National Institutes of Technology (India)

National Institutes of Technology (NIT)s are premier schools of engineering and technology education in India. They were originally called as Regional Engineering Colleges (RECs). In 2002, the Union Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India, decided to upgrade, in phases, all 17 Regional Engineering Colleges (RECs) as National Institutes of Technology (NITs), on the lines of the prestigious Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs).

There are currently 17 of them. Their list is as follows :

• Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute Of Technology, Surat
• Malviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur
• Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, Bhopal
• Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad
• National Institute of Technology, Trichy
• National Institute of Technology, Surathkal
• National Institute of Technology, Rourkela
• National Institute of Technology, Calicut
• National Institute of Technology, Durgapur
• National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur
• National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra
• National Institute of Technology, Warangal
• National Institute of Technology, Jamshedpur
• National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar
• National Institute of Technology, Silchar
• National Institute of Technology, Nagpur

External links

1. Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute Of Technology, Surat
2. Malviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur
3. Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, Bhopal
4. Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad
5. NIT Trichy
6. NIT Surathkal
7. NIT Rourkela
8. NIT Calicut
9. NIT Durgapur
10. NIT Hamirpur
11. NIT Kurukshetra
12. NIT Warangal
13. NIT Jamshedpur
14. NIT Jalandhar
15. NIT Silchar
16. Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur