The West Bengal University of Technology (WBUT) was started by a committee in 1998, then it came into existence on August 5, 2000. It started functioning with the assumption of office of the first vice chancellor on January 15, 2001 as a sequel to the promulgation of the West Bengal University of Technology Act 2000, under the West Bengal Act XV of 2000 passed by the West Bengal legislature and published in the Calcutta Gazette (Extraordinary) vide Publication dated July 20, 2000.
The Act contemplates a General Council, an Executive Council, an Academic Council, Finance Committee and an Advisory Council as its regulatory and advisory bodies. The University in-house department first started with formerly IIIT-C (Indian Institute of Information Technology-Calcutta) and used to offer BE in Information Technology (Reference: School Of IT, WBUT).Later on, with the need of the industry and policies taken by State Government, for a better and quality engineering and technology education, School of Engineering and Technology - WBUT was formed which is in action still now, along with School of Biotechnology and Biological Sciences (SBBS - WBUT), School of Management and Natural Sciences (SOMNS - WBUT). Currently the in-house Department of Information Technology, Computer science & engineering, Electronics Engineering(different its sub parts), Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and civil engineering of the university ( self-financing University Department at government services in shift co operation some respected colleges such as Bidhannagar government college and university school) offers B.Tech in CSE, B.Tech in IT, B.Tech in ECE, EEE, ETE, B.Tech in EE, B.Tech in ME and B.Tech in CE, but at the Undergraduate level which is undoubtedly the best CSE-IT department in West Bengal.