National Institute of Technology, Patna

Central library

• Central Library
• Computer Center
• Student Activity center (SAC)
• GYM (separate for boys and girls.)
• College Canteens(Govt Canteen, Nescafe Canteen)
• TT and Badminton court with Synthetic International flooring
• Squash Courts
• Medical Center
• Cricket / Football Ground with stands for 1000+ students

The institute includes the department of Architecture & Planning, Engineering departments of civil engineering, computer science & engineering, electrical engineering, electronics & communication engineering and mechanical engineering. In addition there is an architecture department and departments for physics, chemistry, mathematics and social sciences and humanities.[3]

The institute maintains a central library which has 150,000 books and 1,100 e-journals and works for only about 10 hours per day. The Central Library has an e-resource section on the Ground floor, a study section and Library office on the First floor and a separate study room . Library is fully air conditioned and well cleaned . Security is also available on the each floor for 24 hours.

The institute has a computer center with six computer labs and a two virtual classrooms equipped with computing and audio-visual facilities such as interactive boards, and projectors. The labs have CCTV cameras for conducting online interviews, tests and presentations. CC has Internet connectivity throughout the day so students can use internet facility. A central bandwidth of 1GBps provided by RailTel for uninterrupted high-speed Internet connection.

NIT Patna was ranked 56^th among engineering colleges in India by the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) in 2023.[5]

From institute website to the annual cultural fest, the institute delegates responsibility to its students wherever possible. With activities and competitions taking place every other day, students are provided with opportunities to develop their soft skills and therefore broaden their perspective. A few notable events are listed below.

Underground Authority performing at Corona 2014

Until 2015 the college had two separate festivals, the cultural fest Melange and the technical fest Corona. From 2015 onwards the college celebrates Corona and Melange together, occurring every year in January. The event is entirely managed by students. Students from colleges all over the country participate including students from IIT Patna, BIT Patna, Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology,[6] Rajasthan College of Engineering for Women, Arya Institute of Engineering and Technology, Bengal College of Engineering and Technology,[7] NIT Tripura and NIT Mizoram.[8] Some events also invite students from local schools such St. Michael's High School, Patna, Loyola High School, Patna and Don Bosco Academy.[7]

Cultural fest activities include events such as face painting, singing, dancing, antakshari and rangoli competitions[9] as well as art and craft exhibitions and sports.[8] Technical events include robotics,[6] circuit designing, programming, and presentation competitions and workshops.[7] The festival includes lectures by renown people such as Kumar Vishwas, Irshad Kamil and Srijan Pal Singh. The event also includes performances from bands such as Underground Authority in Corona 2014[9] and Raeth in Corona 2015.

The students of NIT Patna also celebrate Parakram, the annual intramural sport festival.

Every year in January, NIT Patna holds a week with events such as cricket, football, table tennis, badminton, carom, and discus throw. Managed by students, this event tests their organising and managerial skills. NIT Patna cricket team were runners up in 2018 inter NIT Trophy. The NIT Patna Strength Games team, which includes weightlifting, powerlifting and bodybuilding has won the overall champions' trophy consecutively in 2018 as well as 2019, while bagging the 'best lifter' trophy in both the years (Kumar Aman, mtech '18 and Rajendra Meena, btech '19)

Nitish Kumar (an alumnus of NIT Patna) as a chief guest at a NIT Patna alumni meet

The institute recognizes these major societies:

• The Cultural Society organizes a cultural extravaganza under the name Mélange – the melting pot of talents.
• The Common Room Society organizes indoor games competitions like chess, carom, table tennis, badminton, and Su-doku championship.
• The Outdoor Society conducts field events like cricket, football, volleyball, javelin, discus and includes the Athletic Society, which conducts the athletic events.
• The EXE-Extreme Engineering society provides lectures on robotics and embedded systems which is no more functional because of lack of administrative support.
• NIT-Patna started up student chapters with an internationally recognized societies like ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) for ME students and IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) for ECE and EE students.
• SANKALP Ghar Ghar Shiksha Ka[10]- An organization established by the students of NIT Patna in 2007, to teach unprivileged kids from nearby slums. The organization comes under NSS.[11]
• INCUBATION CENTER[12]- Government of Bihar unveiled the Bihar & Start Policy 2017 to foster entrepreneurship and selected NIT Patna as one of the pilot institutes.
• Incubation Center is officially in the list of incubators under the Bihar & Start Policy 2017.

The housing facilities (hostels) are:

Boys hostels:

• Sone Hostel Block A (earlier known as New Engineer's Hostel)
• Sone Hostel Block B (earlier known as Engineer's Hostel-1)
• Kosi Hostel (new)
• Bagmati Hostel (earlier known as Engineers' Hostel-2)
• Brahmaputra Hostel (new)

Girls hostels:

• Ganga Hostel (Blocks A, B and C earlier knows as Girl Engineer's Hostel – GEH )

These hostels now can accommodate all of the students because of the newly constructed Brahmaputra hostel making it a fully residential campus.