[2][3] It was established in 1966 by the Government of India in collaboration with UNDP – UNESCO to provide qualified engineers and specialists for running foundry and forge industries.

It is a National Institute as well as Deemed to be University and is Centrally Funded by Ministry of Education (MoE), Government of India.

[6] In view to push forward the knowledge boundary, four M.Tech programs were introduced in the core areas of foundry and forge technology.

The campus is around 6.4 km (4.0 mi) from Birsa Munda Airport making it easily accessible via rail as well as airways.

Auditorium is designed and used for seminars, cultural festivals, alumni-meet and various events with extreme maximum seating capacity.

These include software like DEFORM, PROCAST, UNIGRAPHICS, CATIA, AUTODESK Inventor Professional (Mechanical and Electrical), MATLAB and also servers, desktops, workstations and terminals.

CAD Center/Computer Center and the E-library provide students with internet access with fully Wi-Fi enabled campus and hostel rooms also with LAN/WAN support.

NIAMT has the following six departments: The institute conducts educational programmes leading to the award of Advanced Diploma Course Certificates (ADC), Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.

The institute has well equipped laboratories and workshop for carrying out practical study work by the students and for extending testing facilities pertaining to foundry, forge, metallurgical analysis and materials characterization to the outside organizations on payment basis.

[10] The institute also houses workshop buildings which include carpentry, foundry and forge shops as well as graphics rooms and other laboratories NIAMT have one of the best libraries in the technical field.

The four-storeyed library's rich collection includes over 31000 books, 3560 bound volumes and 215 current periodicals in Manufacturing, Metallurgy, Materials Science and allied areas.

In addition, it has CD-ROMs on various aspects of engineering, up-to-date standards both Indian and foreign, technical films, tapes, slides, microfilms, microfiches etc.

The undergraduate students for Bachelor's degree at the institute are selected through the competitive exam, completely based on JEE-Mains conducted Joint Entrance Examination by NTA.

Jinks is the annual youth cultural fest organized by the Students' Gymkhana committee of NIAMT, held in last of February every year.

In Jinks-Pranav 2023, the main attraction was The Strangers band, DJ Himani Singh and Mohammed Irfan (singer).

[16] Umeed is a social welfare program, formed by NIAMT students community that aims to help the poor and unfortunate survive the harsh winter by donating them clothes.

Started in 2015 with the motto "For it is in giving that we receive" by the students of NIAMT, the program helped more than five hundred people of Ranchi in its first edition.

The cloth collection drive will be starts from mid October and will extend through the month till the first week of November.

For the birth anniversary of Iron Man of India, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel this festival celebrated in the institute as “Rashtriya Ekta Diwas”- “National Unity Day”.

Participated in Formula SAE Italy 2013 event also exemplary performance of many Asian, European racing competition.