Harcourt Butler Technical University

Harcourt Butler Technical University is a government technical university located at Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh in India. The HBTU was named after Sir Spencer Harcourt Butler, governor of the United Provinces in British India. All Its programs have been conferred in autonomous status under the university. It is one of the oldest engineering institutes in the country and holds the ISO 9001:2000 certification. It offers Bachelors, Masters, and Doctoral programs in engineering, as well as Masters programs in Business Administration, and Computer Applications.In 1959, when the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur was established, its classes were initially held in the canteen building of HBTU until IITK had its own campus. HBTU is the mother institute of the National Sugar Institute, the Government Central Textile Institute, now known as the Uttar Pradesh Textile Technology Institute, and the Glass Institute. It was also one of the 127 technical institutions in India which were the recipients of funding from World Bank's International Development Association in the phase one of the Technical Engineering Educational Quality Improvement Project - the first World Bank project in Higher education in India.