BK Birla Institute of Engineering & Technology, Pilani
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BK Birla Institute of Engineering & Technology (BKBIET) is an engineering college
Engineering college
Engineering colleges generally refer to institutes of higher education which offer an engineering course at degree level. The duration of the course is four to five years depending upon the university to which the college is affiliated. The students learn little of basic science concentrating...

 affiliated to Rajasthan Technical University
Rajasthan Technical University
Rajasthan Technical University is an affiliating university located in Kota in the state of Rajasthan, India. The university was established in 2006. Formerly it was Engineering College, Kota.-Location:...

 and located in Pilani
Pilani
Pilani is a small town situated in the Shekhawati region of Rajasthan. It is in the Jhunjhunu district in Rajasthan, India. It notable for being the home of a large number of education institutes for its size.-Etymology:...

, Rajasthan
Rajasthan
Rājasthān the land of Rajasthanis, , is the largest state of the Republic of India by area. It is located in the northwest of India. It encompasses most of the area of the large, inhospitable Great Indian Desert , which has an edge paralleling the Sutlej-Indus river valley along its border with...

, India
India
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. It was founded in 2007 by Krishnarpan Charity Trust
Krishnarpan Charity Trust
Krishnarpan Charity Trust was founded by Sir Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Ghanshyam Das Birla & Maniben Patel. Presently the trust is headed by Basant Kumar Birla. The trust founded BK Birla Institute of Engineering & Technology, Pilani in the year 2007....

 as its technical wing in the chairmanship of Basant Kumar Birla
Basant Kumar Birla
Basant Kumar Birla is the son of Ghanshyam Das Birla,, the father of the late Aditya Birla, Grandfather of Kumar Mangalam Birla, brother of Krishna Kumar Birla and Chairman of BK Birla Group, Krishnarpan Charity Trust, BK Birla Institute of Engineering & Technology, Pilani and various educational...

.

Academics

BKBIET is approved by All India Council for Technical Education
All India Council for Technical Education
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 (AICTE). It offers undergraduate programmes in Computer Engineering
Computer engineering
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, Electronics
Electronics
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 & Communication
Communication
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 Engineering, Electrical Engineering
Electrical engineering
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 and Information Technology
Information technology
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 with 60 Seats in each branch. The intake is 15% through All India Engineering Entrance Examination
All India Engineering Entrance Examination
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 (AIEEE), 70% through Rajasthan Pre Entrance Test for Engineering, Architecture and Pharmacy (RPETEAP) and 15% from other schools run by Birla Education Trust.

Student life

The students of BKBIET host a cultural fest, "Basant" and a technical fest "Quasar". Basant started in 2008, initially as a three day event, but from 2010 it become a seven day inter-college cultural fest. It is celebrated in the months of March/April every year.
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