Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology (VNIT) is in Nagpur, Maharashtra. It began in 1960 as Visvesvaraya Regional College of Engineering, set up under a scheme sponsored by the Government of India and the Government of Maharashtra by amalgamating the state government engineering college that had operated in Nagpur since 1956. In 1962 its governing board named it after Sir M. Visvesvaraya.
The Government of India gave the institute deemed university status from 26 June 2002, and the National Institutes of Technology Act, 2007 declared it an Institute of National Importance from 15 August 2007. Its campus covers about 214 acres. Its NIRF 2024 data submission, the latest on its website, reports 4,321 students in undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in 2022-23, plus 445 PhD students. Prof. Prem Lal Patel took charge as Director on 21 May 2024.