List of NIT Colleges in India 2026 - NIRF Ranking, Courses, Seats, Cutoff, Fees and Placement

List of all NITs in India 2026 is available here. NIT Tiruchirappalli has secured 9th position in the NIRF Engineering Ranking 2025, 2nd year in a row. National Institutes of Technology (NITs) are premier engineering colleges in India offering admission to degree courses at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. Check here the list of top NITs with their MHRD-NIRF rankings, courses offered, total seat intake and cut offs.

List of NITs in India 2026: National Institutes of Technology (NIT) are autonomous engineering institutes that offer various undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral degree programs in Engineering and other fields. There are a total of 31 NITs in India and admission to BTech Programs is managed through the JoSAA counselling process, based on AIR rank secured in JEE Main. NIT Tiruchirappalli is the best NIT in India, with 9th position in NIRF Engineering Ranking 2025.

NIT Trichy, NIT Karnataka, NIT Rourkela, NIT Warangal, and NIT Calicut are some of the popular NITs across India. Out of the total NITs, 18 are among the top 100 list in the NIRF Engineering Ranking 2025. The NIT Council is the regulatory body for all NITs. Most of the NITs in India offer degree courses at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels in various branches of Engineering, Architecture, Management and Science. NIT offers admission to MTech programmes based on the score obtained in the GATE exam while seat allotment is managed through CCMT (Centralized Counseling for MTech/MArch/MPlan/MDes).

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In this article, you will learn about:

• List of NITs along with their MHRD ranking, BTech seat capacity and number of BTech programmes offered
• Types of degree/courses offered at NITs at the UG and PG level
• Most popular NIT courses in India
• Entrance exams for admission to NITs
• Cut-off for BTech programmes at Top NITs

List of NITs in India with NIRF Ranking 2025

The Ministry of Education has released NIRF Ranking 2025 and 18 NITs are in the top 100. Check here NIRF Engineering Ranking for top NITs in India. Among all the 31 NITs in India, NIT Patna, established in 1886, is the oldest while NIT Goa, NIT Manipur, NIT Meghalaya, NIT Mizoram, NIT Nagaland, NIT Puducherry, NIT Sikkim, NIT Uttarakhand, NIT Andhra Pradesh are recently formed institutions. NIT Calicut had the highest seat intake for BTech programmes with 909 seats while NIT Goa, Manipur, and Mizoram contain the lowest number of seats at 150.

List of NITs with Seat Numbers

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Types of Degree Programmes Offered in NITs

NITs are the most prominent engineering colleges in India after the IITs. They offer various undergraduate and postgraduate programmes and admission to most of the programmes is entrance based. The most popular undergraduate programmes offered by NITs are BTech and B.Arch while MBA and MTech are the popular postgraduate programmes.

NITs across India offer traditional engineering programmes such as BTech and MTech. Besides, NITs also offer 5-year dual degree programmes in various fields. There are three NITs in India, NIT Trichy, NIT Allahabad and NIT Rourkela that also offer MBA or BBA. Few NITs also provide 5=year BArch and 4-year BSc degrees. Here is a list of popular BTech programmes offered at NITs:

• Civil Engineering
• Chemical Engineering
• Computer Science & Engineering
• Electrical & Electronics Engineering
• Electronics & Communication Engineering
• Mechanical Engineering
• Metallurgical Engineering
• Production Engineering

For admission in NITs, candidates have to qualify the entrance tests for various UG and PG level programmes. For BTech courses, candidates are admitted through JEE Main exam. National Testing Agency (NTA) has taken over as conducting authority for JEE Main since 2018. The NIT colleges offer postgraduate programmes with different specialisations. The popular entrance exams accepted for admission to various academic courses offered by NITs are tabulated below:

JoSAA releases releasing category-wise and round-wise opening and closing cutoffs/ranks for admission to B.Tech, M.Tech and dual degree programmes in NITs. Candidates have to register and participate in the JoSAA counselling cum seat allotment process. JoSAA conducts joint counselling sessions for candidates qualifying JEE Main and JEE Advanced exam.

JEE Main Cut off depends on several factors including the number of candidates appearing in the entrance exam, total candidates applied for admission in NITs, total seat intake and difficulty level of the examination. Take a look at JEE Main cut offs for top NITs below.

There are no eligibility criteria in JEE Main for assigning All India Ranks. However, candidates seeking admission to NITs must secure at least 75 per cent or be in the top 20 percentile in the 10 2 board examination or any equivalent examination conducted by any recognized board. The minimum percentage in the qualifying exam is relaxed to 65 per cent for candidates from SC/ST category.

• NIT Trichy - Ranked 10 (score - 61.62)
• NIT Rourkela - Ranked 16 (score - 57.75)
• NIT Surathkal - Ranked 21 (score - 55.25)
• NIT Warangal - Ranked 26 (score - 53.21)
• NIT Calicut - Ranked 28 (score - 52.69)

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However, while choosing colleges for JoSAA, be aware that the higher the ranking of an institute, the higher will be the cut off marks. Sometimes, the college-branch combination plays a more significant role in higher ROI from engineering education than simply the brand value of an institution.

However, as per the eligibility criteria specified by NTA, a candidate must secure a minimum 75 per cent aggregate score in the class 12 board examination or be among the top 20 percentile in 10 2 or any equivalent examination for admission to BE/BTech/BArch/BPlanning courses at NITs and other institutes of national importance such as IITs/IIITs and CFTIs.

Candidates from SC/ST categories require a minimum of 65 per cent in class 12 board or any other equivalent examination by a recognized board, as per the relaxation norms for reserved category candidates.

However, the NIT fee structure includes other components such as Admission, Library, Development Fee, Students Group, Matriculation & Recognition, etc. All these components usually vary from institute to institute. Candidates from SC/ST categories and those coming from economically weaker sections of society can avail of fee waiver/remission, subject to fulfilling all the eligibility requirements, as per Government of India norms.