Governance BIT functions under the control of a
Board of Governors, comprising representatives of the
Ministry of Human Resource Development,
Government of India, the
UGC, the State Government, the
Chancellor, the
A.I.C.T.E., the Hindustan Charity Trust and the Institute Faculty.
C. K. Birla is the chairman of the board of governors and also the chancellor of the institute. The Technical Council headed by vice chancellor decides the academic policy of the institute.
Departments BIT Mesra has the following departments •
Architecture and Planning •
Bioengineering and Biotechnology •
Centre for Food Engineering and Technology •
Centre for Quantitative Economics and Data Science •
Chemical Engineering •
Chemistry •
Civil Engineering •
Computer Science and Engineering •
Electrical and Electronics Engineering •
Electronics and Communication Engineering •
Humanities and Social Sciences •
Management •
Mathematics •
Mechanical Engineering •
Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technology •
Physics •
Production and Industrial Engineering •
Remote Sensing •
Space Engineering and Rocketry University Polytechnic The University Polytechnic was established in 2001, as a joint venture of the Department of Welfare, Government of
Jharkhand and BIT, Mesra, to impart Diploma level technical education amongst the youths of Jharkhand. Its campus is located close to the National Highway 33 in the vicinity of the BIT Main campus on the outskirts of Ranchi.
Deoghar Extension Centre In order to expand BIT further across the state, the Jharkhand government asked the institute to establish an Extension Centre at Deoghar, Jharkhand. A MoU was signed between the Institute and the Government of Jharkhand. In October 2007,
Birla Institute of Technology extension Deoghar began to operate. As per the provisions of the MoU it was decided that 50% of spaces would be for students acquiring eligible qualifications from Institutions located in Jharkhand while the remaining 50% would be for students from other states of the country. Admission has been through
JEE Main with Central Counseling conducted by the Central Counseling Board.
Patna Extension Centre Birla Institute of Technology, Patna Campus was established in 2006, on the initiative of Govt. of Bihar. The institute came into existence by Public-Private Partnership (PPP) mode under flagship management of BIT Mesra. The Chief Minister of Bihar
Nitish Kumar, laid the foundation stone of the institute in December 2005. The institute started its academic programme during the 2006–07 academic year.
Birla Institute of Scientific Research The Birla Institute of Scientific Research (BISR) is a sister concern of Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi which hosts an auditorium and a planetarium in its campus in Jaipur. The institute was established for promoting science education through its museum and planetarium. This institute has a state of the art Bioinformatics Centre in Department of Biotechnology and Bioinformatics and a Remote Sensing Department. ==Academics==