Netaji Subhas University Of Technology

Netaji Subhas University of Technology charges Rs 2,70,000 for the first year of a B.Tech and Rs 3,33,000 for the fourth, and it publishes that bill one year at a time. The university most applicants still search for as NSIT sits in Sector 3, Dwarka, holds rank 70 among engineering institutions in NIRF 2025, and fills its B.Tech seats through Delhi's own joint counselling rather than the national JoSAA pool. The school a candidate passed class XII from decides which of two rank queues they stand in, and the two do not close at anything like the same number.

The university is older than its name. It opened in July 1983 as the Delhi Institute of Technology, set up by the then Delhi Administration with the approval of the Ministry of Human Resources Development, and its first intake was 45 students in electronics and communication engineering under the Faculty of Technology of the University of Delhi, per the university's history page. Administrative autonomy came in 1986, the institute was registered as a society in June 1987, doctoral programmes began in 1989, and four postgraduate programmes were approved by AICTE in 1994.

Two renamings follow, and only the second one made it a university. The institute worked out of the old I.G. Block at Kashmere Gate until 1998, was inaugurated in its Dwarka campus on 23 January 1997, and was renamed Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology by gazette notification that same year, on the same history page. University status arrived two decades later: the Lieutenant Governor of Delhi appointed 26 September 2018 as the date on which Netaji Subhas University of Technology came into existence, under the Delhi Netaji Subhas University of Technology Act, 2017, passed by the Delhi Legislative Assembly on 10 August 2017 and notified as Delhi Act 06 of 2018.

The Act did one more thing worth knowing before you compare NSUT with anything else: it reconstituted the institute as a non-affiliating university. NSUT teaches its own students and grants its own degrees, and it does not have colleges under it, unlike the state universities that carry hundreds.

Three campuses run under that single charter. The main campus in Sector 3, Dwarka covers 145 acres and is fully residential. In 2020 the Government of NCT of Delhi expanded the university by absorbing two existing government engineering institutions, and both kept teaching under new names: East Campus at Geeta Colony, formerly the Ambedkar Institute of Advanced Communication Technologies and Research, and West Campus at Jaffarpur, formerly Ch. Brahm Prakash Government Engineering College, as recorded in the JAC Delhi 2026 admission brochure that NSUT itself coordinates. A branch code carrying an asterisk in Delhi counselling is an East Campus seat, and a double asterisk is a West Campus seat, which is the practical thing to check before you rank a choice.

A search for this name returns two institutions that have nothing to do with it. Netaji Subhas University at Jamshedpur in Jharkhand and Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology at Patna in Bihar run their own admissions under their own managements, in other states, and nothing on this page describes either of them.

Eighteen B.Tech branches are on offer across the three campuses, and twelve of them sit on the Dwarka main campus. The list below is the one that goes into the Delhi counselling seat matrix, with the intake each branch carries, from the JAC Delhi 2026 brochure.

A B.Tech student may also take a minor degree alongside the major, and the framework is published rather than negotiated case by case. The brochure lists minors such as artificial intelligence, data science, VLSI and embedded systems, robotics and AI, renewable energy systems, power electronics and electric drives, health technologies, and structural engineering and construction management, each owned by a named department, so a bio-technology or mechanical student can carry an AI minor without changing branch.

Now the money, which is where the university differs most from the private options on the same shortlist. NSUT notifies the bill one year at a time and it climbs in each of them, from Rs 2,70,000 in the first year to Rs 3,33,000 in the fourth, so the first-year figure is a floor rather than an average, on the fee chapter of the brochure.

The first year arrives in two pieces rather than one. Rs 95,000 is the seat acceptance fee paid during online reporting in the counselling itself, and the balance of Rs 1,75,000 for B.Tech, or Rs 1,80,000 for B.Arch, is paid at the university afterwards, per the fee structure chapter of that brochure. The university also runs its own annual fee structure page, which carries the notified schedule for every session back to 2020-21 and is the document to check if you are reading this in a later admission cycle.

Fee support at NSUT runs through one named state scheme rather than a shelf of private scholarships. The university operates fee reimbursement for top ranking students and financial assistance for students from weaker financial backgrounds under the Chhatra Vittiya Sahayta Evam Protsahan Kosh (CVSPK) Scheme of 2020, and the same scheme carries incentives for students who go on to the defence services, the IIMs, highly ranked universities abroad, or a national competitive examination such as GATE or UPSC, per the brochure. The scheme documents themselves sit on the university's incentives page.

Beyond engineering and architecture the university teaches design, management, sciences and humanities. Its published ordinances and regulations cover B.Tech, B.Arch, BBA, M.Tech, MBA, the MBA-IEV in innovation, entrepreneurship and venture development, M.A., M.Sc. and Ph.D. programmes, listed on the educational programmes page, and a Bachelor of Design runs from the Department of Design on the main campus.

B.Tech and B.Arch admission is not run by the university on its own. Seats are allotted through the Joint Admission Counselling for Delhi, and for the 2026 cycle NSUT is the coordinating university for JAC Delhi, which is why the shared brochure carries its letterhead information first. Allotment is made strictly on the JEE Main 2026 Paper 1 Common Rank List for B.Tech, and on the Paper 2 rank for the B.Arch programme at West Campus, per the JAC Delhi 2026 brochure.

Region is settled by the school on the class XII certificate, not by where the family lives. A candidate who passed the qualifying examination from a recognised school, college or institute inside the National Capital Territory of Delhi is a Delhi region candidate, and one who passed it from an institution outside the NCT is an outside Delhi candidate, on the same brochure. Only for candidates who qualified through Patrachar Vidyalaya or the National Institute of Open Schooling does the brochure switch the test to the location of the examination centre. A Delhi address with a Noida or Gurugram school behind it therefore counts as outside Delhi, and the cutoff table below shows what that costs at NSUT.

Two counselling payments fall due before the university sees a rupee: a non-refundable Rs 1,500 registration and choice filling fee with transaction charges on top, and the Rs 95,000 seat acceptance fee that a first allotment in any round has to be held with, payable from the candidate's login or in cash at any SBI branch on an e-challan, both in the brochure. A seat taken in NSUT's own special spot round is paid for differently again, and in full: the whole first year as a demand draft in favour of Registrar NSUT FEE, carried to the venue on the day, per the special spot round notice.

One reservation detail is specific to this university. The Single Girl Child supernumerary seat that Delhi counselling creates over and above the normal intake exists only at DTU and IGDTUW, and NSUT does not carry it. What NSUT does carry is a Girl Child sub-category coded GL inside its own seat matrix, in every category and both regions, so those places come out of the sanctioned intake rather than sitting above it, on the seat matrix pages of the brochure.

Postgraduate and doctoral admission works the other way round and stays in the university's hands. NSUT runs its own admission portal on the Samarth platform for M.Tech, MBA, M.A., M.Sc. and Ph.D. entry, publishing its own vacancy lists and round notices there, and its M.Tech counselling for 2026-27 ran separate GATE and non-GATE rounds. B.Design admission is handled by the university directly through the Department of Design, which keeps its own admissions mailbox on the contact page rather than sharing the B.Tech helpline. Two more routes bypass JAC Delhi entirely: B.Tech lateral entry, notified on the UG admission page, and Direct Admission of Students Abroad, which is not run from nsut.ac.in at all but through the national DASA consortium portal, with only the reporting notices for admitted DASA candidates posted on the university's notice board.

The last published round of the 2026 cycle is Round 4, allotted on 14/07/2026 and read on the JEE Main 2026 Common Rank List, per the NSUT Round 4 cutoff list. The table below takes the general category with no sub-category, in both regions, because that is the pair most candidates need to place themselves against.

Read the two rank columns as two separate admissions systems, because that is what they are. A general candidate schooled in Delhi got computer science at 15825, while a general candidate from anywhere else needed 7573 for the same classroom, and the ratio widens as you go down the list: bio-technology closed at 90190 in the Delhi pool and 26083 outside it, per the Round 4 list. The Delhi region column is not a softer version of the outside column; it is a different queue with far more seats in it.

Order the branches before you order your choices. Computer science with artificial intelligence is the hardest seat on this campus rather than the consolation for a missed computer science rank: it closed at 10316 in the Delhi pool and 6206 outside, tighter than plain CSE in both, on the same list. Campus is the other axis, and it is a blunt one. Every East Campus branch closed between 33097 and 46162 in the Delhi pool and every West Campus branch between 79969 and 97869, while the main campus spanned 10316 to 90190, so the last seats to fill anywhere in the university were both at Jaffarpur: civil engineering at 92461 and geoinformatics at 97869.

Architecture behaves nothing like the rest of the university because it is ranked on a different paper. B.Arch closed at 4144 in the Delhi region and 548 outside it on the JEE Main Paper 2 rank, in the Round 4 list, and those figures cannot be compared with any B.Tech number on the page.

Round 4 is not where the cycle ends, and what was still vacant after it says more than the closing ranks do. NSUT ran its own special spot round at West Campus on 27.08.2026, and the general Delhi region seats it advertised were 21 in geoinformatics, 18 in mechanical engineering with electric vehicles, 11 in civil engineering, 7 in B.Arch and 2 in bio-technology, with nothing at all in computer science, information technology or electronics, per the special spot round notice. Every figure above is a photograph of one allotment, and the West Campus numbers are the least stable of them, because those are the branches a spot round reopens.

The dependable figure for NSUT is the median salary it files with the government, because the median describes the middle graduate rather than the loudest offer. The university's NIRF 2025 engineering submission reports three consecutive years.

The graduating cohort nearly doubled across those three years while the median held its ground, which is the more useful reading of the table than any single year. The 2021-22 batch of 896 became a 2023-24 batch of 1725, and the median moved from Rs 16,00,000 to Rs 17,00,000 and back to Rs 16,50,000, in that same filing. Absorbing that many more graduates without the middle salary falling is the outcome a growing intake is usually judged on.

Postgraduate engineering is a much smaller and thinner market here. The engineering filing reports 127 M.Tech students graduating in 2023-24 with 70 placed at a median of Rs 13,50,000, against 135 graduating and 93 placed a year earlier.

The non-engineering side of the university reports very different numbers, and a candidate looking at BBA or the other three-year degrees should look at them rather than at the B.Tech median. NSUT's NIRF 2025 state public university submission, which covers the whole institution rather than its engineering programmes alone, records 110 three-year undergraduates graduating in 2023-24 with 34 placed at a median of Rs 8,50,000, and 49 of that cohort going on to higher studies instead. Across the university's two-year postgraduate programmes the same filing records 240 graduating, 133 placed and a median of Rs 13,00,000.

There is no placement report on nsut.ac.in to set against those filings. The Training and Placement item in the university's own top menu leaves the domain for a separate site whose secure connection failed every time it was tried while this page was compiled, so the two NIRF submissions are the only NSUT placement figures on this page that are tied to a named cohort and a dated filing. The JAC Delhi brochure does carry an NSUT placement paragraph, naming recruiters and an annual package of Rs 1.25 crores offered by Google to eight students, but it dates that to "the past" and to no year, which is why none of it is repeated in the table above.

Every closing rank above is a consequence of one table. The JAC Delhi 2026 brochure files 2197 B.Tech places at NSUT for 2026 and strikes Delhi's 85 per cent and 15 per cent regional split inside each of the eighteen programmes rather than across the university total.

What that rule does to the general unreserved pool is the number to hold on to. Across all eighteen B.Tech branches the matrix carries 567 general Delhi region seats with no sub-category, against 100 general outside Delhi seats, in the seat distribution table. Computer science alone illustrates it: of its 216 places, 56 are general Delhi region and 9 are general outside Delhi.

B.Arch is a separate and much smaller matrix. Its 40 places at West Campus split as 34 for the Delhi region and 6 for candidates from outside, with 12 general Delhi region seats and 2 general outside Delhi seats inside those totals, in the same brochure.

NSUT's own filings do not agree with that matrix, and none of the three counts is wrong. Its NIRF 2025 engineering submission reports an approved four-year undergraduate intake of 2054 for 2023-24, up from 1876 in 2021-22, while the university-wide filing for that year reports 2114, because it reaches past the engineering programmes. Three counts of one undergraduate year therefore sit in the public record: 2197 counselling places in the brochure, 2114 in the university-wide filing and 2054 in the engineering one, and only the first is a list anybody can be allotted a seat from.

NSUT files two separate NIRF submissions and lands in two 2025 tables 31 places apart. The NIRF 2025 State Public University Ranking puts it 39th on 53.17; the NIRF 2025 Engineering Ranking, where it is measured against most of the IITs and NITs, puts it 70th on 50.43.

Read the five parameters rather than the two ranks. Graduation outcomes at 73.77 is NSUT's best engineering score and perception at 19.08 its worst, with research and professional practice at 27.14 sitting close to the bottom beside it, in the engineering table. An institution that scores in the seventies on what becomes of its graduates and in the twenties on what it publishes and on what its peers think of it is a teaching and placement university first. A candidate picking it for a Ph.D. should read those two numbers in the opposite order to one picking it for a B.Tech.

The two columns are not two opinions about the same thing. Each is scored from a separate data submission with a separate scope, which is why research scores 27.14 in the engineering table and 33.74 in the state public university table for the same year. The engineering filing counts only engineering programmes; the university filing counts design, management, sciences and humanities as well.

Teaching is organised under eight faculties, and the JAC Delhi 2026 brochure names them: Information Communication and Technology, Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, Interdisciplinary Studies, Infrastructure Technology, Design, Sciences, Humanities and Social Sciences, and Management Studies.

The department list underneath those faculties is longer than it first appears, because several disciplines run at more than one campus and each instance is a department in its own right. The university's departments page lists four subjects twice over, once at Dwarka and once at Geeta Colony: computer science and engineering, electronics and communication engineering, humanities and social sciences, and chemistry. Mechanical engineering is split the other way, between the main campus and West Campus. Everything else appears once. Information technology, instrumentation and control engineering, electrical engineering, biological sciences engineering, mathematics, physics, management studies and design are tagged to the main campus, civil engineering and geoinformatics to West Campus, and the brochure places architecture there as well, under the Faculty of Infrastructure Technology. Personality development and innovation, entrepreneurship and venture development carry no campus tag on the page at all.

The Dwarka campus is 145 acres and fully residential, with faculty and staff residences, a cooperative mess, a sports complex, two bank branches, an ATM and a shopping complex inside it, per the JAC Delhi 2026 brochure. The round-the-clock medical centre sits near the Type 5 faculty housing and treats students, staff and staff dependents free, with a general physician on weekdays and named visiting consultants for cardiology, eye surgery, gynaecology and homeopathy, plus ECG, blood sugar testing and a nebuliser on site, on the university's medical help page. Physiotherapy is listed among the campus facilities in the brochure, alongside a yoga and meditation centre and a professionally qualified psychologist for students.

Teaching space and computing are the two areas the university has built most recently. The APJ Lecture Theatre Complex holds ten smart lecture halls seating 125 each and a multipurpose hall seating 270, with recording and live streaming, air conditioning and CCTV built in, and the Central Computer Centre runs 400 all-in-one desktops and the campus wide wired and wireless network on a 1 Gbps National Knowledge Network link, in the same brochure. A Centre of Excellence in Artificial Intelligence, funded through the Delhi government's technical education department, provides high performance computing for degree and diploma institutions across the NCT, and two more centres, in the Internet of Things and a fabrication lab, are being set up.

The Central Library occupies the first and mezzanine floors of a centrally air conditioned building with a plinth area of 2000 square metres, and is described in the brochure as the largest in the Delhi Government Library Network. Sport is unusually well provided for a city campus: a 400 metre cinder running track, an international size cricket ground with three centre turf pitches and practice nets, an international size football field, an air conditioned gymnasium, and indoor badminton, billiards and table tennis facilities.

The two newer campuses are a different scale of place, and applicants should not read the Dwarka description onto them. East Campus at Geeta Colony occupies 8.5 acres with four academic departments, centralised air conditioning in its laboratories, a library, a computer centre, a playground and a rainwater harvesting system, in the brochure. West Campus at Jaffarpur sits on the outskirts of south west Delhi, roughly 8 km from Najafgarh and about 15 km from Dwarka Mor metro station, and runs an English language laboratory for mock interviews and group discussions along with field training such as the survey camp for civil engineering students.

Incubation is run in house through the NSUT Incubation and Innovation Foundation on the main campus, which supports startups by students, alumni and faculty with seed funding under Delhi government guidelines, and which won first prize in the Institution Supporting Startups category sponsored by NITI Aayog and AICTE, per the brochure.

Hostel capacity exists on the main campus and nowhere else in the university. Six hostels stand at Dwarka, four for men and two for women, named Aryabhata, Bhaskar, Raman and Ramanujan for the men and Sarasvati and Kaveri for the women, with Kaveri air conditioned, and there is no hostel facility at either the East or the West campus, so students posted there stay in paying guest accommodation nearby, per the JAC Delhi 2026 brochure.

The allotment rule is the part that decides whether a particular applicant gets a room. The university's hostels page states that the four men's hostels are organised one per year of study, each accommodating up to 276 students in single and double bedded rooms, and that rooms are allotted on the basis of permanent address sorted by distance, so candidates from outside Delhi are given top priority. Women's rooms are triple seater, on the brochure. Each hostel runs its own mess, with 24 hour water supply and power backup, a common room, gymnasium and reading room, and the university additionally maintains two hostels for 52 male and 52 female foreign students.

NSUT enters its faculty headcount twice for the same year, and the two entries do not match. The NIRF 2025 engineering submission declares 521 faculty members against the engineering programmes; the university-wide submission declares 577, the extra being the design, management, sciences and humanities staff the engineering filing has no place for.

Doctoral work is the clearest evidence of research capacity here, and it is entirely full time. The university filing records 431 Ph.D. students pursuing a doctoral programme up to 2023-24 with none of them part time, and the engineering filing counts 296 of those inside engineering, with 30 doctorates awarded in 2023-24 against 22 the year before.

Externally funded work is modest against that headcount and it swings hard year to year, which is the honest counterweight to the graduation outcome score. The engineering submission reports 22 sponsored projects in 2023-24 worth Rs 1,30,00,139 from 7 funding agencies, against 7 projects worth Rs 55,38,557 the year before, while consultancy moved the other way over the same two years: 9 projects worth Rs 1,16,12,364 from 2 client organisations, down from 13 projects worth Rs 3,58,82,334 from 7. Faculty members have published more than 1600 research papers in international journals and conferences since 2016, per the JAC Delhi 2026 brochure.

The university's own distinguished alumni page records one result above all others: Ira Singhal and Nidhi Gupta, both alumni of the institution, took All India Rank 1 and All India Rank 3 in the Union Public Service Commission civil services examination of 2014. The same page lists ten further alumni who cleared that examination in the same year, from All India Rank 160 down to 815, and notes that both toppers were serving Indian Revenue Service officers at the time.

That page has not been carried forward past the 2014 cohort, so it is a record of one exceptional year rather than a current list. NSUT publishes no verified roll of alumni in industry or research that we can point to, and this section names only the people its own record names.

The university's undergraduate admission page is where the live 2026 notices sit, and at the time of writing they were dominated by the tail of the admission season: final guidelines for the special spot round for B.Tech and B.Arch, reporting and balance fee submission instructions for newly admitted first semester students, separate orientation programmes for the main campus and East Campus, and a notice on lateral entry admissions.

Beyond admissions, the university's homepage carries a running notice board that mixes recruitment advertisements for faculty and non-teaching positions, tenders, and academic events such as the ICACIT international conference and a workshop on GIS and remote sensing for geoscience applications. A student watching for a Ph.D. or M.Tech opening is better served by that notice board than by any secondary listing.

The five institutions in Delhi's joint counselling are usually compared on rank alone, which hides the thing that separates them for most families. NSUT's first year B.Tech fee of Rs 2,70,000 sits within a few hundred rupees of Delhi Technological University's Rs 2,69,700, while IIIT-Delhi charges Rs 4,50,000 for the same year, all three from the fee chapter of the JAC Delhi 2026 brochure.

On the government's own measure NSUT sits behind both. The NIRF 2025 State Public University Ranking places Delhi Technological University at 13 with 63.50, IIIT-Delhi at 19 with 58.12 and NSUT at 39 with 53.17, and in the NIRF 2025 Engineering Ranking Delhi Technological University holds 30 with 60.85 against NSUT at 70 with 50.43.

So the trade is legible. For a Delhi region candidate whose rank will not reach DTU, NSUT offers the same fee bracket, the same JEE Main route and, on the brochure's own campus descriptions, 145 acres at Dwarka against IIIT-Delhi's 25 at Okhla Phase III, at a lower national standing. For an outside Delhi candidate the calculation changes entirely. Only 100 general seats across all eighteen NSUT branches are open to that pool, from the seat distribution table, and in seventeen of those eighteen branches the outside Delhi closing rank is less than half the Delhi region one, from a third of it in electronics to barely a quarter in mechanical engineering, on the Round 4 list. Computer science with artificial intelligence is the single exception, and only just.

Getting to the main campus is straightforward and getting to the other two is not. Dwarka Mor metro station is about 1 km from the main gate, with buses on routes 764, 727 and 783 running past it, while West Campus is reached only by DTC buses from Najafgarh, Dwarka Mor, Janakpuri, Uttam Nagar and Tilak Nagar, and East Campus is approached from Shastri Park, Laxmi Nagar or Nirman Vihar metro stations with a shared auto for the last stretch, per the brochure.

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