The Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani
is an All-India Institute for higher education deemed to be
a University by the Government of India. BITS is recognized
as a leading Indian Centre of technical training. It is one
of the very few nationally and internationally recognized
Indian Institutes that is a non-governmental organization.
BITS was founded by Late Shri G.D.Birla and subsequently
developed with the support of the Birla family, who run
India's largest private sector business house.
For over 25 years, BITS has provided the highest quality
technical education to students from all over India admitted
on the basis of merit. Its graduates may be found throughout
the world in all areas of engineering, science and commerce.
BITS symbolizes the maturing of Indian technical ability and
"can-do" entrepreneurial spirit, especially as derived from
the private sector. BITS is located in the Vidya Vihar
campus adjacent to the town of Pilani in Rajasthan. It is
about 200 km west of Delhi and about 220 km north of Jaipur.
Situated at 75 .55 E - 28 .2N, Pilani houses one of the most
prestigious Institutions in India. The Birla Institute of
Technology and Science was registered as a society under the
Rajasthan Societies Registration Act 1958 on 13 May 1964 and
later on 27th June 1964, was given the status of a Deemed
University by the Ministry of Education, Government of
India.
BITS is located in the Vidya Vihar campus adjacent to Pilani
town in Rajasthan. Pilani is the hometown of the Birla
family and has a population of about thirty thousand. It is
about two hundred kilometres west of Delhi and about two
hundred and twenty kilometres north of Jaipur. The
temperatures during the year go to extremes like 49oC in
summer and 0oC in winter. The climate is generally dry and
healthy. Annual rainfall is about 30 centimetres.
The Institute buildings, hostels and residential quarters
for staff with neatly laid out roads, lawns and gardens
constitute the BITS Campus of about two hundred acres. It is
part of larger Vidya Vihar Campus of about one thousand
acres. Pilani can be reached either by road or rail. The
nearest railway stations are Chirawa and Loharu. There are
connecting buses to Pilani from Chirawa and Loharu. There
are regular bus services from Delhi and Jaipur to Pilani.
There are direct bus services from Ajmer, Bikaner, Hardwar,
Kota, Jodhpur and Chandigarh also. The buses leave Delhi
from the Inter State Bus Terminus, Kashmere Gate and Jaipur
from Rajasthan State Roadways bus stand, Sindhi Camp.The
BITS Campus is very close to the bus stand.
A d m i s s i o n s M o d a l i t y
G e n e r a l I n f o r m a t i o n
Admissions are made on all-India basis. English is the
medium of instruction for all the programmes in the
institute. Selection is based entirely on candidate's
merit,his performance, facilities available and
availability of seats. While admissions are open without
reference to caste, creed, class or sex, some special
consideration is given to candidates belonging to scheduled
castes and scheduled tribes.
I n t e g r a t e d F i r s t D e g r e e P r o g r
a m m e s
The normal input for admission is a pass in 10 + 2 from the
Central/State Board or its equivalent with Physics,
Chemistry, Mathematics and adequate proficiency in English.
The inputs described above should have passed the 12th
examination from a recognized Board / University.
The Institute considers only the latest performance through
a public examination for admission. If the results of the
latest examination are not available within the due date
for submission of application, the candidate will not be
considered even if there are some earlier performances of
10+2 or its equivalent or any higher examination available
with him.
If a candidate has taken more than one attempt in 10+2 or
its equivalent only his latest performance is considered,
provided this attempt has been for the full component of
subjects / courses prescribed.
Where a higher performance beyond 10+2 or its equivalent
through a public examination system is available, the
candidate will be automatically considered under the
provisions of admission with advanced standing.
The 12-years prior preparation described in the earlier
paragraphs also has a provision that the Institute's first
concern shall be for fresh candidates from the 12-year
stream. Any other candidate who have had a gap after the
12-year completion must describe in full detail how the gap
happened and what the candidate did during the gap.
Application form provides appropriate place for supplying
the details. If this gap is not adequately explained to the
satisfaction of the Institute, the candidate will be
disqualified for admission.
However, the structural flexibility permits certain
departures of a marginal kind. While they are described
elsewhere, for purposes of admission, special mention is to
be made of second semester admission, admission with
advanced standing and admission with marginal deficiency.
However, the Institute makes no guarantee that the same
preference and weightage will be given to these marginal
departures.
A g g r e g a t e
Aggregate is the total marks of all subjects considered by
the Board / University for computing result. The
candidate's position in the merit list will be based only
on the aggregate after it has been normalized by a process
known as normalization described later in this part.
For the above purpose the aggregate must contain the
required subjects, namely, Physics, Chemistry and
Mathematics. Most of the boards give the aggregate which
includes all the subjects the student has taken. However,
certain boards like Central Board of Secondary Education,
Council of Indian School Certificate etc., allow students
to take more electives than what is required to pass the
examination and do not give aggregate. In these cases also
the aggregate will be calculated by including the marks of
all the subjects required to pass the examination with a
further proviso that this aggregate must include
Physics,Chemistry and Mathematics. In the case of Central
Board, it will invariably be English / Hindi, Physics,
Chemistry, Mathematics and any other elective. In the case
of Indian School Certificate Examination, it will be
English, Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics.
However, the Institute is aware that the examining boards
may change their methods of operation without giving
adequate prior notice to the Institute. Hence the Institute
reserves its right to meet any fast changing situations by
a procedure which is consistent and gives maximum parity to
all the Boards in the country.
While considering the aggregate performance of the
candidates the Institute may also stipulate a minimum
aggregate in Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics, if the
situation so warrants. In any case if the student has failed
in any one of these subjects, even though he is declared to
have passed the examination through the substitution of an
additional elective etc., he would not be considered for
admission.
Students with foreign qualification should refer to relevant
section appearing later in this part.
N o r m a l i z a t i o n
That disparity exists between the absolute marks awarded to
candidates by the different examining authorities / boards
in the country is well known. To bring all such candidates
on the same scale of comparison and to create a merit list
in linear order, the Institute has been for about 25 years
practicing a system known as normalization. It basically
tries to find the relative displacement of a candidate from
the candidate who stood first in the examination of the
Board from which the candidate under review has passed. If
the number of candidates in each of these Boards is large,
statistically the first rank student of one board will be
equal to that of the first rank student of another board.
As such the first rank student of each board is considered
to have obtained 100% marks and the aggregate marks of all
other students from that board are normalized with
reference to the aggregate marks obtained by the first rank
student of that board.
For example, if the aggregate marks of the first rank
student of a board is 94%, his normalized aggregate is 100%
and if a student from the same Board has obtained 88%
marks, then his normalized percentage will be [88 x 100] /
94 = 93.61. For the purpose of obtaining the required
information from the various examining boards regarding the
highest aggregate marks of the first rank student, the
Institute has been making all efforts sufficiently ahead of
time. By the same token it shall be the responsibility of
the candidate concerned to see that this information is
made available by these examining boards to the Institute.
In the following situations, the Institute reserves the
right to do the normalization on the basis of an estimated
highest marks based on the information of the highest marks
available from the various boards.
Where in respect of named boards the correct information is
not available within the due date either because it has
not been supplied or the information is only in respect of
a stream which does not include Physics, Chemistry and
Mathematics.
Where a State Board or its equivalent does not exist and
the task is shared by several examining authorities of the
state without any one of them being large enough to meet
the statistical requirement.
H i g h e r D e g r e e P r o g r a m m e s
For admission to Higher Degree programmes leading to M.E. /
M.Pharm. / M.Phil., selected candidates are required to
appear for written / oral tests at Pilani / any other
suitable place on their own cost and the admission is made
on the basis of these tests. Prospective candidates will be
channeled into the different programmes on the basis of
actual degree that the candidate possesses. The Institute
is prepared to examine the request for other ambitions and
the appropriate authority will workout the particular
semesterwise programme by evaluating the previous
preparation of the candidate.
Students applying for various On-campus higher degree
programmes will also have an option for selection in M.E.
[Collaborative] in Project Engineering at DCL, Calcutta and
M.S. in Industrial Production and Management at GRASIM,
Nagda. Selected candidates for these programmes will be
provided with suitable stipend by the collaborating
organization.
For admission to M.E. [Collaborative] and M.S. [Industrial
Production and Management] programmes, because of the
unique nature of the programmes, the process of admission
will be elaborate and similar to the process that is
associated with the interview for a job.
P h . D P r o g r a m m e s
For admission to the on-campus Ph.D. programmes of the
Institute, the merit position of the candidate in the
latest examination as well as his performance in a
specially designed admission test and / or interview would
be considered.
P h . D A s p i r a n t s
The Institute offers a unique opportunity for experienced
personnel and professionals in various fields to work
towards Ph.D. degree of the Institute in the settings of
their respective work environments.
F o r e i g n S t u d e n t s
The Institute welcomes foreign students but the admission is
strictly made on the basis of merit. It operates on a case
by case basis. In this operation the Institute realizes
that a comparison within the Indian educational system that
the Institute has followed [normalization] cannot be
automatically extended to systems of examinations outside
the country about which quite often detailed information is
lacking. In these cases the Institute seeks to extend the
same principle and ask for information regarding the
scholastic status of the particular candidate with respect
to the batch in that examination system. The candidates
should enclose, with their application, documents
explaining grading/marking system and calculation of
cumulative grade point average / aggregate percentage of
marks along with their transcript / marksheet. Further the
candidates must send a copy of syllabus of courses and rules
and regulations for the examinations they have passed well
in advance to enable the Institute to determine their
eligibility for admission.
Students having qualifications from foreign countries
should adopt the following method to compute the aggregate:
If actual marks are given in the transcript, these marks
are to be taken for computing aggregate.
If actual marks as well as the grades are given in the
transcript, actual marks are to be taken for computing
aggregate.
If grades and range of marks for each grade is given in
the transcript, mean of the range of marks are to be taken
for computing aggregate.
If grades only are given in the transcript, the student
should obtain from appropriate authority equivalent marks /
range of marks for the grades and calculate the aggregate
marks.
If the evaluation is done by any other method, the student
should explain the evaluation system and should obtain from
appropriate authority equivalent marks / range of marks for
such evaluation and calculate aggregate marks.
All courses / subjects required for passing the examination
/ award of High School diploma/award of International
Baccalaureate should be included for calculating aggregate.
Detailed calculation of aggregate with supporting documents
should be enclosed.
Students should request the examining authorities to send
the transcript / marksheet with relevant documents directly
to :-
A d m i s s i o n s O f f i c e r
B I T S , P i l a n i
R a j a s t h a n
I n d i a - 3 3 3 0 3 1.
Admission is strictly made on merit based on aggregate marks
after normalization.If the required data is not available,
the application is considered as incomplete. A specially
appointed committee examines all applicants with foreign
qualifications and a decision is taken on a case by case
basis.
The Institute reserves the right to work out the
possibility of identifying targeted foreign students in
collaboration with the Ministry of Human Resource
Development and the Ministry of External Affairs to offer
admissions to meritorious foreign students at the first
degree and at the higher degree levels.
G r a d u a t e s o f B I TS
Candidates who come with a degree where the structure and
the features of the programme are those that they pursued
at BITS or institutions similar to BITS are naturally ready
to fit more effectively into the BITS educational system.
This experience prompts the Institute often to describe the
prior preparation for another degree in the same tier or a
degree in a higher tier in terms of not only a minimum
qualification but the specific courses which he should have
done.
C a s u a l S t u d e n t s
Persons, other than regular students of BITS who desire to
register for some courses to update their knowledge are
designated as casual students. Casual students can register
for courses on audit only and cannot enroll for a degree.
The facility of taking a course on audit is principally
conceived to give an opportunity to a person to update his
knowledge and he cannot claim acceptance of such a course
for the fulfillment of requirements of any programme,
current or future.
This scheme has been devised to take care of professional
persons from various industries and organizations who
expressed a desire to update their knowledge, although they,
ipso-facto, have no desire to work for a degree.
Persons desiring to register as casual students should
apply on the prescribed form within the last date. Whenever
such a student is admitted he may be allowed to continue as
a student for a maximum period of eight registered
semesters. However, he should request at the end of every
semester for permission to continue him as a casual student
in the succeeding semester.
Birla Institute of Technology and Science
P i l a n i , R a j a s t h a n
P i n c o d e - 3 3 3 0 3 1
I N D I A
Director
[Prof. S Venkateswaran]
Tel: -1596- 42090, 42215
