NIT Delhi – National institute of Technology Overview

Founded in the year 2010, NIT Delhi is one of the 31 National Institutes of Technology set up by the Ministry of Human Resource Development or MHRD.

Located in Delhi, India the college has been proclaimed as an Institute of National Importance by the Parliament of India and is presently mentored by the National Institute of Technology in Warangal.

The institute provides UG, PG and Doctoral programmes in Engineering consisting of B.E./B.Tech, M.E./M.Tech and PhD courses only.

The three main departments of the college are Computer Science and Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering and Electronics and Communication Engineering. NIT Delhi offers a total of three Undergraduate and three Postgraduate courses. 

The NIT Delhi ranking hasn’t reached the top NITs list yet due to its young age but the institute was ranked 100 once by Edu Rand in 2015. 

The faculty in NIT New Delhi is considered to be well qualified; some having internationally published papers to their name. Almost all of the professors are IIT passed and carry good teaching experience. They are friendly, approachable and always ready to offer assistance.

NIT Delhi Courses offered and Fee Structure

The courses offered at the National Institute of Technology in Delhi belong to the field of Engineering only, providing degrees in academic branches like B.Tech, M.Tech and PhD studies.

Following is a brief discussion of the structure of the NIT Delhi courses and their corresponding NIT Delhi eligibility requisites. To know the detail of NIT Delhi fee structure, candidates can check the official website.

NIT Delhi Course Highlights

• Delhi NIT offers a full-time B.Tech programme spread over a period of four years. Eligible candidates include students who have secured a percentage of 75 or more in Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics in their senior secondary board examinations. NIT Delhi fees for the B.Tech degree is 2.79 lakhs.
• The university provides a two-year M.Tech programme along with a fee of 1.95 lakhs. The NIT Delhi eligibility criteria for M.Tech courses requires the willing candidates to pass their B.Tech or M.Sc degrees with a minimum score of 60%.
• NIT Delhi also conducts a 3 years full-time PhD programme for a fee of 51,100. A candidate passing the M.E., M.Tech. or M.D. degrees needs to obtain at least 60% marks or a 6.75 CGPA out of 10 to be eligible for NIT Delhi PhD courses.

NIT Delhi Admission Process

The NIT Delhi admission procedure for the different courses are mentioned below –

• BE / B.Tech - Admission is based on the NIT Delhi cut off scores of JEE Mains depending on the desired stream. JEE Mains cut-offs stated by the institution itself followed by various rounds of counselling depending on the desired course or stream. 
• ME / M.Tech - Aspiring candidates need to qualify in GATE with a minimum score of 300 for general category and 200 for SC, ST or PD categories.
• PhD - The NIT Delhi PhD admission 2018 procedure required the candidates to pass their GATE (Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering) exams followed by a Written Test and Personal Interview. NIT Delhi PhD admission allows a 5% moderation of minimum qualifying marks for SC, ST, OBC and PWD candidates.

NIT Delhi Placements

The NIT Delhi placement record has been quite promising over the past few years and guaranteed almost 95% of its students with their desired jobs in 2018. The NIT Delhi highest package of 2018 fell under the NIT Delhi CSE placements, which was a hefty sum of 29.6 lakhs offered by DIRECTI.

Companies that hire from the institute belong mainly to the fields of Finance, marketing, sales and IT. The NIT Delhi ECE placements too offered great packages allowing students to bag an average package of over 6 lakhs.

NIT Delhi Placements report:

The companies and recruiters visiting the campus of NIT Delhi include Aakash Institute, AKS IT Services Pvt. Ltd., Amazon.com, Balmer Lawrie, BILT, DRDO, ETA Ascon, ETA Engineering, Housing.Com, IBM, Info Edge (India) Ltd., Infosys, L T, MAQ software, Maz Digital, Mitsubishi, Mu Sigma, NSE, Nvizion, Polestar Solutions, Ramco Systems, Samsung, Sapient etc.

NIT Delhi Result and Cut-off

NIT Delhi MTech cutoff marks are based on an individual’s GATE scores. A detailed analysis of the NIT Delhi cutoff scores has been discussed following:

Mentioned below is the NIT Delhi cut off for JEE Mains 2018, of the B.E./B.Tech programme

(Round 1): 

HS - Home State  

OS - Other States

The NIT Delhi cut off 2018 for the GATE exam of the M.E/M.Tech programme is as follows:

NIT Delhi Alumni Network

NIT Delhi lags behind in terms of having a strong alumni network in comparison to other NITs, as it is a pretty young institute founded quite recently, in the year 2010.

Till now it has witnessed only six batches pass out of its academic reign and is always trying to improve its scholastic standards every year.

NIT Delhi Scholarships

The scholarships offered at The National Institute of Technology in Delhi include:

1. National Scholarship For Higher Education For ST Students: The student is eligible for this scholarship if his or her total family income is less than INR 4.50 lakh per annum.
2. “National Fellowship and Scholarship for Higher Education of ST Students”: The candidate needs to pass the post-Graduation examination to be eligible for this fellowship. The annual family income should be less than INR 4.5 lakhs. The scholarship is subject to a satisfactory performance from the student.
3. National e-Scholarship Portal (NeSP).

NIT Delhi Campus Facility

So how is NIT Delhi? Well, it won’t be fair if we jump right into a conclusion as the institute is presently in its early stages of development and is growing at a steady rate each year.

The NIT Delhi campus area is spread over 51 acres of land. The NIT Delhi campus facilities are ample but the ‘NIT Delhi hostel distance from college’ problem still remains to be a worrying factor. NIT Delhi nearest metro station is the Jahangir Puri metro station on Yellow line of DMRC.

The official NIT Delhi address is Sector A-7, Institutional Area, near Satyawadi Raja Harish Chandra Hospital, Narela, Delhi. 

Following are a few of the many facilities available at the old as well as the NIT Delhi new campus.

• Library: The library at NIT Delhi keeps a rich collection of 14026 printed books including textbooks and reference books with around 2500 titles, more than 6000 e-journals and 4450 books in its book bank. The library adopts the software of Web-based Libsys 7 to automate most of the activities and services in the library. 
• Hostel: Hostels for boys are located within the main NIT Delhi campus in Narela, while the hostels for girls are at Rohini in Delhi. The NIT Delhi hostel boarding facility has been increased to around 150 students and provision of adequate transport facilities has also been introduced to enable steady commutation among students staying at the YWCA Girls Hostel, Rohini and even day scholars. 
• Sports Complex: The NIT Delhi campus area also consists of a Badminton Court, Basketball Court, Football Ground, Volleyball Court, Kabaddi Court, Table Tennis room as well as a Cricket Cemented pitch with Nets.
• Location: The NIT Delhi address is Sector A-7, Institutional Area, near Satyawadi Raja Harish Chandra Hospital, Narela, Delhi.