Dr. B. R. Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar

Dr B. R. Ambedkar National Institute of Technology was established in the year 1987 as Regional Engineering College and was given the status of National Institute of Technology (Deemed University) by the Government of India on October 17, 2002, under the aegis of the Ministry of Human Resource Development, New Delhi. Now the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India, has declared the Institute as “Institute of National Importance” under the Act of Parliament 2007.

A large number of reputed Industrial houses in the country visit the Institution and select the final year students as Engineers/ Management Trainees. As one of the National Institutes of Technology (NIT), the Institute has the responsibility of providing high-quality education in Engineering, Technology, and Sciences to produce competent technical and scientific manpower for the country. The Institute offers B.Tech, M.Tech, MSc, MBA, and PhD Programmes in several disciplines of engineering, technology, and Sciences.

The Institute campus is spread over an area of 154 acres. It has many topographical features, various buildings of different natures, with clean and wide roads surrounded by a green belt. The campus area has been broadly divided into different functional zones: (i) institution zone for teaching departments/centers/administration, (ii) residential zone for the faculty and staff, (iii) students’ hostel zone. Other amenities on the campus include a guest house, a community Centre, a dispensary, a shopping Centre, banks, a post office, a sports complex, playgrounds, new Tennis courts, Basketball courts, Volleyball courts, an open-air theatre, a central seminar hall, and a night canteen, etc.