[3] The National Institute of Technology, Delhi is one of ten NITs established during the 11th Five Year Plan by the Ministry of Education (MOE).

A Master of Technology programme in the discipline of Electronics and Communication Engineering with an initial intake of 15 students were introduced during the academic year 2013-14, followed by a PhD programme that started in January 2014 with an initial intake of seven research scholars.

A Master of Technology programme in the discipline of Power Electronics and Drives with an intake of 15 students was started during the academic session of 2017-18.

[6] A computer center was established in February 2014 and maintains and manages Wi-Fi facility through rack-mounted blade servers in the campus having high speed (single mode) fiber backbone, managed by Layer-3 Switches providing 600 Mbit/s (1:1) bandwidth.

Currently, the following six departments are functioning in the institute:- NIT Delhi currently offers only engineering programs in graduate, undergraduate, and doctorate level.

Undergraduate admission to the institute is through the Joint Entrance Examination (Main) organized by the MHRD's National Testing Agency.

Half of the seats are reserved under Home State category for Delhi and Chandigarh students.

Admissions to the Master of Technology Programs are made based on performance in the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering.

[14] The institute conducts theoretical and experimental research, including the areas of VLSI and embedded systems, power electronics and drives, advanced magnetohydrodynamics and mathematical modelling of fluid dynamics.