Don Bosco Institute of Technology, Mumbai

The engineering college was established in 2001 by The Bombay Salesian Society. Initially, engineering degree courses were offered in Information Technology, Computer Engineering and Electronics and Telecommunications. In the year 2006, Mechanical Engineering branch was added. The college is directly affiliated with the University of Mumbai.

In 2005, the college was ranked 84 in the list of top technical colleges in India in a Dataquest-IDC-NASSCOM Survey.[2]

Don Bosco Institute of Technology is located at Don Bosco, Kurla campus near the Kohinoor City.

There is a direct bus service from Santa Cruz to Vidyavihar (433). The nearest bus junction is Kamani, which is networked through the BEST buses to Andheri, Kurla, Ghatkopar, Mulund and other places.

There is an football ground, basketball court and it is concretised. There are provisions for indoor games like carrom and table tennis.

There is a chapel on the ground floor.

In 2006, a new wing of the engineering department was inaugurated. This new building now seats the EXTC and mechanical engineering students. The topmost floor houses the Rev. Fr. Santino Mondini Auditorium, which was inaugurated by Fr. Santino Mondini, 94 on the felicitation ceremony of Rector Major Fr. Pascal Chavez, on his visit to India on 8 February 2007.

In 2014, construction on a new wing for the engineering department started. This building has floors allocated for each of the four departments. The administrative office and the principal's office have been moved to this building.

The college, under the University of Mumbai, offers bachelor's degrees in engineering in the following programs:[1]

1. Mechanical engineering - 120 seats
2. Electronics and telecommunications engineering - 60 seats
3. Computer engineering - 60 seats
4. Information technology - 60 seats

The program is divided into 8 semesters spread over 4 years. Granted a religious minority quota, 51% of all seats are reserved for Roman Catholics.

The College has an annual inter-college technical festival organized by the student committee which is called "Colosseum". The college has started "Hysteria" from 2016 onwards, which is the cultural and sports mega fest for all the institutions that come under DBCL. At the end of even semester, each year the final year students have 'Innovex' where they showcase their final year projects which are then reviewed by a jury of acknowledged judges

The college also organizes Teknack, a 2-day inter-collegiate online technical festival.[3] It started off as a intra college online festival, and is organised every year in the month of February.[4]

Besides this there are many other intra-college sports events for the students throughout the year like cricket, rink football, basketball and other indoor games. The Mechanical Department started the Mechanical Premier League an innovative rink football tournament adapting the modern day transfers and bidding's for players in the campus with 8 teams and 8 managers.

As of 2014, the institution has started inter college football and basketball tournaments. It has also started the Don Bosco Premiere League football tournament and Don Bosco Cricket League cricket tournament which also follows the bidding concept used during the Mechanical Premier League.

• Don Bosco College of Engineering