The National Institute of Technology Karnataka is also known as NITK, Surathkal and is one of the 30 NITs of India and is reckoned as one of the top technological universities of India. It was established in 1960, when it was also known as the Karnataka Regional Engineering College. It was declared as Institutes of National Importance by the National Institutes of Technology Act, 2007.

• It is situated near the city of Mangalore beside the Kanyakumari-Mumbai Highway. It is well linked by rail and road and by air to main cities of India and a few international location.
  NITK has a lush green campus sprawling over 250 acres of land.
• NITK is an conglomeration of 14 Departments, 12 Supporting Centers, 200 Highly Experienced and Dedicated Faculty, 300 Dedicated Supporting Staff, 3900 endowed and motivated Students, 16200 illustrious Alumni and 49 years of expertise in producing world Class Engineers and Leaders.
• NITK is consistently rated amongst the best NITs, and has good industry relations due to its location being in Karnataka. Some of the past recruiter of the institute are- Google, Microsoft, Amazon, L&T, Indian Oil etc.
• It also conducts various International conferences and symposium on fields related to engineering. Such as- International Conference on Eco-friendly Computing and Communication Systems (ICECCS), International Symposium on Electronic System Design (ISED 2014) etc.