About us

The National Institute of Technology (NIT) Meghalaya is one among the thirty NITs in India estab- lished under the NIT Act 2007 (Amended 2012) of the Parliament of India as Institutes of National Importance with full funding support from the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Govern- ment of India. The nearest railway station is Guwahati. From the railway station, one can travel by bus or shared taxi to Shillong. It takes about 3 hours to reach Shillong. After reaching Shillong, one can hire local taxi to reach the campus at Bijni Complex, Laitumkhrah.

The Department of Physics, NIT Meghalaya was established in 2010. The department has actively imparted education to the students of B. Tech 1st years in theoretical aspects of various areas along with related experiments to provide greater understanding of the subjects that would help to became better engineers. The PhD programme in the Department is successfully running in the domain of Condensed Matter Physics, Applied Optics, Nuclear and Particle Physics. The Department has also started M. Sc. programme from 2015-2016 session with special emphasis on the applied aspects of Physics.