•    This institute also provides the scholarship to the student and financial aids opportunity.  Scholarship is given on the basis of ‘merit’ and ‘merit-cum-means’. For merit Scholarship, amount will be Rs. 10,000 per year. Merit-cum-means scholarship, amount is up to Rs. 2,000 per month (family annual income from all source is below 4.5 lakhs). Ph.D. candidates are also encouraged to participate in scholarship.
•     NITK was ranked 16th among engineering colleges in India by India Today in 2017, 6th by Outlook India and 14th by The Week. It was ranked 21 among engineering colleges by the National Institutional Ranking Framework in 2018 and 57 overall.
•    This institute has 100% achievement in Placement service with the best Average Salary Package. The highest package offered was in between 27LPA to 30 LPA, the lowest package offered was in between 5 LPA to 7 LPA, and where the average salary stood at 7.50 LPA. Around 85%-90% of the students got the internships from the college. Different type of programme student gets different type of salary package. 
•    The thing important is here that NIT Surathkal provides hostel facilities also with the high quality of food; double occupy hygiene room and amenities for their own facilities like TV, Refrigerator, Washing machine, Wi-Fi etc. And also includes a library, state of the art classrooms, computing facilities, sports etc.
•    Every year 250+ MNCs visited here and placed the student Amazon-Axis Bank, Bajaj, CITI Bank, Caterpillar, Dell Deloitte, Deutche Bank, Fidelity, GE, Goldman Sachs, HSBC, Hexagon, Honeywell, JSW, John Deere, KPIT, L&T, L&T ECC etc.