National Institute of Technology Trichy

The National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli is a national research deemed university near the city of Tiruchirappalli in Tamil Nadu, India. It was founded as Regional Engineering College Tiruchirappalli in 1964 by the governments of India and Tamil Nadu under the affiliation of the University of Madras. The college was granted deemed university status in 2003 with the approval of the University Grants Commission, the All India Council for Technical Education, and the Government of India and renamed the National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli.

NIT Trichy is recognized as an Institute of National Importance by the Government of India under the National Institutes of Technology, Science Education and Research Act, 2007 and is one of the members of the National Institutes of Technology system, a group of centrally funded technical institutes governed by the Council of NITSER.

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