stadium, established by KIIT, is one of the biggest indoor stadiums in the state next to Jawaharlal Nehru Indoor Stadium at Cuttack. It provides a facility for all indoor games, including an air-conditioned billiards room.
- Twelve stations Multi-gym, Billiards, Table Tennis, Badminton, Chess, and Carom are the main attractions of the indoor stadium.
- KIIT also has buses, shuttle cars to meet the transportation need of the students and staffs. An in-house computerized Post Office is functioning from the Campus. All postal stationeries along with Speed Post facility are available at the post office.
- Banking services along with 24 hours ATM are available of Allahabad Bank, ICICI Bank, Punjab National Bank, Oriental Bank of Commerce, United Bank of India and State Bank of India to the students.
Fees and Scholarships
- Admission to undergraduate and postgraduate programs are primarily done through the KIIT University entrance examination KIITEE (KIIT Entrance Examination). Admission to the M.Tech program is also granted through GATE.
- Students are admitted to the law school through a written all India common test known as KLSAT (KIIT Law School Admission Test).
- For the newly introduced courses of fashion, film studies, journalism and sculpturing the admission will be done on the basis of merit of previous qualifying examinations and additional experiences related to the concerned disciplines.
- The University also grants scholarships to meritorious and needy students every year.
Clubs and Associations
- KIIT provides on-campus residential facilities to its students, research scholars, faculty members and many of its staff. The students live in hostels throughout their stay in the KIIT, though it's optional.
- There are in total 17 different hostels out of which six are for girls and rest are for boys. The boys' hostels are generally known as Kings Palace and girls' hostels are known as Queens Castle.
- Hostel rooms have 19 hours Wifi internet connections. Most of the rooms in the hostels are designed to accommodate three students per room.
- The hostels are provided with a common room with plasma screen television which also acts as a place of interaction.
- There are different societies in KIIT University to choose from according to the interest and choice of the student. Some of the major societies of the college are Qutopia, the Quiz society; Kronicle, the Literary Society, the Social Responsibility Cell and Korus, the Music Society.
- Social Responsibility Cell aims at inculcating a sense of social responsibility in the hearts and minds of all the University students
- The School of Technology, have the Robotic Society, which organizes meetings and workshops to expose the students about a robotic concept and how to build and program them.
- The annual Techno-Management fest named KIIT FEST is organized every year which provides a platform for the progressive brains of our nation to interact, compete and display their creativity and talent. Koncord is the annual cultural fest organized in KIIT.
- Some of the schools organize their own fest, like the School of Management, organises its own fest Kolosseum every year.
- Other celebrations include Independence Day, Republic day is organized with great enthusiasm.
- Students from various schools of KIIT University also come together to bring out Kritika, the annual students' magazine of KIIT University.
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College Infrastructure & Hostel Facilities
4.5
Clubs & Associations
4.5
Fees & Scholarships
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