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National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli (NIT Tiruchirappalli or NIT Trichy) is a public technical and research university near the city of Tiruchirappalli in Tamil Nadu, India. It was founded as Regional Engineering College Tiruchirappalli in 1964 by the Governments of India and Tamil Nadu under the affiliation of the University of Madras. The college was granted Deemed University status in 2003 with the approval of the University Grants Commission (UGC), All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) and Government of India and renamed as National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli. The institute is recognized as an Institute of National Importance by the Government of India under the National Institutes of Technology, Science Education and Research (NITSER) Act, 2007 and is one of the members of the National Institutes of Technology (NITs) system, a group of premier Indian technical institutes governed by the Council of NITSER.NIT Trichy is funded by the Ministry of Education (MoE), Government of India; and focuses exclusively on engineering, management, science, technology and architecture. The institute offers 10 bachelor's, 40 master's and 17 doctoral programmes through its 17 academic departments and awards more than 1900 degrees annually. The National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) ranked the institute first among the NITs for seven years in a row from 2016 to 2022. NIRF also ranked the institute 5 for architecture, 8 for engineering, 3 for management and 23 overall among the academic institutions in India in 2022. NIT Trichy was titled the "Best Industry-linked Centrally Funded Technical Institution in India" by the Confederation of Indian Industry in 2015, and "University of the Year" by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry in 2017.

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