NIT Surathkal — Regular, Fees and Admission 2026

NIT Surathkal is a government institute that was established in the year 1960. The institute is located in Mangalore, Karnataka, and was upgraded as the National Institute of Technology Karnataka (NITK) in the year 2002. The Ministry of Education (MoE) has released the NIRF ranking 2025. As per the rankings, the National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal (NITK Surathkal) has achieved an NIRF rank of 17 in the Engineering category with a score of 64.59. NIT Karnataka Surathkal has also signed MoUs with institutes like NIT Andhra Pradesh, NIT Warangal, NIT Calicut, NIT Puducherry, GEC Thrissur, and GCT Coimbatore.

NITK Surathkal courses are offered at the UG and PG levels in various streams such as engineering, management, science, and information technology. Some of the popular NIT Surathkal courses include BTech, MBA, MCA, MTech, etc. For admission to its courses, NIT Surathkal accepts entrance exam scores. For BTech admission, JEE Main score is accepted. Other entrance tests such as GATE for MTech, IIT JAM for MSc, CAT for MBA, etc, are also accepted for NITK Surathkal admission. Selection for candidates for BTech is based on the JEE Main cutoff. As per NITK JEE Main cutoff 2025, the opening and closing ranks for BTech CSE is 1050-2726 for the general category.

NIT Surathkal placements are managed by its placement cell every year. According to NITK placements 2024, the highest and average packages offered were INR 55 LPA and INR 16.25 LPA, respectively. Some of the top recruiters include Amazon, Deloitte, Uber, Oracle, TATA, etc.

According to NIT Surathkal placement report 2024, 82-85% placement rate was achieved. The highest package offered during 2024 placements is Rs 42 LPA offered to a BTech student. Moreover, the average package offered to BTech students is Rs 18 LPA, MTech students is Rs 12.64 LPA and MCA students is Rs 16.76 LPA. Some of the top recruiters for NIT Surathkal Placements are Microsoft, Oracle, Wipro, Uber, Sprinklr, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Amazon, Samsung, Qualcomm, Dell, KPIT, etc.

NIT Surathkal Top Recruiters