Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology, which presents itself as KIIT Deemed to be University, is based in Bhubaneswar, Odisha. KIIT says it was established in 1992 as a vocational training centre, began higher education in 1997 when its degree engineering programme started, and was declared a deemed university by the Ministry of HRD in 2004. It is a deemed to be university under Section 3 of the UGC Act, 1956.
KIIT describes itself as a 36 sq. km. academic township with 30 campuses and over 3,000 faculty and researchers. It reports over 30,000 students on undergraduate, postgraduate and PhD courses, with students from over 70 countries. Schools added in 2007 included law, biotechnology, medical sciences, dental sciences and nursing. Its founder is Achyuta Samanta.