REC was converted to National Institute of Technology (NIT) Kurukshetra as per the directive of the Indian Government under the Institute of National Importance (INI) accreditation. NIT Kurukshetra is a premier government institute which was established in 1963 with the vision of providing the best quality of education in the area of engineering, science, research and philosophy. Blessed with 300 acre sub-urban campus and state-of-the-art facilities, NIT Kurukshetra is supposedly said to be an Engineering Aspirant's Dream College.