The Birla Institute of Technology & Science, BITS Pilani, is an all-India Institute for higher education. What started in the early 1900s as a small school blossomed into a set of colleges for higher education, ranging from the Humanities to Engineering, until 1964, when all these colleges amalgamated to culminate into a unique Indian University of International standing. It has been consistently ranked high by governmental and private ranking agencies for its innovative processes and capabilities, enabling it to impart quality education and emerge as the best private science and engineering institute in India. The primary motive of BITS is to "train young men and women able and eager to create and put into action such ideas, methods, techniques, and information.” Pioneering teaching-learning experiences like “Intensive Teaching Workshop” for the newly joined faculty, continuous faculty development programs, and cutting-edge research give BITS Pilani its name. In recognition of the high standard that BITS Pilani strives to uphold, University Grant Commission, in 2018, declared it an “Institute of Eminence” (IOE).