Wednesday, January 4, 2017

IIT vs. NIT- The Unremitting Debate

This perdurable dialectic is beyond the match. Every academic crackerjack has to go through this one or the other question for several times. Being the best free online education portal we are not also obviated from this projectile. To start with let’s zoom in the full form of these two abbreviations-
IIT(Indian Institute of Technology)-The biggest technical university which has 23 branches across the country. These branches are governed by the Institute of Technology Act 1961. The union HRD Minister is the ex-officio chairman of IIT council.

NIT(National Institute of Technology)- With 31 branches across the nation founded by the government of India. These institutes are one of the top ranked Engineering colleges of the country. These were initially referred to as Regional Engineering Colleges. ‘NIT’ – the name had been given by MHRD minister Murli Manohar Joshi.

Matches and mismatches
These two are the top most technical institutions of India. Though they both offer various technical fields of studies, yet they have major differences in the structure, syllabus and administrations between these two.  IITs hold an upper hand over NITs in terms of ranking. If not IIT then the other option rests in NIT. If a same course is offered to a student by both of these public universities, a student will be definitely at-random go for IIT. Both the institutes offer Bachelors, Masters, PhD courses of the technical students.



Admission process- The entrance exam of IIT is known as IIT-JEE and it’s JEE (Main) for the NITs. For M.Tech or MS programs students need to clear an aptitude test which is done on the basis of Graduate Aptitude Engineering (GATE). IITs also have other graduate degrees such as- M.Sc In Maths, Physics, Chemistry, MBA, PhD etc. Admission to these courses in IIT is done through Common Admission Test (CAT). Whereas in NIT, they are implementing dual degree programs, included post graduate program with Bachelors under a period of 5 years. NIT gives admission on the basis of AIEEE ranks at Bachelors level. But for IIT you have to have a great grade in your 12th alongside a decent ranking in IIT-JEE. For IIT-JEE a student can appear for 2 successive times but for AIEEE there is no such limit.

Faculty- In IITs we have the best set of faculties even from the foreign universities. NITs are regional level institutes; which does never mean these institutes are having inferior panel of professors. But in comparison to the standard of IITs surely we see unevenness here. IITs have some outstanding research work performed by the complete association of students and faculties. These projects are designed for esteemed companies like ISRO, DRDO, BARC etc. Even NITs do research with them but not at the same degree.

Funding and placement- MNCs prefer IIT students over NITs IITs are run by central funding, NITs have state level funding. IITs have better infrastructure, huge campus, good research labs. IITs are globally known public universities. Alumni network of IITs are holding decisive positions in industry today.

_ By Educa India

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