KIIT was established in 1992 as an Industrial Training Institute with only 12 students and 2 faculties. This institution was the brainchild of Pradyumna Bal, Achyuta Samanta,P.K Mishra,C.R Mishra who had altogether envisioned a profound center of learning in India and so pursued to lay the foundation of KIIT. In 1997, the School of Technology and the School of Computer Application was established
. In 2004 it was conferred the status of university, becoming the youngest institute to get university status in India and entered the Limca Book of Records. School of Biotechnology, School of Rural Management, School of Medicine and KIIT Law School were started in 2007. In 2009 five new schools, School of Mass Communication, School of Design, School of Film Studies School of Tourism and Hospitality Management and School of Sculpture has been established. The Kalinga Institute of Medical Sciences and Kalinga Institute of Dental Sciences came under the ambit of KIIT University in August, 2009. Currently more than 15000 students are enrolled in various courses of the university
