National Institutes of Technology (NITs) in India are technical institutions owned by the Ministry of Education, which receive funding from the central government. They are governed by the National Institutes of Technology, Science Education and Research Act, 2007, which declared them to be Institutes of National Importance and prescribed their powers, duties and framework for governance. There are 31 NITs listed in the Act.

Each NIT is autonomous and linked to the others through a common council known as the NITSER Council, which oversees their administration.  All NITs, which are funded by the Government of India, were recognized by the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) in 2020, with twenty-four of them ranked among the top 200 engineering institutions.

The language of instruction in all these institutions is English. As of 2023, the total number of seats for undergraduate programs is 23,954.

List of NIT Colleges in India 2024:

In India, there are 31 NITs where the admission process for B.Tech program is conducted through JoSAA counseling process. This process takes into account the All India Rank (AIR) obtained in the JEE Main examination to determine the selection of candidates.  NIT offers admission to M.Tech programs on the basis of marks obtained in GATE exam, while seat allotment is managed through CCMT (Centralized Counseling for M.Tech/M.Tech/M.Plan/MDS).

Several prominent NITs in India are NIT Trichy, NIT Karnataka, NIT Rourkela, NIT Warangal, and NIT Calicut. NIT Trichy has been ranked 08 in India in the MHRD-NIRF ranking of 2023. Of the total, 21 NITs feature in the top 100 list. NIT Council acts as the governing body for all National Institutes of Technology. These institutes in India offer degree programs in engineering, architecture, management and science at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

Entrance Exams for Admission to NITs:

For admission into NIT, candidates have to qualify the entrance examination for various UG and PG level programmes. For B.Tech courses, candidates are admitted through JEE Main examination. National Testing Agency (NTA) has taken charge as the conducting authority for JEE Main since 2018. NIT colleges offer postgraduate programs with various specializations. The popular entrance examinations accepted for admission to various academic courses offered by NITs are given below: