Indian Institute of Information Technology Bhagalpur

Indian Institute of Information Technology Bhagalpur is one of the IIITs set up by the Ministry of Education (then MHRD) in public-private partnership mode, as a joint venture of the Government of India, the Government of Bihar and BELTRON. It began classes on 1 August 2017 and became an Institute of National Importance in 2020, when it was brought under the Indian Institutes of Information Technology (Public-Private Partnership) Act, 2017. The Bihar government gave it 50 acres carved out of the BCE Bhagalpur campus beside the Ganga, and since the first construction phase was finished in 2024 it has run fully from this permanent campus at Sabour.

Departments cover computer science and engineering, electronics and communication engineering, mechatronics and automation engineering, and basic science and humanities. IIIT Bhagalpur awards B.Tech degrees in computer science and engineering, electronics and communication engineering, mathematics and computing, and mechatronics and automation, with seats allotted on JEE Main ranks through JoSAA and CSAB. It also runs M.Tech programmes in artificial intelligence and data science, VLSI and embedded systems, and electric vehicle technology, and has offered PhD programmes since 2021.