The National Institute of Technology Goa (NITGoa) is a premier technical Institute of the region. NITGoa was established in the year 2010 by an act of parliament (NIT act 2007) and it is declared as ‘Institute of National Importance ‘. NITGoa is an autonomous institute and functioning under the aegis of Ministry of Human Resource Development(MHRD), Govt. of India. The campus is located at Farmagudi, Ponda approximately 29 km southeast of Panaji, the capital of Goa and it is a temporary campus. The state of Goa is well connected by road ways, rail ways and air ways with various parts of the country.

NIT Goa started its academics in 2010 with three engineering departments (1) Computer Science and Engineering (2) Electronics and Communication Engineering and (3) Electrical and Electronics Engineering at undergraduate level. NITGoa attracts students from all over the country and abroad. The Institute admits students into the B.Tech degree program on the basis of ranks obtained in the Joint Entrance Examination JEE(Main) and the scheme of Direct Admission to Students Abroad (DASA) with an intake of 30 students in each branch. The institute is sincerely attempting to deliver quality education and to achieve excellence in teaching, learning and research with high professional ethics.

National Institute of Technology Goa shall emerge as one of the nation's pre-eminent institutions. Through its excellence, it shall serve Goan society, India and the global society at large with all its challenges and opportunities.

NIT Goa strives for quality faculty, good students and excellent infrastructure. Strives for excellence, through dissemination, generation and application of knowledge laying stress on interdisciplinary approach in all branches of Science, Engineering, Technology, Humanities and Management with emphasis on human values and ethics.