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Brief overview on NITs- 17-Feb-2014
National Institutes of Technology (NITs) are a group of premier public ( government ) engineering institutes of India offering wide variety of programmes from technical, science, humanities, management and many more .
However not all NITs provide the same courses.
Way back during their inception few decades ago, NITs were referred as Regional Engineering Colleges (RECs) and were governed by their respective state governments.
NITs offer degree courses at bachelors, masters, and doctorate levels in various branches of engineering and technology. All NITs are autonomous which enables them to set up their own curriculum.
Admission to NITs was done by the erstwhile All India Engineering Entrance Examination, now replaced by Joint Entrance Examination Main (JEE Main) conducted across India.
Courses are divided into semesters with evaluation on the basis of credits, which allows for proportional weighting based on the course's importance. For each semester, grades range from 0 to 10. Semester evaluations are carried out independently. From the weighted average of the semesters cumulative grade point average (CGPA) is computed.
NITs also provide dual degree programs, integrated postgraduate studies that complete in 5 years rather than the 6 year conventional track of a Bachelor's followed by a Master's degree.
Stringent faculty recruitment and industry collaboration also contribute to NIT success.
NITs provide on-campus housing to students, research scholars, and faculty members. Students live in hostels, also known as halls,
throughout their college life. Most have single accommodation but many live in double or triple rooms during their initial years. Every hostel has a recreation room equipped with cable television, magazines, newspapers, and indoor games and in-room Internet connectivity.
NITs have state of art central library with technical books, literature, fiction, scientific journals, and other electronic material. Most have digitized their libraries. Some provide an intranet library facility.
Here are the list NITs found in India
National Institute of Technology, Agartala
Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad
Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, Bhopal
National Institute of Technology, Calicut
National Institute of Technology, Durgapur
National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur
Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar
National Institute of Technology, Jamshedpur
National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra
Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur
National Institute of Technology, Patna
National Institute of Technology, Raipur
National Institute of Technology, Rourkela
National Institute of Technology, Silchar
National Institute of Technology, Srinagar
Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, Surat.
National Institute of Technology, Surathkal
National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirapalli
National Institute of Technology, Warangal
(New NITs)
National Institute of Technology, Sikkim
National Institute of Technology, Goa
National Institute of Technology, Arunachal Pradesh
National Institute of Technology, Meghalaya
National Institute of Technology, Nagaland
National Institute of Technology, Manipur
National Institute of Technology, Mizoram
National Institute of Technology, Uttarakhand
National Institute of Technology, Delhi
National Institute of Technology, Puducherry
