New Delhi: The National Institutes of Technology (NITs), India’s top technology and engineering institutes, are autonomous public institutes of higher education in India and are declared as Institute of National Importance. As of 2019, the total number of seats for undergraduate programs was 21,133 and for postgraduate programs 10,550 in all the NITs put together.
For admission for MTech programmes CCMT 2020 (Centralized Counselling For M.Tech./M.Arch./M.Plan Admissions), all NITs are offering 10, 219 seats. The Admission for BTech programmes has not been started due to COVID 19 pandemic.
Among 32 NITs, National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, is crowned as the best NITs in India, as per India Ranking Report Engineering Category 2019, released by Ministry of Human Resources Development (HRD) under National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) 2019. NIT Tiruchirappalli stands at 10 place among the engineering institutes category of NIRF 2019. National Institute of Technology Rourkela, Odisha, bags second position among NITs with overall ranking of 16th in the engineering category.
Here, it can be mentioned that Ministry of HRD has not released NIRF 2020 due to Corona Virus Pandemic.
Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur (WB) secures third spot with overall ranking at All India Level at 19th place. National Institute of Technology, Surathkal, Karnataka secures fourth place while National Institute of Technology, Warangal, Andhra Pradesh finds fifth spot among NITs with overall position of 21nd and 26th places, respectively in the engineering category.
NIT Calicut stands at 28th place while NIT Nagpur bags seventh spot. NIT Kurukshetra secures 8th spot among NITs. NIT Allahabad and NIT Durgapur secure 9th and 10th place respectively.
A total of 19 NITs feature among top 100 engineering institutes. A total of ten NITs feature among India’s to 50 engineering institutes.
NIT Trichy is only NIT that stands among Top 10 Engineering Institutes as per NIRF 2019.
List of Best National Institutes of Technology (NITs) with ranking among engineering institutes as per NIRF 2019:
National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu (All India Rank Engineering Rank -10)
National Institute of Technology Rourkela (All India Rank Engineering Rank – 16 )
Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur (WB) (19)
National Institute of Technology, Surathkal, Karnataka (21 )
National Institute of Technology, Warangal, Andhra Pradesh (26)
National Institute of Technology Calicut (28)
Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur (31)
National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra (41)
Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh (42)
National Institute of Technology Durgapur (46)
National Institute of Technology, Silchar, Assam (51)
Malviya National Institute of Technology (53)
Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, Surat (58)
National Institute of Technology Hamirpur, Himachal Pradesh (60)
Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, Bhopal, Madya Pradesh (62)
National Institute of Technology, Meghalaya (67)
National Institute of Technology Agartala (70)
National Institute of Technology Raipur (74)
National Institute of Technology Goa (87)
- R. Ambedkar National Institute of Technology Jalandar (113)
National Institute of Technology Jamshedpur (130)
National Institute of Technology Patna (132)
National Institute of Technology Manipur, Manipur (148)
Admission to their major programmes are done by centralized counseling system. Since 2015, the Joint Seat Allocation Authority (JoSAA) and Centralized Counselling for MTech/MArch and MPlan (CCMT) conduct the admission process for undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, respectively in all NITs.
