National Institute of Technology Manipur, a centrally funded institution is set up to impart quality technical education to various levels of higher learning. It is one of the ten newly set up NITs by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Govt. of India vide its order no. F.23-13-2009-TS-III dated 30th October 2009 and 3rd March 2010. It has been established to cater to the needs of the thousands of students from the North East and outside in the field of Technical Education with National Institute of Technology Agartala, as its mentor institute and tremendous support from the State Govt. of Manipur, NIT Manipur started its first session on 1st August, 2010.
The Institute was first established under the Manipur Societies Registration Act, 1989. (Regd. No. 425/M/SR/2010). Later, NIT Manipur was declared as a full-fledged NIT along with nine other new NITs, through An Act of Parliament and notified under Govt. of India Gazette notification No. 28 0f 2012 dated 7th June 2012 and declared as an Institute of National Importance.
NIRF Rank of Institute for year 2023 is 95 in Engineering Category. Institute has MOU with IIT Madras, under which top 10% B Tech 6th semester students can study 7 & 8 semester at IIT Madras. After successfully completing B Tech they can take direct admission in PhD at IIT Madras.
The Institute has a training and placement cell under Training and Placement Officer with supporting staff for organizing on- campus recruitment process, Industrial training of the students, study tour etc. Industrial training after the end of 6th Semester examination is compulsory for all undergraduate students of all disciplines. The training and placement cell arranges campus interview for pre-final and final-year students. Students have been placed in Larsen & Toubro, Hewlett & Packard, Infosys, Philips, Tech Mahindra, Magnetti Marelli, IBM, Nokia Networks, Nomura Research Institute Financial Technologies India Pvt. Ltd., WIPRO,BPCL, TCS, MU-SIGMA, KEC International, Carbon Software Solution & AAA, HCL TSS, Huwaei, MPHASIS and Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd. Students are encouraged to participate in seminars, workshops and other academic competitions sponsored by Indian Society for Technical Education, Institution of Engineers (India), Imphal, Institute of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE), Imphal, Local Centre and other institutions by the Training and Placement Cell.
The students actively participate in all co-curricular activities like Cultural cum Technical fest (OUGRI), games and sports, debate, essay competition, drama competition, NCC, NSS programmes etc. sponsored by the State Government, Central Government and other statutory bodies and the institute authority.
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