History
Coimbatore Institute of Technology was founded in 1956 by Prof P. R. Ramakrishnan, son of a wealthy Industrialist, after graduating from MIT Sloan School of Management in the USA. He was also one of the earliest Indians to graduate from MIT. The trust was formed under the name V. Rangaswamy Naidu Educational Trust.
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