BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE PILANI,HYDERABAD CAMPUS

BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus is one of the five constituent campuses of the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, located in Hyderabad, India. The campus's foundation stone was laid on 27 April 2007 in the presence of the then Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, and the institute became a functioning entity in 2008, with its first batch graduating in 2012. It is a technical and research institute focused on Engineering and Sciences, and it has taken charge of developing courses for Electronics and Communications Engineering due to Hyderabad's talent pool in that area. The campus conducts research and development projects with collaborators such as DST-SERC, UGC, NPMASS, and AstraZeneca, and hosts a Center of Excellence in MEMS, Microfluidics and Nanoelectronics. Admission to undergraduate programmes is through the BITS Admission Test (BITSAT), with provisions for state and national board toppers and, since 2015, international students via SAT Subject Tests. The campus underwent a second phase of construction beginning in 2016, with an additional 75 acres allocated, making it the largest physical campus of BITS Pilani. It hosts various events including Pearl, ATMOS, Arena, TEDxBITSHyderabad, and Verba Maximus.