National Institute of Technology Delhi (NITD) is one of the thirty-one NITs established in the year 2010 by an Act of Parliament. The Institute has been declared as an Institute of National Importance.

NIT Delhi is an autonomous institute that functions under the aegis of the Ministry of Education, Government of India. It aims to provide instructions and research facilities in various disciplines of engineering, science and technology, management, social sciences, and humanities for advanced learning and dissemination of knowledge.

MISSION: Application of knowledge through learning and inculcating a research-orientated mindset towards design and innovative development for realistic societal solutions.

VISION: Committed to holistic development of lives and society by imparting knowledge of science and technology and crystallising the future.

NIT Delhi started its academic session in 2010 with three undergraduate B.Tech degree programmes in Computer Science and Engineering, Electronics and Communication Engineering, and Electrical and Electronics Engineering.