Birla Institute of Technology and Science Campus: Classrooms, Hostels, Other Amenities

Private University|Estd. 2004

BITS Pilani’s K. K. Birla Goa Campus provides a comprehensive range of facilities designed to support students’ academic, residential, and recreational needs. The campus features a well-equipped central library, modern computer center, air-conditioned classrooms, specialized laboratories, and a CISCO telepresence room for video communication. Fully residential hostels, spacious dining halls, and a shopping complex cater to daily living needs. For recreation, students have access to the Student Activity Centre, indoor and outdoor sports facilities, and a swimming pool. Birla Institute of Technology and Science Campus also offers a medical center with 24/7 services, counseling support, a guest house for visitors, and secured Wi-Fi connectivity throughout, ensuring a holistic environment for learning, research, and personal development.

Facilities	Description
Central Library	The library offers creatively designed seating halls, a digital library with internet access, and an extensive collection of books and periodicals. It also provides wireless access and subscriptions to resources like IEEE Xplore, Science Direct, and ACM DL.
Computer Centre	The computer centre has 300 workstations from DELL and Lenovo, along with a campus-wide LAN of 3000 nodes providing intranet and internet facilities across academic blocks, hostels, and other areas.
Classrooms and Labs	Classrooms are centrally air-conditioned and equipped with computers, projectors, screens, and speakers, while specialised laboratories support research in areas like nonlinear optics, solid-state physics, and genetic engineering.
Video Communication	The campus features a CISCO telepresence conference room that enables high-quality multipoint teleconferencing and supports interactive lectures between BITS campuses.
Hostels	The campus is fully residential with separate hostels for boys and girls, offering furnished rooms with beds, wardrobes, study tables, internet access, common rooms with recreational facilities, purified drinking water, and geysers.
Mess and Food	Two large dining halls with a seating capacity of 1200 students are available, with mess services managed by students and menus regularly updated, along with additional food outlets and canteens.
Shopping Complex	The shopping complex includes a supermarket, a vegetable and fruit shop, a cafeteria, a salon, a beauty parlour, a laundry service, and a bookstore, as well as an HDFC bank with an ATM.
Student Activity Centre (SAC)	The SAC is the hub for student activities and offers a wide range of indoor sports such as badminton, table tennis, billiards, squash, and a dance room, along with a modern gymnasium.
Outdoor Sports	Outdoor sports facilities include cricket and football grounds, volleyball, lawn tennis, basketball, and futsal courts, as well as a swimming pool and dedicated cricket practice pitches.
Medical Centre	The medical centre provides primary healthcare services round-the-clock with modern equipment, a pharmacy, clinical laboratory services, ambulance support, and hospital tie-ups for advanced care.
Counseling	Students can access counselling services through the student welfare division and seek guidance from faculty advisors and hostel superintendents.
Guest House	Visitors are accommodated at the campus’s Guest House, which offers excellent boarding and lodging facilities.
Wi-Fi	The entire campus, including buildings, hostels, and common areas, is covered with secured wireless connectivity.