BITS Pilani Legacy

​Work-integrated learning is an innovation in education by BITS Pilani, an institute with a history that goes a long way back.​

In 1901, Seth Shiv Naranji Birla established a small pathashala in Pilani, Rajasthan, with one teacher to educate his grandsons, the late Shri G.D. Birla and the late Shri R.D. Birla. The pathashala gradually evolved into a high school in 1925, an intermediate college in 1929, a degree college in 1943, and a postgraduate degree college in 1947. Since its inception, BITS Pilani was known for its excellence in education, which is why during World War II, the Government of India established a Technical Training Centre at Pilani to create technicians for the Defence Services industry.​

In 2000, a strategic plan was made to help BITS Pilani embark on its journey to becoming one of the world’s leading universities. Work-Integrated Learning Programmes were recognised as a significant component in realising this vision, enabling WILP to emerge as India’s leading corporate education provider and the preferred choice for top engineering professionals.

The BITS Mission
"To provide for and promote education and research in the fields of Technology, Science, Humanities, Industry, Business, and Public Administration, and to collate and disseminate effective ideas, methods, techniques and information in these areas to advance the material and industrial welfare of India; and to train young men and women to be able and eager to create and apply such ideas, methods, techniques and information.”