Engineering built on the ground, not just in the syllabus.
KITE trains engineers in the Western Ghats foothills of Hassan, Karnataka — six branches, real labs, real projects, and a placement record that starts from the workbench, not the resume template.
A campus organised around building things.
Every department at KITE runs its own workshop, lab or field programme that turns coursework into something a student can point to and say: I made that.
Build from year one
PCB fabrication, CNC floors, cloud sandboxes and a live solar plant — infrastructure students use, not just tour. By second year, most coursework ends in something physical or deployed, not just graded.
91% peak rate
Training from year two, drives from year three.
PhD-led
Every department chaired by active researchers.
Built for this region
Hill-terrain civil engineering, watershed projects and regional industry MoUs — curriculum shaped by where we are.
Six branches, one project-first philosophy.
Computer Science & Engineering
The Department of Computer Science & Engineering trains students to think in systems — from a single line…
Information Science & Engineering
Information Science & Engineering focuses on the full data lifecycle — capture, storage, governance, and…
Electronics & Communication Engineering
Electronics & Communication Engineering covers the hardware and signal layer that everything digital runs on…
Electrical & Electronics Engineering
Electrical & Electronics Engineering covers power generation, transmission and control alongside the…
Mechanical Engineering
Mechanical Engineering covers the design, manufacture and analysis of physical systems — from a single…
Civil Engineering
Civil Engineering trains students to plan, design and deliver the built environment — structures,…
Student work that leaves the lab.
From a provisional patent filed out of the ECE embedded-systems lab to a civil-engineering watershed project adopted by the district administration, KITE measures research by what it changes outside campus.
See research & achievements14+
active faculty research areas across six departments
2
provisional patents filed by student project teams
6
live industry & district-administration partnership projects
100+
papers & conference presentations in the last 3 years
News & upcoming events.
18 Sep 2026
Techsangama 2026 — Annual Technical Fest
Three-day inter-collegiate technical fest with hackathons, robotics and paper-presentation tracks across all six departments.
05 Sep 2026
NBA re-accreditation visit confirmed for CSE, ECE and ME
The National Board of Accreditation team is scheduled to visit in October 2026 as part of the department reaccreditation cycle.
22 Aug 2026
Campus drive: 42 offers across three companies
A three-day placement drive closed with 42 pre-placement and full-time offers spanning CSE, ISE and ECE graduating students.
What students and parents say.
“The project-first approach from third semester onward meant I walked into interviews with things I had actually built, not just coursework I had completed.”
“Having our own PCB fabrication bench changed how I thought about hardware. I stopped treating circuits as diagrams and started treating them as things I had to make work.”
“What convinced us was the manufacturing floor — seeing students actually machining parts, not just watching a demonstration, told us this was a serious engineering programme.”
Admissions for 2026–27 are open.
KCET counselling seats, management quota and lateral entry — see eligibility, seat matrix and how to apply.