The National Institute of Technology, Durgapur is a public higher education engineering portal which is located at Durgapur, West Bengal, India. It is formerly known as the Regional Engineering College, Durgapur (REC Durgapur). It was established in 1960 by the Chief Minister of West Bengal, Bidhan Chandra Roy. NIT Durgapur is the first 8th Regional Engineering Colleges established in India as a co-operative venture between the Government of India and the Government of West Bengal. Currently, it is one of 32nd National Institutes of Technology in India and has been accepted as an Institute of National Importance by the Government of India under the National Institutes of Technology Act, 2007. In 200, the Union Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India updated it in all the 17 Regional Engineering Colleges (RECs) to National Institute of Technology (NITs). In July 2003, the campus was granted DEEMED University status with the approval of the UGC/AICTE and it was renamed to the National Institute of Technology Durgapur. The size of this campus is 187 acres land which is fully residential and co-educational.
NIT Durgapur, being an old generation NIT, aims to create cost-effective technical leaders, global managers, and entrepreneurs with strong conceptual foundations and analytical approach to help them be the best in whichever field they choose. The aim to move the needs of modern technique, can have connective to the globally and connecting the student to the WORLD and are respected internationally, to imparting the quality of technical and scientific education and mainly focus on research and innovation to produce best engineers, technologists, scientists and citizen who can contribute meaningfully to the growth and development of the country and shine in various disciplines of knowledge. NIT Durgapur is upgrading its goodwill year by year and increasing its portfolio, fulfills all activities which are the basic requirement of the student.
This institute’s environment has covered by the expert from the field the technical system. The learning process here to helps the student connect to the industry and other stakeholders in a multidimensional way. And make the student realizes the reality of real-life and makes them come out of the problems and run to achieve the big in life.
This institute offers different types of courses in UG (B.Tech, Civil Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering, Information Technology, Electrical Engineering), PG (M.Tech, Geotechnical Engineering, Structural Engineering, Information Technology, Corrosion Science and Technology {M.Sc in Chemistry, Mathematics, and Physics), and Ph.D. and Certificate courses. The Exams are taken based on State Rank/ All India Rank of AIEEE conducted by the Central Board of Secondary Education- JEE Main, GATE, CAT, NIMCET, etc... Some few seats are reserved for Foreign students who are nominated by the Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India, and the India Council for Cultural Relations, Government of India.