About Malaviya National Institute of Technology (MNIT)

Malaviya National Institute of Technology (MNIT), Jaipur is one of the twenty National Institutes of Technology established by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India. It was formerly known as Malaviya Regional Engineering College and was established in 1963 as a joint venture of the Government of India and the Government of Rajasthan. The College was named Malaviya Regional Engineering College as a tribute to the vision and ideals of the renowned national leader and educationist, Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya. The College functioned from its temporary campus in Pilani until 1965 when it was shifted to its present campus in Jaipur. The founder Principal of this institution was Prof. V.G. Garde in whose dynamic supervision the College paved the way to be the foremost engineering institutes in the country. The Institute was assigned the status of National Institute of Technology and Deemed University on June 26, 2002. The Institute has now acquired the status of an autonomous Institute fully funded by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, New Delhi. The Institute has been selected as a centre for the Technical Education Quality Improvement Program sponsored by the World Bank in collaboration with the Government of India. The semester scheme is followed for both undergraduate and postgraduate courses. The campus is spread over an area of over 312 acres. All the states and union territories of the country are represented in the undergraduate intake of the Institute(50% from rajasthan & the other 50% from all states & union territories of India). Courses specific to management, communication techniques and computer-aided design and programming have been introduced to keep pace with changing times. Curriculum workshops are being organized for upgrading UG and PG schemes. The Institute also offers P.G. specializations in Transportation Engineering, Water Resources Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Power Systems, Electronics and Communication Engineering, VSLI Design, Energy Engineering, Manufacturing Systems Engineering, Industrial Metallurgy, Structural Engineering, M.Sc. in Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics, M. Planning (Urban Planning) and Master of Business Administration, Doctoral programs are also offered in all these areas including Humanities and Social Sciences.

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