Top NIT Colleges in India

Location Map of Top Ten NIT Colleges in India

NITs (National Institutes of Technology) are premier public engineering colleges in India. After IITs, they are considered the most important in terms of ranking for engineering education.

Brief History

NITs started as Regional Engineering Colleges (RECs) in 1959. After 2002, they were treated as sister institutes to the IITs. In 2007, by an Act of Parliament, NITs were declared as "Institutes of National Importance".

Admission

To get admission in B.Tech at NITs, you have to crack the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Main.

Top 5 NIT Ranking 2020

The latest NIT rankings based on NIRF (National Institutional Ranking Framework) ranking (with score) among all institutions are given below -

NIT Tiruchirappalli (Tamil Nadu) - 9 (64.10)
NIT Surathkal (Karnataka) - 13 (61.30)
NIT Rourkela (Odisha) – 16 (59.29)
NIT Warangal (Telangana) - 19 ( 57.76)
NIT Calicut (Kerala) - 23 (56.56)

Check out the entire list of NIT colleges, the top 10 ranks, contact details and location:

Top 10 NIT Colleges in India 2020
Rank	Name of The College	NIRF Ranking 2020	Est.	Address	State	Phone No.	Website / E-mail	Score
1	National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli	9	1964	Tanjore Main Road, National Highway 67, Near BHEL Trichy, Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu 620015	Tamil Nadu	+91-431-2500133	https://www.nitt.edu/	64.10
2	National Institute of Technology Karnataka	13	1960	NH 66, Srinivas Nagar, Surathkal, Surathkal, Mangaluru, Karnataka 575025	Karnataka	0824 247 4000	https://www.nitk.ac.in/	61.30
3	National Institute of Technology Rourkela	16	1961	Sector - 2, Rourkela, Odisha 769008	Odisha	+91661 246 2020	nitrkl.ac.in	59.29
4	National Institute of Technology Warangal	19	1959	National Institute of Technology Campus, Warangal, Telangana 506004	Telangana	+91 9491065002	https://www.nitwaa.in/	57.76
5	National Institute of Technology Calicut	23	1961	Calicut Mukkam Road, Kattangal, Kerala 673601	Kerala	0495 228 6106	http://www.nitc.ac.in/	56.56
6	Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology	27	1960	South Ambazari Road, Nagpur, Maharashtra. Pin 440010	Maharashtra	+91-712-2224123	http://vnit.ac.in/	54.76
7	Malaviya National Institute of Technology	35	1963	Jawahar Lal Nehru Marg, Jhalana Gram, Malviya Nagar, Jaipur, Rajasthan 302017	Rajasthan	0141 252 9087	http://www.mnit.ac.in/	52.25
8	National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra	40	1963	Near Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, Thanesar, Haryana 136119	Haryana	01744-233208	http://www.nitkkr.ac.in/	51.19
9	National Institute of Technology Silchar	46	1967	NIT Road, Fakiratilla, Silchar, Assam 788010	Assam	03842 242 273	http://www.nits.ac.in/	48.66
10	National Institute of Technology Durgapur	47	1960	Mahatma Gandhi Rd, A-Zone, Durgapur, West Bengal 713209	West Bengal	0343 275 4680	https://nitdgp.ac.in/	48.39

Source: https://www.nirfindia.org/Ranking2020.html (2020)

List of NIT Colleges in India
Name	Short Name	Location	State/UT	Website
NIT Agartala	NITA	Agartala	Tripura	nitagartala.in
Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad	MNNIT	Allahabad	Uttar Pradesh	mnnit.ac.in
NIT Arunachal Pradesh	NITAP	Yupia	Arunachal Pradesh	nitap.in/
Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology	MANIT	Bhopal	Madhya Pradesh	manit.ac.in
National Institute of Technology Calicut	NITC	Kozhikode	Kerala,Lakshadweep	nitc.ac.in
NIT Delhi	NITD	New Delhi	Chandigarh,Delhi	nitdelhi.ac.in
NIT Durgapur	NITDGP	Durgapur	West Bengal	nitdgp.ac.in
NIT Goa	NITG	Farmagudi	Goa	nitgoa.ac.in
NIT Puducherry	--	Karaikal	Pondicherry	nitpy.ac.in
NIT Hamirpur	NITH	Hamirpur	Himachal Pradesh	nith.ac.in
Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur	MNIT	Jaipur	Rajasthan	mnit.ac.in
NIT Manipur	--	Imphal	Manipur	nitmanipur.in
NIT Meghalaya	NITM	Shillong	Meghalaya	nitm.ac.in
NIT Mizoram	NITMZ	Aizawl	Mizoram	nitmz.ac.in/
NIT Nagaland	NITN	Dimapur	Nagaland	nitnagaland.ac.in
Dr. B. R. Ambedkar National Institute of Technology Jalandhar	NITJ	Jalandhar	Punjab	nitj.ac.in
NIT Jamshedpur	NITJSR	Jamshedpur	Jharkhand	nitjsr.ac.in
NIT Kurukshetra	NITKKR	Kurukshetra	Haryana	nitkkr.ac.in
Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology	VNIT	Nagpur	Maharashtra	vnit.ac.in
NIT Patna	NITP	Patna	Bihar	nitp.ac.in
NIT Raipur	NITRR	Raipur	Chhattisgarh	nitrr.ac.in
NIT Rourkela	NITRKL	Rourkela	Odisha	nitrkl.ac.in
NIT Sikkim	NITSK	Ravangla	Sikkim	nitsikkim.ac.in
NIT Silchar	NITS	Silchar	Assam	www.nits.ac.in
NIT Srinagar	NITSRI	Srinagar	Jammu and Kashmir	www.nitsri.net
S V National Institute of Technology, Surat	SVNIT	Surat	Gujarat	svnit.ac.in
NIT Karnataka	NITK	Surathkal	Karnataka	nitk.ac.in
NIT Tiruchirappalli	NITT	Tiruchirappalli	Tamil Nadu	nitt.edu
NIT Uttarakhand	NIT UK	Srinagar, Uttarakhand/	Uttarakhand	nituk.com/
NIT Warangal	NITW	Warangal	Andhra Pradesh	nitw.ac.in

Source: Wikipedia

Last Updated on : June 11, 2021