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Vishwakarma Institute of Technology (VIT) is an engineering college affiliated to the University of Pune, India. It was established in 1984. The school is financed and run by the Bansilal Ramanath Agrawal Charitable Trust. Currently Mr. H. K. Abhyankar is the principal of the institute, which is known for educating some of the top engineers in India. The college is situated in Bibwewadi, Pune.

Bachelors and Masters* degrees are offered in the following departments

• Mechanical engineering
• Electronics engineering and Electronics & Telecommunications Engineering
• Computer engineering and Information Technology engineering
• Industrial and Production engineering
• Instrumentation engineering
• Chemical engineering

Other allied departments are

• Civil engineering
• Mathematics
• Applied physics
• Electrical engineering

[*The Institute offers several Master's courses in the Mechanical and Computer Engineering desciplines.]

This college is considered to be one of the top and best college in Pune, and Maharashtra. It has an excellent record for campus placements.

To provide quality education in the field of Information Technology, a sister institute, Vishwakarma Institute of Information Technology (VIIT), was established in 2002. Courses offered here are Electronics engineering, Electronics and Telecommunication engineering, Computer engineering and Information Technology.

Vishwakarma Institute of Technology has a committee called Social Activity Committee. This committee has undertaken different activities such as Blood Donation Camp, Abhyasika, Lecture Series Organisation, Relief Funds. The committee was formally established in 2004 to group all the ongoing activities. Prof. H.M. Khare is Staff incharge of Social Activity Committee. Committee has a student secretary to co-ordinate all the activities. Former secretaries are

• Advait Athavale (2004-2005)
• Sameer Borwankar (2005-2006)

• Vishwakarma Institute Of Technology
• Vishwakarma Institute of Information Technology

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