The National Institute of Technology Goa (NIT Goa) is a head of technical Institute of the region. The National Institute of Technology Goa is also known as NIT Goa or NITG, is an engineering institution in the Indian state of Goa. It was installed in 2010 by the Parliament Act, 2007(NIT Act, 2007). It is one of the 31th National Institutes of Technology in India and is recognized as an Institute of National Importance by the Government of India. They started their first batch of students in 2010-11. It is one of 10th newly set up in NITs country during the 11th Five Year Plan by the Ministry of Human Resources Development. National Institute of Technology, Goa is under the guidelines of National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal.  This Campus is well connected by the Rail ways, Road ways as well as air ways from the various parts of country.

The eye sight of this institute is to merge with one of the nations’ prestigious institutions. Through the research, technical, creativity and innovative articles for growth of the society. National Institute of Technology, Goa sets up the students’ mind by that they can be come out from the problem very easily, make them thinking practically, thinks on fact with youngest minds in intellectual and full power for developing their capacity in the area of science, engineering, and technology into the high standard of intelligence with the help of exceptional knowledge, make them understood about the human values, man power and encourage the skilled student, their students make effort for making themselves potential and providing the perfect direction to move out in professional and providing the sprit to make socialistic proper technologists and engineers.  They are trying to serve the Goan society, India and humanity with all the challenges and opportunities, and attempt to focus on excellence, through dissemination, generation and application of knowledge in all the branches of Science, Engineering, Technology, Humanities and Management with the help of human values and ethics.

NIT Goa offers Five Engineering course in Under Graduate, the institute offers Post Graduate courses and Ph. D degree in three Engineering Departments:

(1) computer Science and Engineering

(2) Electronics and Communitarian Engineering and

(3) Electrical and Electronics Engineering. And also provides Ph. D degree in Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Economics and English specialization.

The campus admits students on the basis of ranks obtained in JEE Main, GATE, JAM etc. For the foreign students, student will have to appear the scheme of Direct Admission to Students Abroad (DASA), which consist 30 students in every branch.