NITs offer degree courses at bachelors, masters, and doctorate levels in various branches of engineering, architecture, management and science. Admission to the under-graduate courses such as Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) and Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch) programs in NITs are through the highly competitive Joint Entrance Examination (Main). Admission to postgraduate courses are through the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering for Master of Technology (M.Tech.) and Master of Science (M.Sc.) programs, Common Admission Test for Master of Business Administration (MBA) program and NIMCET for Master of Computer Applications (MCA) program.

Some of the colleges of NIT are:

1. NIT Allahabad

2.NIT Bhopal

3.NIT Calicut

4.NIT Hamirpur

5. NIT Jaipur

6 NIT Jalandhar

7 NIT Jamshedpur

8 NIT Kurukshetra

9 NIT Nagpur

10 NIT Rourkela

11 NIT Silchar

12 NIT Karnataka

13 NIT Warangal

14 NIT Durgapur

15 NIT Srinagar

16 NIT Surat

17 NIT Trichy

18 NIT Patna

19 NIT Raipur

20 NIT Agartala

21 NIT Arunachal Pradesh

22 NIT Delhi

23 NIT Goa

24 NIT Manipur

25 NIT Meghalaya

26 NIT Mizoram

27 NIT Nagaland

28 NIT Puducherry

29 NIT Sikkim

30 NIT Uttarakhand