Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad

Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology (MNNIT or NIT Allahabad), formerly Motilal Nehru Regional Engineering College, is located in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, India, and is one of the 31 National Institutes of Technology. It is recognized as an Institute of National Importance under the National Institutes of Technology, Science Education and Research Act, 2007. Established in 1961 as one of the seventeen Regional Engineering Colleges, it was founded jointly by the Government of India and the Government of Uttar Pradesh, with its foundation stone laid by Jawaharlal Nehru. It began with undergraduate courses in Civil, Electrical, and Mechanical Engineering, and became a deemed university in 2002, adopting its current name. The institute was the first in India to start an undergraduate program in Computer Science and Engineering, in 1976-77. It currently offers ten B.Tech programs, 23 M.Tech programs, MCA, M.Sc., MBA, and PhD programs. Admissions to these programs are through JEE Main, GATE, NIMCET, IIT-JAM, and management entrance exams. MNNIT was ranked 62nd among engineering colleges by NIRF in 2025 and 130th among research institutes in India by Nature Index in 2024. It houses two supercomputers, PARAM 8000 and PARAM 10000.