NITs Education, Courses in NITs, BTech from NITs, Mtech from NITs, Engineering from NITs

National Institute Of Technology(NIT)s are now branded among the premier technical education institutes in India. Till their existence as the Regional Engineering Colleges (RECs) they were controlled by the respective State governments with lesser funds and at times regional politics too resulted in lack of proper direction.

After getting the NIT status from MHRD, the NITs have started churning out quality graduates who compete with the best and NITs do have some of the best students from all states in India.. The student community has started seeing NITs as a quality alternative. The reputation of NITs as centres of excellence has gained acceptance in industry. The various NITs now function autonomously, sharing only the entrance tests between them. All the National Institutes Of Technology(NIT)s are going to get more autonomous powers after passing the NIT Bill 2006. This will give them more autonomy in deciding their own curricula and will make it easier for them to adapt rapidly to the changes in educational standards.

All the course schedules are divided into semesters with evaluation on the basis of the credits system, with proportional weighting of subjects based on their importance. For each semester, the students are graded on a scale of 0 to 10 based on their performance throughout the semester. Each semester's evaluation is done independently and then the weighted average over all semesters is used to evaluate the cumulative grade point average (known as CGPA or GPA).

The NITs like the IITs are also planning to start a special academic program known as the Dual Degree. This will be an integrated graduation and postgraduation program which will complete in a total of 5 years rather than 6 years in the conventional BTech degree followed by an MTech. In order to encourage the students into research work as is done by M.Techs from IITs, this integrated program is planned to be introduced as a part of various new courses in NITs. Some NITs have already announced their plans to introduce Dual Degree courses from next academic year in the fields like Mathematics and Computing. Some NITs recently started offering Research Scholar Programmes to encourage Research oriented thinking in young minds. Recently IIT-Kanpur started an UG research scholar programme (10 weeks duration in Summer) for IIT-K students as well as all NIT students (sophomore and prefinal year students).It is part of a Quality Improvement programme(QIP) and IITs are really doing a good job to improve the quality of staff in NITs as part of QIP.