Type Public Director Dr. Rajeev Tripathi Undergraduates 2,362 Phone 0532 254 5407 | Established 1961 Academic staff 257 Campus size 90 ha Founded 1961 | |
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Mnnit allahabad motilal nehru national institute of technology allahabad
Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad (MNNIT or NIT Allahabad), formerly Motilal Nehru Regional Engineering College (MNREC), is a public higher education institute located in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India. It is one of the National Institutes of Technology, and like the rest of them, classified as an Institute of National Importance.The college has the distinction of being first in the country to start an undergraduate programme in Computer Science & Engineering in 1976-77. According to the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF), the institute is ranked 23 in the 2016 engineering university rankings.
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History
Motilal Nehru Regional Engineering College was established in 1961. The foundation stone was laid by Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India, and the institute was named after his father, lawyer and freedom fighter, Motilal Nehru. The founding principal of the college was Mr. Gopal Kishore Agrawal.
The main building of the college was inaugurated by Prime minister Lal Bahadur Shastri on 18 April 1965. Effective from 26 June 2002, the college became a Deemed University and renamed as Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology.
From its beginnings the institute offered bachelor's degree Programmes in Civil, Electrical and Mechanical Engineering. The institute was the first in the country to offer an undergraduate program in Computer Science and Engineering which was started in 1976. In 1982-83 undergraduate programs in Electronics Engineering, and Production and Industrial Engineering were started.
Post Graduate programs were introduced in 1970-71 with master's degree courses in all engineering departments. The institute now offers M.Tech. degree programs MCA & M.Sc Mathematics and Scientific Computing course, and registers candidates for Ph. D. degree.The institute has been recognized by the Government of India as a center for the quality improvement program in Civil and Mechanical Engineering. The institute has started a two year/four semesters postgraduate Degree in Management Studies from 1996. The institute has added undergraduate programs in Chemical Engineering and BioTechnology in 2006.
The college has been recognized by AICTE as a center for the Quality Improvement Programme. In 1972, the college established an industrial estate with 69 sheds with the objective of encouraging entrepreneurs and creating additional revenue.
The college is a member of Indo-UK REC project in the area of design. Under this scheme, a Design Center has been established at a cost of about Rs. six Crore, which offers training and consultancy. It was given the status of Institute of National Importance (INI) on 15 August 2007.
In 2010, the institute celebrated its Golden Jubilee year of its establishment.
It is among the few technical institutions in India to house two supercomputers, PARAM 8000 and PARAM 10000.
Rankings
MNNIT has been ranked as the 3rd best Engineering College of India in the Edu-Rand Rankings of 2015. The survey was done jointly by Edu, an Indian company, and Rand Corporation, a non-profit American tinktank. According to the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF), the institute is ranked 23 in the 2016 engineering university rankings.
Undergraduate
MNNIT offers a 4-year undergraduate course in various engineering disciplines and students are admitted through
Indian Students: Admission is through JEE (Main).(http://jeemain.nic.in)
Foreign Students: Admission is through DASA (https://www.dasanit.org/)
Postgraduate
MNNIT offers 19 post-graduate programs of two-year duration leading to M.Tech. degrees.The Computer Science department offers a Masters in Computer Applications (MCA. It has a Masters course in Computational Mathematics namely M.Sc in Mathematics and Scientific Computing and a B-school known as the School of Management Studies. Master of social work(MSW) is also running in the institute from 2009.
Departments
The departments in the institute are: