The Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University) Varanasi traces its origins to Banaras Engineering College (BENCO), established within Banaras Hindu University in 1919. BHU’s engineering colleges, BENCO, the College of Mining and Metallurgy (MINMET) and the College of Technology (TECHNO), were merged in 1968 to form the Institute of Technology (IT-BHU), which admitted students through the IIT Joint Entrance Examination from 1972. IT-BHU became IIT (BHU) Varanasi on 29 June 2012 by an Act of Parliament.
Its NIRF 2026 data submission reports 4,653 students on four-year and 1,887 on five-year undergraduate programmes, 973 on two-year postgraduate programmes and 1,355 full-time PhD students. The Director is Prof. Amit Patra and the Registrar is Shri Sumit Kumar Biswas.