Adichunchanagiri Institute of Technology (AIT) was established in the year 1980 at Chikkamagaluru, with the blessings of revered Jagadguru Padmabhushana Sri Sri Sri Dr. Balagangadharanatha Maha Swamiji, pontiff, of Sri Adichunchanagiri Maha Samsthana Math.
The Institute has highly qualified and experienced faculty with a reputation in their areas of specialization, well-equipped laboratories, seminar halls with projectors, sufficient books and periodicals in the library, hygienic canteen facility with hostels for both girls and boys, a huge amphitheater for cultural exposure and fleet of buses for transportation.