New Delhi:  JEE Main 2017 results were declared on 27 March 2017. The admission to BTech courses in the prestigious National Institutes of Technology or popularly known as NITs will be based on JEE Main 2017 scores. In India, there are 31 NITs.

As of 2017, the total number of seats for undergraduate programs is 18,013 and for post graduate programs is 8,158 in all 31 NITs. Since 2015, the Joint Seat Allocation Authority (JoSAA) and Centralized Counselling for M.Tech/M.Arch and MPlan (CCMT) are responsible for conducting the admission process for undergraduate and postgraduate programs respectively in all NITs.

Among 31 NITs, National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, is crowned as the best NITs in India, as per India Ranking Report 2017, released by Ministry of Human Resources Development (HRD) under NIRF 2017. NIT  Tiruchirappalli stands at 11^th place among the engineering institutes category of NIRF 2017. National Institute of Technology Rourkela, Odisha, bags second position among NITs with overall ranking of 12^th in the engineering category.

National Institute of Technology, Surathkal, Karnataka secures third place while National Institute of Technology, Warangal, Andhra Pradesh  finds fourth spot among NITs with overall position of 22^nd and 34^th places, respectively in the engineering category.

Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh features at the fifth place among NITs while Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur, secures sixth place among NITs with overall position of 42. National Institute of Technology Calicut, Kerala stands seventh place among NITs with overall rank of 44.

Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, Surat finds 8^th place while National Institute of Technology, Silchar, Assam finds ninth spot among NITs. National Institute of Technology Durgapur, West Bengal secures tenth spot with overall ranking of 55 among engineering institutes in India.

The other top fifteen NITs are as followed: National Institute of Technology Hamirpur, Himachal Pradesh (11^th rank among NITs,  59^th among engineering category); National Institute of Technology,Kurukshetra, Haryana (12^th rank among NITs,  60^th among engineering category); Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, Bhopal, Madya Pradesh (13^th among NITs, 61 among engineering category); Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur (14^th among NITs, 70 among engineering category);  National Institute of Technology Manipur, Manipur (15^th rank among NITs, 87 among engineering category).

National Institute of Technology, Meghalaya stands at the 100^th spot among the engineering institutes in India.

A total of 16 NITs feature among top 100 engineering institutes.  A total of nine NITs feature among India’s to 50 engineering institutes.

List of Best National Institutes of Technology (NITs) with ranking among engineering institutes as per NIRF 2017:

1. National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu (11)
2. National Institute of Technology Rourkela (12 )
3. National Institute of Technology, Surathkal, Karnataka (22 )
4. National Institute of Technology, Warangal, Andhra Pradesh (34)
5. Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh
6. Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur (42)
7. National Institute of Technology, Calicut (46)
8. Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, Surat (50)
9. National Institute of Technology, Silchar, Assam (53)
10. National Institute of Technology Durgapur, West Bengal (55)
11. National Institute of Technology Hamirpur, Himachal Pradesh (59)
12. National Institute of Technology,Kurukshetra, Haryana (60 )
13. Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, Bhopal, Madya Pradesh (61)
14. Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur (70)
15. National Institute of Technology Manipur, Manipur (87)
16. National Institute of Technology, Meghalaya (100)