NIT Rourkela - National Institute of Technology Answered Questions

Candidates who have passed Class 12 with a minimum of 75% aggregate in PCM are eligible to take admission to BTech courses. Further, it is also necessary that the applicant qualify for JEE Main and JoSAA counselling. Candidates shall have academic certificates as well for verification purposes to prove their eligibility.

The total tuition fee for MSc courses is INR 30,000 and INR 75,000 for the BSc + MSc integrated courses. Apart from this, the total course fee includes other components such as hostel fee, admission fee, caution money and institute emergency fund as well. Candidates can visit the institute's official website for more details as the mentioned fee is as per unofficial sources and can vary.

 Eligible candidates who submit the applications and secure a good score in IIT JAM are shortlisted for further admission rounds. A cutoff for IIT JAM Counselling is then announced, based on which candidates have to appear for counselling to secure a seat. During counselling, document verification is done and if all the documents are fine, then students are admitted.

For courses like BTech, MTech, or MSc, students will have to apply on the respective accepted exam portal such as NTA, GOAPS, and IIT JAM, respectively. Below-mentioned is the application process for PG and PhD courses:Visit the official website, nitrkl.ac.in/ or on the respective entrance exam portal, such as NTA (nta.ac.in) for JEE.Fill out the application form.Upload the documents.Pay the application fee.Submit and print the application form.

NIT Rourkela M.Tech cutoff is based on GATE cutoff followed by GATE CCMT Counselling. For NIT Rourkela cutoff 2023, GATE CCMT was concluded with the release of Round 6. Candidates seeking NIT Rourkela admission 2024 can check out the closing ranks for previous year cutoff in the table below for top M.Tech specialisations for general category students:GATE Last Round score (General-All India)Course2023M.Tech. in Computer Science543M.Tech. in Information Security486M.Tech. in VLSI Design and Embedded Systems549M.Tech. in Machine Design and Analysis543  

NIT Rourkela has a big campus. The National Institute of Technology, Rourkela has a library, classrooms, hostels, and cafeterias. Some of the other campus facilities include central library, guest houses, sports facilities, and others. The university has conference halls, sports ground, canteen, and provides transportation facilities to students.

NIT Rourkela has an experienced faculty who are PhD, degree, and Diploma holders. National Institute of Technology, Rourkela employs Professors, Assistant Professors Grade-II, Associate Professors, and various other faculty members. NIT Rourkela also invites faculty for guest lectures. The university also arranges conferences, seminars, and student and faculty excahnge programmes.

Yes, NIT Rourkela offers equal opportunity to students to apply for the scholarships. Some of the scholarships provided by the university are PMS (Post-Matric Scholarships) (for SC-ST students) given by Orissa Government, Indian Oil Scholarships, and others. NIT is a government university hence the fee is not very high. Even if the students does not find the fee a little high, they can apply for the scholarships provided by the university. 

The placement record for the Metallurgy department at NIT Rourkela is good. In the year 2023, the highest package offered was INR 52.98 LPA and the average package was INR 12.95 LPA. The top recruiting companies for the Metallurgy department at NIT Rourkela are Tata Steel, Jindal Steel and Power, Vedanta, Hindalco Industries, and so on.