NIT Meghalaya Campus tour

National Institute of Technology (NIT) Meghalaya is one among the thirty-one NITs in India established under the NIT Act 2007
(Amended 2012) of the Parliament of India as Institutes of National Importance with full funding support from the Ministry of
Human Resource Development, Government of India. NIT Meghalaya was established in 2010 and started functioning from its
temporary campus in Shillong in 2012. Its permanent campus is currently under development at Cherrapunjee. Presently the
institute has nine (9) Departments and eight (8) Centres with a combined strength of 68 regular faculty members and 07
Trainee Teachers. All the departmental laboratories are well equipped with advance equipment/ instruments and experimental
set-up.
The institute has been ranked among the top 100 engineering institutes in India by NIRF ranking for the last four years. The
institute also bagged 28th rank among top 25 engineering institutes of the country under India Today Ranking.
NIT Meghalaya is committed to basic long-term research in frontier areas. The goals are in the pursuit and advancement of
scientific and technological research. The institute aspires to be a leading centre with research focus on achieving better
scientific and technological mechanisms, discovering, and exploring new technologies, and improving technological standards
through its core programmes.
NIT Meghalaya has made concerted efforts to align its R&D focus with the national goal of achieving technological self-reliance.
Since its inception, NIT Meghalaya has been striving to be a prime hub for research and consultancy in advanced and industryrelevant areas. It has, therefore, forged collaborations with National Laboratories and Research Institutes to enable NIT
Meghalaya faculty to meaningfully situate their theoretical knowledge in actual research work. The institute has ongoing
academic and research collaborations with many national and international universities, governments, and industries in order
to keep pace with expanding frontiers of knowledge and global developments. Its pre-eminent position at the cutting-edge of
research is reflected in its impressive list of research projects, consultancy projects and research publications. Our collaboration
with the industries has yielded the invaluable opportunity for faculty to engage in research projects with industrial relevance