UGC has granted Autonomous status to the Noida Institute of Engineering and Technology, Greater Noida (NIET, Greater Noida).

With this achievement, NIET becomes the first private educational institution in Uttar Pradesh to receive this status. As a fact, NIET will now curate its own course curriculum at par with industry demands. 

NIET has begun B.Tech (Computer Science and Business Systems) with TCS, B.Tech (Computer Science) with Amazon, B.Tech-CSE (Data Science) with Dell and B.Tech-CSE (Artificial Intelligence).

As per, Dr O P Agarwal, Managing Director, NIET started its journey of engineering education with the affiliation of erstwhile Uttar Pradesh Technical University (UPTU) in 2001. 

He said, “I believe that happiness is natural when it comes to success, but even more important is that we keep on continuously achieving new goals so that the society and the people have unwavering faith in NIET for providing qualitative and comprehensive education with excellent employment.

The objective of NIET is to provide quality and multi-faceted education to the students of every section of the society so that we can prepare them to contribute to the creation of  bright future of the country and above all, make them a responsible citizen of this country and make a good human being.”

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Atal Ranking of Institutions on Innovation Achievements (ARIIA-2020) announced by Honorable Vice President of India, Shri M Venkaiah Naidu and Union Minister Dr Ramesh Pokhariyal 'Nishank' on 18 August 2020, found NIET, Greater Noida ranking among the top 50 institutes in the category of private higher education institutions in the country.

On 11 June 2020, Dr Ramesh Pokhariyal 'Nishank'  Union Minister, announced the NIRF 2020 in which NIET Pharmacy Institute ranked 49th in the country and NIET Engineering Institute secured its position in 201-250 rank band. 

NIET's B.Tech Computer Science and Engineering, Electronics and Communication Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Information Technology, Biotechnology and BPharm courses are NBA accredited and the institute is NAAC (A grade, 3.23) accredited. 

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Shri Praveen Soneja, Director-General NIET said, “ After getting the autonomous status, we will be able to provide our students, faculty and staff with a better & conducive environment for their holistic development and bringing out their talent in a global perspective.”

Dr Vinod M Kapse, Director, NIET believes, the institute will now be able to start certificate courses for its internal as well as external students.

NIET: International Collaborations for Student Development

NIET has tie-ups with multinationals including Mercedes-Benz ADAM Lab, Apple University Program Partner, Cisco Networking Academy, Automation Anywhere, UIPath Academic Alliance, Intel AI Academy, PTC Center of Excellence, Amazon Web Services, Pearson Testing Center, Cambridge English Language Assessment Center, Oracle Workforce Development Program.

It has also collaborated with Dell-EMC Academy, Delta Center of Robotics, IBM-Watson IoT Lab, Palo Alto Academy, Pega Center of Excellence, Salesforce Academy, BMW Skill Next Program, KPIT Sparkle, ARC Advanced Robotic Control Lab (Indo-Euro Sync, Germany), Wipro GE, College of Engineering Pune, SAP Academy, Intel Intelligence Systems Lab and VM Ware Lab among the prominent names. 

NIET has a Center of Competence for each collaboration, which aims to encourage education and disseminate engineering studies in a broader technical and interdisciplinary context. These innovation laboratories are fully dedicated to preparing students as per the latest industry requirements.