IIT, IIM, AIIMS and NIT Locations in India: Complete Static GK List with City, State and Year

Introduction

Questions on the locations of India's premier institutes are among the safest marks available in any general awareness paper. Examiners like them because the answer is factual, has no ambiguity, and can be framed in many ways: which state has a particular IIT, which city hosts the oldest IIM, which was the first NIT in India, or how many AIIMS are functional today. Once you memorise the city and state of each institute, you can answer all of these variations without any calculation or reasoning.

The four biggest families are the Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT), the Indian Institutes of Management (IIM), the All India Institutes of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) and the National Institutes of Technology (NIT). All of them are Institutions of National Importance (INI), which means Parliament has given them special status, greater autonomy and direct central funding. As of June 2026, India has 173 Institutions of National Importance in total, and the four families above account for 96 of them.

This page organises every institute by generation and by state so that the list is easy to revise rather than just easy to read. Keep it open alongside your notes on Static GK topics for competitive exams, because location-based questions repeat with very little change from one exam cycle to the next.

Core Concepts You Must Understand First

Before memorising the tables, fix these five ideas in your mind. Most wrong answers in this topic come from confusing the concepts below, not from forgetting a city name.

• Institution of National Importance (INI): a public higher education institute given special status by the Constitution or by an Act of Parliament. It gets greater autonomy, its own degree-awarding powers and direct funding from the Government of India.
• Each family has its own Act: IITs run under the Institutes of Technology Act, 1961; NITs and IISERs under the National Institutes of Technology, Science Education and Research Act, 2007; AIIMS under the All India Institute of Medical Sciences Act, 1956; and IIMs under the Indian Institutes of Management Act, 2017.
• Established year is not always the year it became an IIT or NIT: IIT Roorkee was founded in 1847 but became an IIT only in 2001. NIT Patna traces back to 1886 but became an NIT in 2004. Read the question carefully to see which year is being asked.
• Approved is not the same as operational: around 25 AIIMS have been approved, but only 20 are fully functional and admitting MBBS students. Exams usually ask about operational campuses.
• Some institutes do not carry their family name: six NITs have personality-based names such as MANIT Bhopal and VNIT Nagpur, and two IITs carry a bracketed suffix, namely IIT (BHU) Varanasi and IIT (ISM) Dhanbad.

Quick Count of Institutions of National Importance (as of June 2026)

All 23 IITs: City, State and Year of Establishment

The IITs are the best known Institutions of National Importance in the country. They were created as centres of excellence in engineering, technology and scientific research, and admission to their B.Tech programmes is through JEE Advanced. For memory purposes it helps to split them into three groups: the seven old IITs, the two converted institutes with bracketed names, and the fourteen new IITs set up between 2008 and 2016.

The Seven Old IITs (1951 to 2001)

The Two Converted IITs with Bracketed Names

The Fourteen New IITs (2008 to 2016)

IIT Quick Facts Worth Memorising

• First IIT: IIT Kharagpur, West Bengal, 1951.
• Newest IITs: the 2016 group of Bhilai, Goa, Jammu, Dharwad and the converted IIT (ISM) Dhanbad. No new IIT has been inaugurated after that.
• Oldest institution among IITs: IIT Roorkee, founded 1847.
• Only state with more than one IIT: Uttar Pradesh, which has IIT Kanpur and IIT (BHU) Varanasi.
• Approximate B.Tech seats across all IITs: around 17,000 to 18,000, allocated through JoSAA counselling.

All 22 IIMs: City, State and Year of Establishment

The IIMs are the country's leading institutions for business education and management research, and admission to their flagship MBA programmes is through the Common Admission Test (CAT). The Indian Institutes of Management Act, 2017 empowered them to award MBA degrees instead of post graduate diplomas. Aspirants usually study them in three waves: the old IIMs, the new IIMs of 2007 to 2011, and the baby IIMs from 2015 onwards.

Old IIMs (1961 to 1996) and IIM Mumbai

New IIMs (2007 to 2011)

Baby IIMs (2015 to 2026)

IIM Quick Facts Worth Memorising

• First IIM: IIM Calcutta, 1961, followed within weeks by IIM Ahmedabad in the same year.
• Newest IIM: IIM Guwahati, 2026, the 22nd IIM.
• Only IIM named after a person: IIM Shillong, officially the Rajiv Gandhi Indian Institute of Management.
• Only IIM created by renaming an existing institute: IIM Mumbai, formerly NITIE.
• Only state with two IIMs: Maharashtra, with Mumbai and Nagpur.
• Two IIMs in the North East: Shillong in Meghalaya and Guwahati in Assam.

All Operational AIIMS: City, State and Year

AIIMS institutes are set up under the All India Institute of Medical Sciences Act, 1956 and function directly under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. MBBS admission is through NEET UG under 100 per cent All India Quota, while postgraduate admission is through INI CET. The expansion beyond Delhi happened in phases under the Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana (PMSSY). As of 2026 about 25 AIIMS have been approved and 20 are fully operational with a combined MBBS intake of roughly 2,257 seats.

The 20 Operational AIIMS

Upcoming and Under-Construction AIIMS

These campuses have been approved or announced but are not yet fully operational. Exams sometimes ask which AIIMS is proposed rather than functional, so it is worth knowing the difference.

All 31 NITs: City, State and Year of Establishment

The NITs are technical institutions focused on engineering and technology, and they are second only to the IITs in academic reputation among government engineering institutes. Most of them began as Regional Engineering Colleges (RECs), which were joint ventures between the Centre and the states started from 1959 during the Second Five Year Plan. All RECs were renamed as NITs in 2002, and the family received Institute of National Importance status through the National Institutes of Technology Act, 2007. Admission to B.Tech programmes is through JEE Main.

Older NITs and Former Regional Engineering Colleges (up to 1987)

Newer NITs (2010 and 2015)

NIT Quick Facts Worth Memorising

• First NIT or REC: NIT Warangal, 1959, foundation stone laid by Jawaharlal Nehru on 10 October 1959.
• Newest NIT: NIT Andhra Pradesh at Tadepalligudem, 2015.
• Oldest lineage: NIT Patna, tracing back to 1886.
• Year all RECs became NITs: 2002. INI status came through the NIT Act, 2007.
• Six NITs that do not start with NIT: MANIT Bhopal, VNIT Nagpur, MNIT Jaipur, MNNIT Allahabad, SVNIT Surat and Dr. B. R. Ambedkar NIT Jalandhar.
• NITs named after the state rather than the city: NIT Karnataka, NIT Andhra Pradesh, NIT Arunachal Pradesh, NIT Manipur, NIT Meghalaya, NIT Mizoram, NIT Nagaland, NIT Sikkim and NIT Uttarakhand.

IIT versus NIT: Structural Differences

Comparison questions between the two engineering families appear regularly in general awareness and interview stages. The figures below are indicative and change slightly every admission cycle, so treat them as approximate magnitudes rather than exact values.

Courses Offered by IITs and NITs

For postgraduate science programmes such as M.Sc at IITs and NITs, the relevant entrance test is IIT JAM, while GATE is used for M.Tech admission and for many public sector recruitments. Aspirants preparing for PSU recruitment through GATE should also revise the latest government job notifications regularly, since technical recruitment cycles open with short deadlines.

Related Institute Families Asked in the Same Question Slot

Examiners often mix the four big families with the smaller INI families in a single question. The tables below give you the location of every campus in these groups so that you are not caught off guard.

All 25 IIITs (Indian Institutes of Information Technology)

All 7 IISERs, 7 NIPERs, 5 NIDs, 3 SPAs and 2 NIFTEMs

All 18 NIFT Campuses

Note the correct expansion: NIFT stands for National Institute of Fashion Technology, not Indian Institute of Fashion Technology. It functions under the Ministry of Textiles through the NIFT Act, 2006.

Other Important National Institutes and Their Locations

Central Universities and the Constitutional INIs

• India has around 56 central universities, of which 10 hold Institution of National Importance status.
• Banaras Hindu University (Varanasi), Aligarh Muslim University (Aligarh) and University of Delhi are INIs through Entry 63 of the Union List in the Seventh Schedule of the Constitution, not through a separate Act.
• BHU and AMU were listed at the very commencement of the Constitution, while University of Delhi was added by the 32nd Constitutional Amendment in 1973.
• Other frequently asked central universities include Jawaharlal Nehru University, Jamia Millia Islamia, IGNOU and South Asian University in Delhi, Visva Bharati in West Bengal, Nalanda University in Bihar, Pondicherry University in Puducherry, North Eastern Hill University in Meghalaya and Sindhu Central University in Ladakh.
• Specialised central universities worth noting are Indian Maritime University (Tamil Nadu), Gati Shakti Vishwavidyalaya (Gujarat), National Sports University (Manipur), Rajiv Gandhi National Aviation University (Uttar Pradesh) and English and Foreign Languages University (Telangana).

Memory Tricks and Mnemonics

Location lists are pure recall, so the fastest way to lock them in is with acronyms, contrast pairs and small stories. Use the eight tricks below and revise them once a week rather than reading the full tables again and again.

Trick 1: The Seven Old IITs in Order

The chronological order is Kharagpur, Bombay, Madras, Kanpur, Delhi, Guwahati, Roorkee. Take the first letters: K B M K D G R.

• Mnemonic sentence: Kind Boys Make Kanpur Delhi Go Round.
• Years to attach: 1951, 1958, 1959, 1959, 1961, 1994, 2001.
• Story anchor: the list starts in Bengal, moves west to Mumbai, drops south to Chennai, climbs to Kanpur and Delhi, jumps east to Guwahati and finishes in the hills at Roorkee. Visualise that zig-zag on a map once and the order stays.

Trick 2: The Six Old IIMs in Order

The order is Calcutta, Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Lucknow, Kozhikode, Indore, giving C A B L K I.

• Mnemonic sentence: CAB Le Kar Indore, meaning take a cab to Indore.
• Years to attach: 1961, 1961, 1973, 1984, 1996, 1996.
• Contrast point to remember: the first two share the year 1961, and the last two share the year 1996. Only Bangalore in 1973 and Lucknow in 1984 stand alone.

Trick 3: The Six NITs That Do Not Start With NIT

Six NITs are named after national figures. In the order Bhopal, Nagpur, Jaipur, Prayagraj, Surat, Jalandhar the initials of the names are M V M M S A.

• Mnemonic sentence: My Very Magnificent Mother Served Ambedkar.
• Expansion: Maulana Azad at Bhopal, Visvesvaraya at Nagpur, Malaviya at Jaipur, Motilal Nehru at Prayagraj, Sardar Vallabhbhai at Surat, Ambedkar at Jalandhar.
• Link the person to the place: Malaviya founded BHU but his NIT is at Jaipur, and Motilal Nehru's NIT keeps the old name Allahabad even though the city is now Prayagraj.

Trick 4: The Four Founding Years and the Four Acts

Fix the four first institutes on one number line: 1951, 1956, 1959, 1961.

• 1951 IIT Kharagpur, 1956 AIIMS New Delhi, 1959 NIT Warangal, 1961 IIM Calcutta.
• The gaps are neat: plus five, plus three, plus two. Mnemonic: Kharagpur Doctor Warangal Calcutta, five three two.
• Now the Acts in chronological order: AIIMS 1956, IIT 1961, NIT 2007, IIM 2017. Mnemonic: Ask If NITs Improved, giving A-I-N-I.
• Notice the pleasing coincidence to remember: the NIT Act came in 2007 and the IIM Act exactly ten years later in 2017.

Trick 5: Institute Name Versus Actual City

The single biggest source of wrong answers is an institute whose name does not match the city where it sits. Learn these as pairs.

• NIT Calicut is at Kozhikode, because Calicut is the older name of the same city.
• MNNIT Allahabad is at Prayagraj, the renamed city.
• NIT Puducherry is at Karaikal, not in Puducherry city.
• NIT Uttarakhand is at Srinagar in Pauri Garhwal, not the Kashmiri Srinagar.
• NIT Karnataka is at Surathkal near Mangaluru.
• NIT Nagaland is at Chumoukedima near Dimapur, not at Kohima.
• NIT Sikkim is at Ravangla, not at Gangtok.
• IIM Sirmaur is at Paonta Sahib, since Sirmaur is the district name.
• AIIMS Vijaypur is near Jammu in Samba district, and is popularly called AIIMS Jammu.
• IIT Goa began at Farmagudi in Ponda, while NIT Goa is at Cuncolim.

Trick 6: The Five Three-Institute Cities

No single Indian city has all four of IIT, IIM, AIIMS and NIT. But exactly five cities have three of them, and they are the highest value facts in this whole topic.

• Patna: IIT plus NIT plus AIIMS.
• Raipur: NIT plus IIM plus AIIMS.
• Jammu: IIT plus IIM plus AIIMS, counting AIIMS Vijaypur just outside the city.
• Guwahati: IIT plus IIM plus AIIMS, with Assam's NIT sitting far away at Silchar.
• Nagpur: VNIT plus IIM plus AIIMS.
• Mnemonic for the five: Please Read Just Great Notes, giving P R J G N.
• Two-institute cities worth adding: Indore with IIT and IIM, Tiruchirappalli with NIT and IIM, Kozhikode with NIT and IIM, Shillong with NIT and IIM, Bhubaneswar with IIT and AIIMS, and Jodhpur with IIT and AIIMS.

Trick 7: The Six AIIMS of 2012

After AIIMS New Delhi in 1956, the next six AIIMS all became operational together in 2012 under PMSSY: Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Jodhpur, Patna, Raipur, Rishikesh.

• Initials: B B J P R R. Mnemonic: Big Brothers Join Patna, Raipur, Rishikesh.
• Notice that two start with B and two with R, so you only really have to remember Jodhpur and Patna separately.
• After 2012 the batches are easy: four in 2018, four in 2019, four in 2020 and one in 2021. That is 1 plus 6 plus 4 plus 4 plus 4 plus 1, which equals 20.

Trick 8: Counting Trick for the Four Families

Remember the four totals as an ascending and descending pattern: 20 AIIMS, 22 IIMs, 23 IITs, 31 NITs.

• Mnemonic: Medicine 20, Management 22, Technology 23, National 31. Alphabetically AIIMS comes first and it also has the smallest number, which makes it easy to anchor.
• The three numbers 20, 22 and 23 are almost consecutive, and only the NIT figure of 31 breaks away. If you remember that NITs are the largest family among the four, you will not mix them up.
• Add the smaller families in descending order: 25 IIITs, 7 IISERs, 7 NIPERs, 5 NIDs, 3 SPAs, 2 NIFTEMs. Note that IISERs and NIPERs share the same count of seven.

Additional Notes

Frequently Confused Facts

• First NIT versus NIT Rourkela: the first Regional Engineering College and therefore the first NIT is NIT Warangal, 1959. Several study notes wrongly credit NIT Rourkela, which came in 1961. If the question asks for the first NIT, the answer is Warangal.
• First IIT versus oldest institution: the first IIT is Kharagpur, 1951, but the oldest institution that is now an IIT is Roorkee, founded 1847 and converted in 2001.
• IIT Delhi 1961 or 1963: it began as the College of Engineering in 1961 and was renamed IIT Delhi in 1963. Both years are correct for different questions.
• IISc is not an IIT: the Indian Institute of Science at Bengaluru was founded in 1909 and is a separate institute. It appears in GATE brochures alongside IITs, which is what causes the confusion.
• NITIE is no longer an NIT: the National Institute of Industrial Engineering, Mumbai was renamed IIM Mumbai in 2023. Older lists that include NITIE among the NITs are outdated, which is why the NIT count is 31 and not 32.
• NIST is not an Indian institute: the National Institute of Standards and Technology is a United States federal agency. Do not place it in any Indian city in an exam answer.
• NIFT full form: it is the National Institute of Fashion Technology, not the Indian Institute of Fashion Technology.
• Bilaspur versus Bilaspur: AIIMS Bilaspur is in Himachal Pradesh. Chhattisgarh also has a city called Bilaspur, but the state's AIIMS is at Raipur.
• Bathinda versus Jodhpur: AIIMS Bathinda in Punjab stands in a locality named Jodhpur Romana, which is unrelated to AIIMS Jodhpur in Rajasthan.
• Two Srinagars: NIT Srinagar is in Jammu and Kashmir, while NIT Uttarakhand is at Srinagar in Pauri Garhwal district.
• Guwahati has three but not four: IIT, IIM and AIIMS are all at Guwahati, but Assam's NIT is at Silchar in the Barak valley.
• IIT (BHU) versus BHU: IIT (BHU) Varanasi is an IIT under the Institutes of Technology Act, while Banaras Hindu University is a central university that is an INI through the Constitution's Seventh Schedule. They share a campus but are distinct entities.
• Approved versus operational AIIMS: about 25 are approved but only 20 are operational. Darbhanga, Awantipora, Rewari, Manipur, Karnataka and Kozhikode are still coming up.
• Entrance exam mapping: JEE Advanced for IITs, JEE Main for NITs, CAT for IIMs, NEET UG for AIIMS MBBS, INI CET for AIIMS postgraduate, GATE for M.Tech and IIT JAM for M.Sc.

Repeating PYQ Patterns

• SSC CGL, CHSL and MTS: the most common format is a straight one-liner such as which state hosts a named IIT or AIIMS, or which was the first institute of a family. Warangal, Kharagpur, Calcutta and New Delhi appear again and again.
• IBPS PO, Clerk and Insurance exams: these papers treat new institutes as current affairs. IIM Guwahati in 2026 is the kind of fact that will be asked as the newest IIM or as Assam's first IIM. Pair this with your daily current affairs revision so that new campuses do not slip through.
• RRB NTPC, Group D and ALP: Railway papers favour founding years and first institutes, especially IIT Kharagpur 1951, AIIMS New Delhi 1956 and the Nehru connection with NIT Warangal in 1959.
• UPSC Prelims: direct location questions are rare. UPSC prefers the framework layer, such as what Institution of National Importance status means, which Act governs a family, or which scheme drove the AIIMS expansion. The answer to that last one is the Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana.
• State PSC exams: expect questions on institutes located inside the state, so a Bihar aspirant should be able to name IIT Patna, NIT Patna, AIIMS Patna, IIM Bodh Gaya, IIIT Bhagalpur, NIPER Hajipur and Nalanda University without hesitation.
• Defence exams such as NDA, CDS and AFCAT: these use the same location one-liners as SSC, often mixed with headquarters of research bodies like ICAR, NIO and ISI.

Quick Insight

This topic is unusual in Static GK because it keeps moving. India crossed 173 Institutions of National Importance in June 2026, and the newest entry, IIM Guwahati, was inaugurated only on 14 February 2026 with an allocation of around Rs 555 crore and mentoring from IIM Ahmedabad. On the medical side, the Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana continues to add capacity, with AIIMS Darbhanga and AIIMS Rewari expected to scale their clinical courses in the coming years while AIIMS Madurai still runs from a temporary campus. Internationally, the IIT brand has begun to travel, with IIT Madras opening a campus in Zanzibar, Tanzania and IIT Delhi opening a campus in Abu Dhabi, both of which have already appeared in general awareness sections.

The practical takeaway is simple: memorise the stable core of the list once, then update only the newest additions every few months. Reinforce the recall by attempting a Static GK quiz on Indian institutes after each revision, because retrieval practice works far better on location lists than passive rereading. If your target exam has a heavy banking general awareness section, combine this topic with your banking awareness notes, since institute-related questions often sit in the same block as headquarters and scheme questions.

One-Liners for Quick Revision

Framework and Firsts

• Institution of National Importance → special status given by the Constitution or an Act of Parliament → brings autonomy, degree-granting power and direct central funding.
• Total INIs in India → 173 as of June 2026 → includes 23 IITs, 22 IIMs, 20 AIIMS, 31 NITs, 25 IIITs, 7 IISERs, 7 NIPERs, 5 NIDs, 3 SPAs, 2 NIFTEMs, 10 central universities, 4 medical research institutes and 14 other specialised institutes.
• Institutes of Technology Act → 1961 → governs all IITs and declared them Institutions of National Importance.
• National Institutes of Technology, Science Education and Research Act → 2007 → covers NITs, IISERs and IIEST Shibpur.
• All India Institute of Medical Sciences Act → 1956 → governs every AIIMS.
• Indian Institutes of Management Act → 2017 → allowed IIMs to award MBA degrees instead of post graduate diplomas.
• First IIT → IIT Kharagpur, 1951 → West Bengal, set up on the Hijli Detention Camp site.
• First IIM → IIM Calcutta, 1961 → set up with MIT Sloan collaboration, weeks before IIM Ahmedabad.
• First AIIMS → AIIMS New Delhi, 1956 → created on the initiative of Rajkumari Amrit Kaur with New Zealand aid under the Colombo Plan.
• First NIT or REC → NIT Warangal, 1959 → foundation stone laid by Jawaharlal Nehru on 10 October 1959.
• Year RECs became NITs → 2002 → INI status followed through the NIT Act of 2007.
• Scheme behind AIIMS expansion → Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana → the first six new AIIMS became operational in 2012.
• Entrance exams → JEE Advanced for IITs, JEE Main for NITs, CAT for IIMs, NEET UG for AIIMS MBBS → GATE for M.Tech, IIT JAM for M.Sc and INI CET for AIIMS postgraduate courses.

All 23 IITs

• IIT Kharagpur → Kharagpur, West Bengal, 1951 → the first IIT and the largest IIT campus by area.
• IIT Bombay → Mumbai, Maharashtra, 1958 → second IIT, set up at Powai with UNESCO and Soviet assistance.
• IIT Madras → Chennai, Tamil Nadu, 1959 → third IIT, West German collaboration, repeatedly ranked first in NIRF engineering.
• IIT Kanpur → Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, 1959 → Kanpur Indo-American Programme and the first computer science education in India.
• IIT Delhi → New Delhi, 1961 → founded as the College of Engineering and renamed IIT Delhi in 1963.
• IIT Guwahati → Guwahati, Assam, 1994 → sixth IIT and the first in the North East, on the north bank of the Brahmaputra.
• IIT Roorkee → Roorkee, Uttarakhand, founded 1847 → oldest technical institution in Asia and the seventh IIT from 2001.
• IIT (BHU) Varanasi → Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, 1919 → former Banaras Engineering College, upgraded to IIT in 2012.
• IIT (ISM) Dhanbad → Dhanbad, Jharkhand, 1926 → founded as the Indian School of Mines and made an IIT in 2016, known for mining and petroleum engineering.
• IIT Bhubaneswar → Bhubaneswar (Argul), Odisha, 2008 → part of the batch of eight IITs announced in 2008.
• IIT Gandhinagar → Gandhinagar (Palaj), Gujarat, 2008 → on the banks of the Sabarmati.
• IIT Hyderabad → Kandi in Sangareddy near Hyderabad, Telangana, 2008 → developed with Japanese collaboration.
• IIT Jodhpur → Jodhpur, Rajasthan, 2008 → known for solar energy and desert technology research.
• IIT Patna → Bihta near Patna, Bihar, 2008 → Patna also has an NIT and an AIIMS.
• IIT Ropar → Rupnagar, Punjab, 2008 → on the Sutlej near the Indus Valley site of Ropar.
• IIT Indore → Simrol near Indore, Madhya Pradesh, 2009 → Indore is the only city with both an IIT and an IIM.
• IIT Mandi → Kamand, Mandi, Himachal Pradesh, 2009 → hill campus focused on Himalayan studies and hydropower.
• IIT Palakkad → Palakkad, Kerala, 2015 → Kerala's only IIT, mentored by IIT Madras.
• IIT Tirupati → Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, 2015 → the state's only IIT, mentored by IIT Madras.
• IIT Bhilai → Bhilai, Chhattisgarh, 2016 → located in the steel city of Chhattisgarh.
• IIT Goa → Farmagudi in Ponda, Goa, 2016 → began from a temporary campus with IIT Bombay mentoring.
• IIT Jammu → Jagti in Nagrota near Jammu, 2016 → Jammu also has an IIM and an AIIMS.
• IIT Dharwad → Dharwad, Karnataka, 2016 → the state's only IIT, mentored by IIT Bombay.

All 22 IIMs

• IIM Calcutta → Joka, Kolkata, West Bengal, 1961 → the first IIM, often called the Harvard of the East.
• IIM Ahmedabad → Ahmedabad, Gujarat, 1961 → Harvard Business School collaboration, Vikram Sarabhai's initiative, campus designed by Louis Kahn.
• IIM Bangalore → Bengaluru, Karnataka, 1973 → the third IIM, created to serve the public sector.
• IIM Mumbai → Mumbai, Maharashtra, founded 1963 as NITIE → renamed IIM Mumbai in 2023, the only IIM created by converting an existing institute.
• IIM Lucknow → Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, 1984 → the fourth IIM and the first to run a second campus, at Noida.
• IIM Kozhikode → Kozhikode, Kerala, 1996 → hilltop campus known as the IIM in the hills.
• IIM Indore → Indore, Madhya Pradesh, 1996 → first to start the five year Integrated Programme in Management.
• IIM Shillong → Shillong, Meghalaya, 2007 → officially the Rajiv Gandhi IIM and the only IIM named after a person.
• IIM Rohtak → Rohtak, Haryana, 2010 → the state's only IIM, also offers a five year integrated programme.
• IIM Ranchi → Ranchi, Jharkhand, 2010 → the state's only IIM.
• IIM Raipur → Raipur, Chhattisgarh, 2010 → Raipur also has an NIT and an AIIMS.
• IIM Tiruchirappalli → Trichy, Tamil Nadu, 2011 → the city also hosts NIT Tiruchirappalli.
• IIM Kashipur → Kashipur, Uttarakhand, 2011 → located in the Kumaon plains.
• IIM Udaipur → Udaipur, Rajasthan, 2011 → known for its one year global supply chain management programme.
• IIM Nagpur → MIHAN, Nagpur, Maharashtra, 2015 → Maharashtra is the only state with two IIMs.
• IIM Visakhapatnam → Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, 2015 → mentored initially by IIM Bangalore.
• IIM Bodh Gaya → Bodh Gaya, Bihar, 2015 → mentored by IIM Calcutta and located at a Buddhist heritage town.
• IIM Amritsar → Amritsar, Punjab, 2015 → mentored by IIM Kozhikode.
• IIM Sambalpur → Sambalpur, Odisha, 2015 → mentored by IIM Indore.
• IIM Sirmaur → Paonta Sahib in Sirmaur district, Himachal Pradesh, 2015 → named after the district, not the town.
• IIM Jammu → Jagti, Jammu, 2016 → the 21st IIM and the only IIM in a union territory, with an off-campus centre at Srinagar.
• IIM Guwahati → Kamrup district, Guwahati, Assam, 2026 → the 22nd and newest IIM, inaugurated on 14 February 2026 with about Rs 555 crore and IIM Ahmedabad mentoring.

All 20 Operational AIIMS

• AIIMS New Delhi → Ansari Nagar, Delhi, 1956 → the first AIIMS and the top ranked medical institute in NIRF.
• AIIMS Bhopal → Saket Nagar, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, 2012 → part of the first PMSSY batch of six.
• AIIMS Bhubaneswar → Bhubaneswar, Odisha, 2012 → PMSSY batch of 2012 and among the largest new AIIMS by MBBS intake.
• AIIMS Jodhpur → Basni, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, 2012 → Jodhpur also has an IIT.
• AIIMS Patna → Phulwari Sharif, Patna, Bihar, 2012 → Patna also has an IIT and an NIT.
• AIIMS Raipur → Tatibandh, Raipur, Chhattisgarh, 2012 → Raipur also has an NIT and an IIM.
• AIIMS Rishikesh → Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, 2012 → major referral centre for the Garhwal Himalaya.
• AIIMS Kalyani → Kalyani in Nadia district, West Bengal, 2018 → the state's only AIIMS.
• AIIMS Mangalagiri → Mangalagiri in Guntur district, Andhra Pradesh, 2018 → located in the Amaravati capital region.
• AIIMS Nagpur → Mihan, Nagpur, Maharashtra, 2018 → Nagpur also has VNIT, IIM Nagpur and IIIT Nagpur.
• AIIMS Raebareli → Munshiganj, Raebareli, Uttar Pradesh, 2018 → one of the two AIIMS in Uttar Pradesh.
• AIIMS Bathinda → Jodhpur Romana, Bathinda, Punjab, 2019 → the state's only AIIMS.
• AIIMS Bibinagar → Bibinagar in Yadadri Bhuvanagiri district, Telangana, 2019 → located near Hyderabad.
• AIIMS Deoghar → Deoghar, Jharkhand, 2019 → at the temple town known for Baidyanath Dham.
• AIIMS Gorakhpur → Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, 2019 → the second AIIMS of the state, important for encephalitis research.
• AIIMS Bilaspur → Kothipura, Bilaspur, Himachal Pradesh, 2020 → this Bilaspur is in Himachal Pradesh, not Chhattisgarh.
• AIIMS Guwahati → Changsari, Guwahati, Assam, 2020 → the first AIIMS in the North East.
• AIIMS Rajkot → Khandheri, Rajkot, Gujarat, 2020 → the state's only AIIMS.
• AIIMS Vijaypur → Vijaypur in Samba district near Jammu, 2020 → popularly called AIIMS Jammu.
• AIIMS Madurai → Thoppur, Madurai, Tamil Nadu, 2021 → the most recent AIIMS to start functioning, currently on a temporary campus.
• Upcoming AIIMS → Darbhanga in Bihar, Awantipora in Jammu and Kashmir, Rewari or Majra in Haryana, Manipur, Karnataka and Kozhikode in Kerala → approved or announced but not yet fully operational.

All 31 NITs

• NIT Patna → Patna, Bihar, lineage from 1886 → the oldest lineage among NITs, converted to an NIT in 2004.
• NIT Raipur → Raipur, Chhattisgarh, 1956 → former Government College of Engineering, became an NIT in 2005 and has one of the largest intakes.
• NIT Warangal → Hanamkonda, Warangal, Telangana, 1959 → the first REC in India, foundation stone by Nehru on 10 October 1959.
• NIT Srinagar → Hazratbal, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, 1960 → located on the banks of Dal Lake.
• NIT Durgapur → Durgapur, West Bengal, 1960 → the state's only NIT, in the steel belt.
• NIT Jamshedpur → Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, 1960 → located in India's first planned industrial city.
• NIT Karnataka → Surathkal near Mangaluru, Karnataka, 1960 → former Karnataka REC, popularly called NIT Surathkal, on the Arabian Sea coast.
• MANIT Bhopal → Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, 1960 → Maulana Azad NIT, named after India's first Education Minister.
• VNIT Nagpur → Nagpur, Maharashtra, 1960 → Visvesvaraya NIT, named after Sir M. Visvesvaraya.
• NIT Rourkela → Rourkela, Odisha, 1961 → one of the highest ranked NITs, frequently but wrongly called the first NIT.
• NIT Calicut → Kozhikode, Kerala, 1961 → the institute keeps the older city name Calicut, and IIM Kozhikode is in the same city.
• MNNIT Allahabad → Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, 1961 → Motilal Nehru NIT, whose name still carries the old city name Allahabad.
• SVNIT Surat → Surat, Gujarat, 1961 → Sardar Vallabhbhai NIT, on the banks of the Tapi.
• MNIT Jaipur → Jaipur, Rajasthan, 1963 → Malaviya NIT, named after Madan Mohan Malaviya.
• NIT Kurukshetra → Kurukshetra, Haryana, 1963 → the state's only NIT.
• NIT Tiruchirappalli → Trichy, Tamil Nadu, 1964 → usually the highest ranked NIT in NIRF, sharing the city with IIM Trichy.
• NIT Agartala → Jirania, Agartala, Tripura, 1965 → the state's only NIT.
• NIT Silchar → Silchar, Assam, 1967 → the state's only NIT, in the Barak valley rather than Guwahati.
• NIT Hamirpur → Hamirpur, Himachal Pradesh, 1986 → the state's only NIT.
• Dr. B. R. Ambedkar NIT Jalandhar → Jalandhar, Punjab, 1987 → the last REC to be established before the 2010 expansion.
• NIT Arunachal Pradesh → Yupia in Papum Pare district, 2010 → located near Itanagar.
• NIT Delhi → Narela, New Delhi, 2010 → the only NIT in the national capital.
• NIT Goa → Cuncolim in South Goa, 2010 → started at Farmagudi before shifting to its permanent campus.
• NIT Manipur → Langol, Imphal, 2010 → the state's only NIT.
• NIT Meghalaya → Shillong, 2010 → shares the city with IIM Shillong.
• NIT Mizoram → Chaltlang, Aizawl, 2010 → the state's only institute among the four big families.
• NIT Nagaland → Chumoukedima near Dimapur, 2010 → not located at the capital Kohima.
• NIT Puducherry → Karaikal, Puducherry, 2010 → named after the union territory but located in its Karaikal district.
• NIT Sikkim → Ravangla in South Sikkim, 2010 → not located at the capital Gangtok.
• NIT Uttarakhand → Srinagar in Pauri Garhwal, 2010 → a different Srinagar from the one in Jammu and Kashmir.
• NIT Andhra Pradesh → Tadepalligudem in West Godavari, 2015 → the newest and 31st NIT, created after state bifurcation.

Related Families in One Line Each

• 25 IIITs → Gwalior, Allahabad, Jabalpur, Kancheepuram, Kurnool, Bhopal, Agartala, Bhagalpur, Dharwad, Guwahati, Kalyani, Kota, Kottayam, Lucknow, Manipur, Nagpur, Pune, Raichur, Ranchi, Sonepat, Sri City, Surat, Tiruchirappalli, Una and Vadodara → Madhya Pradesh has the most IIITs at three.
• 7 IISERs → Kolkata, Pune, Mohali, Bhopal, Thiruvananthapuram, Tirupati and Berhampur → Kolkata and Pune were the first two, started in 2006.
• 7 NIPERs → Mohali, Ahmedabad, Guwahati, Hajipur, Hyderabad, Kolkata and Raebareli → NIPER Mohali of 1998 is the first and lead campus.
• 5 NIDs → Ahmedabad, Andhra Pradesh, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh and Assam → NID Ahmedabad of 1961 is the first, inspired by the Eames India Report.
• 3 SPAs → New Delhi, Bhopal and Vijayawada → Schools of Planning and Architecture, INIs under the SPA Act, 2014.
• 2 NIFTEMs → Kundli in Haryana and Thanjavur in Tamil Nadu → food technology institutes under the NIFTEM Act, 2021.
• 18 NIFT campuses → New Delhi, Chennai, Gandhinagar, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Raebareli, Bhopal, Kannur, Shillong, Patna, Kangra, Bhubaneswar, Jodhpur, Srinagar, Panchkula and Daman → NIFT New Delhi of 1986 is the first, under the Ministry of Textiles.
• IISc Bengaluru → founded 1909 with support from Jamsetji Tata → India's leading science research institute but not an IIT.
• ICAR → headquarters at New Delhi → apex body for agricultural research, education and extension, supervising agricultural universities.
• NIMHANS → Bengaluru, Karnataka → India's premier mental health and neurosciences institute.
• PGIMER → Chandigarh → leading institute for postgraduate medical education and super speciality care.
• Indian Statistical Institute → Kolkata → founded by P. C. Mahalanobis, among the oldest statistics research institutes in the world.
• National Institute of Oceanography → Dona Paula, Panaji, Goa → India's main oceanography laboratory, with centres at Kochi, Mumbai and Visakhapatnam.
• TISS → Mumbai, Maharashtra → leading institute for social work, human resources and public policy, with campuses at Tuljapur, Guwahati and Hyderabad.
• NIPFP → New Delhi → think tank on taxation, public expenditure and fiscal policy.
• NLSIU → Bengaluru, 1987 → India's first national law university, followed by NALSAR Hyderabad, NLU Delhi and NLU Jodhpur.
• ASCI → Hyderabad, Telangana → premier training institute in public administration and governance.
• IIFM → Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh → specialises in forest management and sustainable development.
• CEE → Ahmedabad, Gujarat → works on environmental education, conservation awareness and sustainability.
• Constitutional INIs → Banaras Hindu University, Aligarh Muslim University and University of Delhi → declared through Entry 63 of the Union List, with Delhi added by the 32nd Amendment in 1973.

Revise this page once, then test yourself instead of rereading it. A timed attempt at the daily current affairs quiz will catch the newest additions such as IIM Guwahati, while the computer awareness quiz pairs well with the IIIT and technology institute facts covered above.

Candidates actively applying for technical and medical posts should keep their computer awareness notes updated alongside this list, because IITs, NITs and AIIMS release non-teaching vacancies throughout the year and their general awareness sections draw from exactly these institute facts.