The Dr B R Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar popularly known as NIT-Jalandhar or NITJ , is a leading premier autonomous university in northern India. The Dr B R Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar is one of the youngest among the twenty National Institutes of Technology of India. It was founded in 1987, as a joint venture between the Government of Punjab and the Government of India, originally under the name Punjab Regional Engineering College, Jalandhar (PREC). The institution was established in the year 1987 as Regional Engineering College and on October 17, 2002, was given the status of National Institute of Technology (Deemed University) by the Government of India under the control of Ministry of Human Resource Development, New Delhi, India, in a bid to provide increased autonomy in decision-making. NITJ is a leading premier centre of excellence in Engineering and Technology to produce technical manpower for India. The institute offers BTech program in nine disciplines of Engineering and Technology along with research programs leading to MTech and PhD. The institute acquires a national character having 50% student intake from Punjab and the rest from other states/union territories of the country.