The Institute of Technology or IT-BHU is the engineering school of Banaras Hindu University (BHU) in Varanasi. It is one of India\'s oldest and highest-ranked engineering colleges. Like the rest of BHU, it is a residential and co-educational institute. The University is situated in a magnificent main campus spread over nearly 1300 acres at the southern end of the ancient city of Varanasi on the banks of the holy river Ganga and another campus of 2700 acres. The admission for undergraduate students is through Indian Institutes Of Technology - Joint Entrance Examination and for post-graduates is through Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE). Since its inception, the Institute of Technology, BHU has not only evolved to become a premier educational institution producing Graduates Technocrats and Entrepreneurs, but has remodeled itself into an educational beacon which provides versatile postgraduate training and conducts sophisticated research in Engineering and Technology. IT-BHU is now scheduled to become India\'s 16th IIT and the first that will bear in its name link to another institution viz BHU.