Formerly known as Calicut Regional Engineering, the College was started in September 1961. It is the ninth of its kind and the first one to be established during the Third Five Year Plan period. The college is a joint and co-operative enterprise of the Government of India and the Government of Kerala and is visualised as a national institution imparting quality technical education and fostering national integration. It is administered by a society registered under Societies Registration Act XXI of 1860. Under the constitution of the Society, the college is governed by a Board of Governors which consists of the representatives of the Govt. of India, Govt. of Kerala, UGC, AICTE, University of Calicut, Faculty of IIT/IISc and Industrialists/Technologists in the region. The Chairman of the Board is the Minister of Education, Government of Kerala and the Secretary is the Principal. The college is affiliated to the University of Calicut.

The college imparts under-graduate technical education of four years duration leading to B.Tech degree and post-graduate education of one and half years duration leading to M.Tech degree, both in semester pattern. In addition a three year (6 semester) Master of Computer Applications (MCA) programme is also offered. The college is a recognized QIP Centre for post-graduate programmes and is an approved research centre of the University of Calicut. The college offers Ph.D programmes in all the departments. The college is situated 22km east of Calicut city on a 120 hectre area.

B.Tech branches

Besides Undergraduate programs the institute also offers M.Tech. in Civil, Mechanical, Electrical and Electronics engineering and Masters of Computer Applications

Facilities
The college is situated 22km east of Calicut city on a 120 hectre area.

Library
Institute boasts of a well equipped library with approximately 1lakh books and bound periodicals. It also regularly subscribes 160 indian and foreign journals besides 1877 online journals. Nalanda, the Digital Library initiated in 1999 at NIT is one of the largest digital libraries in the country. NALANDA serves members of the campus in meeting their academic & research needs by providing timely & up-to-date information with value added services in all the areas of Science/Engineering/Technology. Apart from the Digital Library Reading Room, members can access the NALANDA from the entire campus.

BioMechanics centre
The Centre for Biomechanics, conceived as a Centre of Excellence, was inaugurated on September 10, 1998. This is a unique Centre where R & D work of an interdisciplinary nature is carried out, with Adjunct Faculty from other institutions (Medical College, Calicut and Indian Institute of Technology, Madras).

Other centers of excellence are NITC IBM ACE centre and Sophisticated Instruments centre.

Famous Alumni

Manoj Agrawal, is the Vice President, Services Induslogic. He is also one of the co-founders of the company

Tarun Amla, is the Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Isola Global, Isola Group leads the market in the design and production of innovative base materials used as the foundation for printed circuit boards.

Contact Address
National Institute of Technology Calicut,
NIT Campus P.O., Calicut - 673 601.
Ph.No. 0495 2286101, Fax No. 0495 2287250