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The National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli (NIT-Trichy) is a deemed university in Tamil Nadu, India, founded in 1964 and granted deemed university status in 2003. It is recognized as an Institute of National Importance and offers a range of undergraduate and postgraduate programs, ranking first among NITs for nine consecutive years from 2016 to 2024. The institute has a rich history linked to India's push for advancements in science and technology, initiated by Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru.

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The National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli (NIT-Trichy) is a deemed university in Tamil Nadu, India, founded in 1964 and granted deemed university status in 2003. It is recognized as an Institute of National Importance and offers a range of undergraduate and postgraduate programs, ranking first among NITs for nine consecutive years from 2016 to 2024. The institute has a rich history linked to India's push for advancements in science and technology, initiated by Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru.

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The National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli (NIT-Tiruchirappalli or NIT-Trichy) is

a national research deemed university near the city of Tiruchirappalli in Tamil Nadu, India. It was
founded as Regional Engineering College Tiruchirappalli in 1964 by the governments
of India and Tamil Nadu under the affiliation of the University of Madras. The college was
granted deemed university status in 2003 with the approval of the University Grants
Commission (UGC), the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), and the Government of
India and renamed the National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli.[1]

NIT Trichy is recognized as an Institute of National Importance by the Government of India


under the National Institutes of Technology, Science Education and Research (NITSER) Act,
2007 and is one of the members of the National Institutes of Technology (NITs) system, a group
of centrally funded technical institutes governed by the Council of NITSER.[5] The institute is
funded by the Ministry of Education (MoE), Government of India; and focuses exclusively on
engineering, management, science, technology, and architecture.[4][3] The institute offers 10
bachelor's, 42 master's, and 17 doctoral programmes through its 17 academic departments and
awards more than 2000 degrees annually.[11][12]

The National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) ranked NIT Trichy first among the NITs for
nine consecutive years (2016 to 2024).[13] NIRF also ranked the institute 8 for architecture, 9 for
engineering, 51 for management, 31 for research, and 31 overall among the academic
institutions in India in 2024.[14][15][16][17][18] NIT Trichy was titled the "Best Industry-Linked NIT in
India" by the Confederation of Indian Industry in 2015, and "University of the Year" by
the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry in 2017.[19][20]

History

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See also: History of Regional Engineering Colleges

Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, who was the prime minister of India from 1947 to 1964,[21] wanted
India to become a world leader in science and technology. Under his administration, the central
government established fourteen regional engineering colleges (RECs) between 1959 and 1965
in various cities across India. The REC at Tiruchirappalli was established in 1964 under the
affiliation of the University of Madras, as a co-operative venture between the Government of
India and the Government of Tamil Nadu.

The founder of the college was Prof. P.S. Manisundaram, a pioneering educationist in India. He
was a graduate of Loyola College, Chennai and the Technical University of Nova Scotia (now part
of Dalhousie University), Canada. He served as the principal of REC Tiruchirappalli from its
formation in 1964 to 1982.[22][23][24]
In the early 1980s, the state government began to find the logistics of controlling these colleges
from Madras to be tedious and split the aegis into the Bharathidasan and Bharathiar universities
for the Tiruchirappalli and Coimbatore areas, respectively. In 1982, the college was thus
incorporated under the Bharathidasan University umbrella, of which Dr. P.S.
Manisundaram served as the inaugural vice-chancellor. The institute would grant degrees under
this name for the next 20 years, except for a brief stint under Anna University in 2001 and 2002.
The college continued its progress under Bharathidasan University.

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