The National Institutes of Technology (NITs) are the central government-owned-public technical institutes under the ownership of the Ministry of Education, Government of India. They are governed by the National Institutes of Technology, Science Education and Research Act, 2007, which declared them as institutions of national importance and lays down their powers, duties, and framework for governance. In 2019, the first IIEST was added under the Council of NITSER. The act lists thirty-two NITs.[2] The oldest NIT is now IIEST Shibpur. Each NIT is autonomous, linked to the others through a common council known as the Council of NITSER, which oversees their administration, and all NITs are funded by the Government of India
NIT Seats Matrix-
NIT Name
Total Seats
SC Reservation %
ST Reservation %
NIT Agartala
1059
15%
18%
NIT Calicut
1244
14%
7%
NIT Delhi
182
14%
7%
NIT Durgapur
909
14%
7%
NIT Goa
188
14%
7%
NIT Hamirpur
944
14%
7%
NIT Karnataka
981
14%
7%
NIT Meghalaya
151
10%
41%
NIT Nagaland
236
6%
45%
NIT Patna
813
14%
7%
NIT Puducherry
243
13%
7%
NIT Raipur
1197
14%
7%
NIT Sikkim
161
15%
7%
NIT Arunachal Pradesh
190
11%
36%
NIT Jamshedpur
751
14%
7%
NIT Kurukshetra
1147
14%
7%
NIT Manipur
180
9%
17%
NIT Mizoram
150
13%
7%
NIT Rourkela
1234
14%
7%
NIT Silchar
884
14%
7%
NIT Srinagar
889
14%
7%
NIT Tiruchirappalli
1036
13%
7%
NIT Uttarakhand
80
18%
9%
NIT Warangal
945
14%
7%
NIT Bhopal
1173
14%
7%
NIT Allahabad
1074
14%
7%
NIT Jaipur
909
14%
7%
NIT Jalandhar
1122
14%
7%
NIT Surat
1091
14%
7%
NIT Nagpur
946
14%
7%
NIT Shibpur
764
14%
7%
NIT Andhra Pradesh
603
14%
7%
Types of Degree Programmes Offered in NITs
NITs are the most prominent engineering colleges in India after the IITs. They offer various undergraduate and postgraduate programmes and admission to most of the programmes is entrance based. The most popular undergraduate programmes offered by NITs are BTech and B.Arch while MBA and MTech are the popular postgraduate programmes.