Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology

• The institute admits B.Tech students from the rank list of qualified students in the JEE Advanced Examination and M.Tech through GATE.[19]
• For MBA, institute admits candidates from qualification through CAT score.[20]
• For admission to PhD programmes, candidates must have a valid scorecard of: GRE/NET (UGC/CSIR)/NBHM/ DBT/ GPAT/ Rajiv Gandhi National Fellowship/ Maulana Azad National Fellowship/ DST Inspire Award or any similar Fellowship.[21]

Central Library

Opening and closing ranks for each category in JEE Advanced 2016:[22]

The National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) ranked it 134 among engineering colleges in 2020.[23]

Jais
(Amethi)

Sivsagar
(Sivsagar)

Bangalore
(Bangalore)

Noida
(DoMS, Noida)

Location of the RGIPT Campuses. Green – Operational at permanent campus, Orange – Running at temporary campus with permanent campus under Construction[14]

• RGIPT offers courses in engineering, pure sciences, management and humanities with a focus on petroleum engineering. The programs and courses offered at RGIPT are changing as the school evolving into a full-fledged petroleum engineering university.
• Admission to the courses of B.Tech is done from candidates appearing for JEE Advanced Examination.
• Admission to the M.Tech courses are done through the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE).
• Admissions to the MBA program is done through the Common Admission Test (CAT). Interviewing cities are Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Kolkata, Lucknow and Jais.
• Admissions to the M.Sc.Tech. and PhD courses are done through examinations conducted by the institute at Jais.
• Entrance examination is held at Sivsagar campus for all diploma engineering courses.

RGIPT has the following departments:[29]

Departmental Blocks

• Department of Petroleum Engineering
• Department of Chemical Engineering
• Department of Management Studies
• Department of Geology
• Department of Chemistry
• Department of Physics
• Department of English
• Department of Mathematics

Main Hostel Building

RGIPT has academic collaboration with the many universities in India and abroad.[30] Some of the major universities which have a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) and share research projects with RGIPT are as follows:[31]

• Texas A&M University, USA
• Kun Shan University, Taiwan
• Chonnam National University, South Korea
• Lund University, Sweden
• Cheng Shiu University, Taiwan
• Louisiana State University, USA
• National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Taiwan
• University of Houston, USA
• Indian Institute of Petroleum, Dehradun
• Faculty of Management Studies, New Delhi
• IIT Kanpur
• IIT Bombay

D-Block of hostel

RGIPT has collaborated with some pioneer institutes for advancements in aviation/aerospace and Rocket Fuels/Petroleum Technology.[32]

• Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur through an MOU has decided to be the mentor of the program.[33][34]
• Fundamentally, the Aerospace program is by IET Raebareli from APJ Abdul Kalam Technical University.
• Currently, the program is running in complete collaboration with Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Uran Akademi.
• MNNIT Allahabad and Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad are providing academic assistance.
• In future, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore is said to be in full-fledged resource (academic and managerial) collaboration with FGIET/ IET Raebareli.[35]

Admission process depends on several factors including aptitude, intellect, personality and learning of the student. The selected students are a group who have qualified at-least one of the required admission tests like JEE-Mains/Advanced, WBJEE, SEE-AKTU and even SATs. The students have been provided residential services in-campus at Ratapur, Raebareli. The educational program will require for transition in between college departments/campuses on an annual even-semester basis.

• The institute started functioning from a leased land from Feroze Gandhi Institute of Engineering and Technology at Rae Bareli as academic center and ITI Township as Residential center for almost 9 years. On 15 October 2016, the institute was moved to its 125-acre newly constructed permanent campus at Jais, Uttar Pradesh. The infrastructure is not completely finished, but is expected to complete within 5 years.[6]
• The new campus is a state-of-the-art campus with air conditioned classrooms having projectors, high definition televisions, computers for the faculty, video conferencing equipment. LAN connectivity has been provided in each room including hostel, classrooms along with permanent WI-FI setup has been provided.[36][37]

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  Campus Building
• 
  Inside campus of RGIPT
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  Department building
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  Tennis court outside hostel
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  Academic Blocks
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  Part of Central Library

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  East side of the Hostel
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  Main Auditorium
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  Inside Classroom
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  Staff apartments
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  Local Train Performance

This is an annual festival of three days of activities including sporting events, talent playoffs and similar activities. It was separated from the annual cultural festival in 2017 and since then, sporting events are held in this festival.[38] In 2019, this event marked its third anniversary as sports were part of annual cultural fest since the beginning of the institute.[39]

Future plans are to include other colleges in this festival to increase the number of participants and increasing budget by fetching more sponsorship. This festival is currently financed by the institute while some of the amount is fetched by sponsorship.[39]

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  Entrance
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  Opening Speech
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  Panel
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  Winners 2019
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  Event Site

During the campus inauguration speech of Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas Shri Dharmendra Pradhan said: “The present central government has come up with many schemes for improving the standard of education in the country and it was our priority to start the RGIPT at the earliest. I assure that the government and private petroleum companies will come here for placements and the youths of Amethi will get accolades in the near future.”[40]

The institute witnessed participation of multitude of companies across varied domains. Students of B.Tech., M.Tech. and MBA outgoing 2016 batch successfully got opportunities across diversified profiles and various functions in the organizational setup. Some of the prominent brands that came for final placements in the past and present were:[41][42]

Union ministers inauguration ceremony of RGIPT

Union ministers lighting up the "Lamp of Knowledge"

• Oil and Natural Gas Corporation
• Oil India
• Bharat Petroleum
• Indian Oil Corporation
• Hindustan Petroleum
• Oil India Limited
• NITI Aayog[43]
• Oil and Natural Gas Corporation
• Reliance Industries Limited
• Bharat Oman Refinery Limited
• HMEL
• American International Group
• Engineers India Limited
• UOP LLC
• Cairn India
• Essar Oil
• Shell Business Operations
• ADANI GAS Ltd.
• Petronet LNG
• Haldia Petrochemicals
• Larsen & Toubro Infotech
• Tech Mahindra
• Global Data
• Globus Spirits
• Avanti Learning Center

Many students from the institute go further with higher education in international universities. The institute recommends the meritorious students to these universities and also helps them in representing India at international conferences across the world.[44][45]

Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh laying foundation stone of RGIPT Assam Campus

Petroleum Minister as chief guest at RGIPT's First Convocation

• Jul 04, 2007: the Union Cabinet approved the setting up of the Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology at Jais in Amethi District of UP.[46]

• Nov 29, 2007: the Rajya Sabha passed the Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology (RGIPT) Bill 2007.[47]

• Dec 3, 2007: the Lok Sabha passed the Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology (RGIPT) Bill 2007.[48]

• Feb 20, 2008: Congress President and UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi lays foundation stone of Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology at Jais.[49]

• 2008–2009: start of academic session.[50]

• 2011: Former Prime Minister of India Manmohan Singh laid the foundations of the Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology (Assam centre).[51]

• 2012: First B.Tech batch passes out.[52]

• 2013: Bangalore centre gets approved.[18]

• 2014: Veerappa Moily, former Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas inaugurates Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology at Kambalipura Village, Hoskote Taluk, Bangalore District.[30]

• 2015: First Convocation was conducted with Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas Dharmendra Pradhan and other high level dignitaries from Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas as Chief Guests.[11]

• 2016: Institute is moved to the permanent campus at Jais.[53]

• Oct 22, 2016: Union ministers, Minister of Textiles Shrimati Smriti Irani, Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas Shri Dharmendra Pradhan and Minister of Human Resource Development Shri Prakash Javadekar, inaugurated the permanent campus at Jais.[54]

Union ministers with students and Faculty of RGIPT

• May 2017: The institute increases the student intake for B.Tech program to 120 seats from 75 seats.[55]

• May 13, 2017: Chief Minister of Assam Sarbananda Sonowal and Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas Shri Dharmendra Pradhan jointly launched the full swing construction work of second campus at Sivasagar, Assam.[16]

• Dec 2017: Sivasagar campus starts academic sessions for diploma in petroleum and chemical streams.[56][57]

• Sept 2018: Bangalore Campus starts academic sessions for 3 M.Tech. courses in the fields of Renewable Energy, Power and Energy Systems Engineering and Energy Science and Technology.

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