Coimbatore Institute of Technology (CIT), was established in the year 1956. With the aim of spreading professional learning with industrial training expertise, the Institute was founded by the V. Rangaswamy Naidu Educational Trust (VRET). The college is a government-aided, autonomous engineering college. It was made autonomous in 1987. CIT was initially affiliated to the Madras University till 1980, after which the affiliation was transferred to the Bharathiar University. The Institute is now under the affiliation of Anna University (from 2001).