Maharaja Agrasen Institute of Technology

MAIT Administration Block
Type	Engineering College
Established	1999
President	Dr. M. L. Goyal
Academic staff	200
Location	New Delhi, India
Campus	Urban, 40.50 acres (16.39 ha)
Acronym	MAIT
Affiliations	GGSIPU
Website	mait.ac.in

Maharaja Agrasen Institute of Technology (MAIT) is a public–private partnership engineering college, located in New Delhi, India. One of the reputed engineering colleges of India, MAIT has 10 departments (Five-Engineering, Four-Research and Three-Auxiliary). It is affiliated to the Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi and is among the top 5 engineering colleges in New Delhi.

Campus

The MAIT campus is located in Rohini Sector-22, North Delhi, spread over an area of 40.5 acres (164,000 m²). The campus has 12 blocks namely:

• Block 1: For Computer Science Engineering(CSE) Department
• Block 2: For Mechanical and Automation Engineering(MAE) Department
• Block 3: Previously used for 1st year B.Tech. students (common), now it is known as department of law.
• Block 4: For Electronics and Communication Engineering(ECE) Department
• Block 5: For BBA and MBA (MAIMS) Department
• Block 6: For Electronics and Electrical Engineering(EEE) Department
• Block 7: For BJMC Department
• Block 8: For Information Technology(IT) Department
• Block 9: For 1st year B.Tech. students (common)
• Administrative Block

MAIT campus has a multi-storey boy's hostel, an under-construction girl's hostel, a multi-storey library, an amphitheatre, a main auditorium, a mini auditorium, a separate building for badminton courts, a ground, two canteens and two photocopy shops. There is a branch of Union Bank of India and an ATM branch of Oriental Bank of Commerce and Bank Of Baroda. .^[1]

Rankings

MAIT has been ranked as the 9th best engineering college^[2] in India by the DataQuest Magaize for the year 2014-15. It has also been ranked at 70 among engineering colleges in India by the The Week-Hansa survey conducted by The Week magazine,^[3] and also the 27th best private engineering college in India by the same magazine. The college has been rated AAA+ by Careers 360 (Magazine) Top Engineering Colleges in India 2015.^[4] The alumni of the college are in prestigious Institutes such as Indian School Of Business(ISB) and companies Advance Micro Devices(AMD), Reckitt Benckiser & Nokia.

Student life

• The college has active ACM, IEEE, CSI and SAE student wings in the college along with the 'Green Concept', a green initiative by the students of the college.
• An Entrepreneurial Development Cell (EDC) has been set up to help the potential graduates with the future options. The college has a very active start-up scene.
• The music, theatrical and dance societies – Aura,Lords, Aayaam etc. – are rated amongst the best in the region.
• Genesis, is the annual Management & Cultural festival, organized by MBA Department.
• Sportz, is the annual sports fest, exclusively held by and for the students of the college across 10 different sports over a period of two days.
• Techsurge, is the annual inter college technical fest featuring many technical events.
• Mridang, the annual inter college cultural fest of MAIT is witnessed during the even semester of every academic year organized by the BTech department, that attracts attendances running into several hundreds. The fest has events like music, dance, street plays, fashion parade, pop-show, a Kavi Sammelan, that saw humorist-satirist Dr. Kumar Vishwas (in 2012), comedian Nitin Gupta (Rivaldo - in 2013), poets from Sab TV's show, "Wah! Wah! Kya Baat Hai!" (in 2014). Also Armaggedon (Battle of Bands), Desi Beats (Group Dance) and a Star Night that has featured the likes of Mika, Bombay Rockers and Jal main eventing in recent years.
• Downtown Cafe Canteen, which serves a huge variety of foods ranging from north indian, south indian to chinese and continental delicacies. Also there is an AMUL milk kiosk in the campus, which serves a variety of milkshakes, ice-creams, and various other dairy drinks.

MAIT Library  MAIT Auditorium  MAIT Techsurge  Jal Performing in Mridang 2010

References

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