Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute Of Technology, Surat is one of the 17 Regional Engineering Colleges that were established as joint venture of the Government of India and the Government of Gujarat. It was established in June 1961 with facilities to run Bachelor's Degree Programmes in Civil, Electrical and Mechanical Engineering disciplines. It is now changed to NIT- SURAT along with other RECs.

The college has now been given the status of Deemed University

LOCATION

Surat is one of the main nodes on the Bombay- Delhi National Highway and is connected to the rest of the country by rail. SVNIT, Surat is located in the outskirts of Surat city in an area known as Ichchhanath, at a distance of about 10 kms from the Surat Railway Station. The Gujarat State Transportation Corporation's city buses regularly ply from early morning till midnight, between Surat Railway Station and College Campus. Any bus heading for Ichchanath or Piplod, can be taken to reach the NIT, Surat campus. Surat city as of now, is not connected by air. But, it is only at a distance of around 130 kms from Vadodara which is very well connected by air. While, Surat is at a distance of about 260 kms North of Mumbai.

CAMPUS

The college has a campus of its own, spread over 100 hectares of land on the Surat-Dumas Highway. The college is having in all seven hostels, six for boys & one for girls students, accommodating 990 students. The total of 191 units of staff quarters for different categories have been built on the campus. The college has a Canteen, a Students Store, a Dispensary, a Guest House, a Post Office, a branch of the State Bank of India and play ground for some of the major games, viz. Football, Basketball, Volleyball and Cricket. The college has well-established Central Learning resource centers like Central library, Central Computer Centre, Entrepreneurship Development Cell, Continuing Education Centre and Physical Education Section. The college also has a very active Training & Placement section

ADMISSIONS

Admission is based on the ranklist os AIEEE conducted by CBSE.The sanctioned intake of students is, currently 426. Fifty per cent of the seats are filled up from the Gujarat State and the fifty percent of the seats are reserved for the students from other States with quota fixed for every State. In addition to intake of 426, twenty foreign students are also admitted under the scheme of Central Government. Also at 2nd year level 32 students are admitted, who have passed Diploma on merit basis.

PROGRAMS OFFERED AT NIT-SURAT

The college offers both graduate and postgraduate programs in Engineering disciplines. The graduate programs are offered in the following areas:

The college has three Post Graduate Centers, one each in Civil Engineering, Applied Mechanics and Mechanical Engineering Departments.

OTHER FACILITIES AT NIT-SURAT

Library- The Central Library, SVNIT Surat is one amongst major technological libraries in the area of science, engineering and technology.The Library was established in 1968. It has completed nearly 35 years and has built a large collection of books, journals and non-book materials. It also has a rich collection of resources in electronic media available locally on the Institute Intranet and accessible on the Web. It caters to the needs of large groups of users including more than 2000 students, 200 faculty, 150 research scholars and equally large number of supporting staff. It has computerized all its house-keeping activities using a global software that is being maintained and updated regularly. It also facilitates industries, individual consultants and corporates to access online database and journals. It uses state-of-the-art technology in its functioning and services.

Training and Placement Activities -The placement activities take place in three phases: zeroth, first and second. The zeroth phase, which wasis immediately after the sixth semester exams of the pre-final year students. The first phase (during the seventh semester) and the second phase (during the last semester) also is very successful. This time the students of M.E./M.Tech. too were part of the placement activities

Computer Facilities On Campus Internet and Intranet facilities

Sports / Indoor Games and gym facilities All sports facilities including Gym. are available. Indoor Games facilities are also available.

Bus / Transport facility Available