Information Technology is an interdisciplinary field primarily concerned with the analysis, collection, classification, manipulation, storage, retrieval and dissemination of information. To create the Information Technocrats, Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Technology pioneer the Department of Information Technology in the year 2002 with the sanctioned intake of 60 students. The course is approved by AICTE, New Delhi, affiliated to University of Mumbai and ISO 9001-2008 certified. The department at RGIT is creating tomorrow's knowledge society.

Students, faculty, and staff collaborate to unite technology, people, and information to make a fundamental difference in this knowledge society, a society in which citizens collaboratively and freely create and share knowledge and utilize information and technology to promote growth, prosperity, and well-being.