Infrastructure Facilities
The Institute has a well equipped library, a computer centre, lecture hall complexes, various laboratories in different departments, workshops, and hostels for accommodating about 6000 students, health care centre, and adequate facilities for sports, games and co-curricular activities. The institute has a guest house with A/C and non A/C rooms, for the guests of the institute including alumni and parents of the students. To provide service to the residents, the campus also accommodates a branch of State Bank of India, Canara Bank, Post Office, Canteens & Co-operative Store.
Campus Networking Centre
The NITC Campus Networking Centre(CNC) is the central facility providing internet, intranet, IP Phone, Email, hardware and software support to the entire staffs and students community of NITC Campus. CNC manages the internet connectivity(both wired and wireless). For the network services, center has the high end computational servers on which accounts are given to students, staff and faculty of the departments. National Institute of Technology Calicut has an extensive fiber optic network over the whole campus. The present campus network basically comprises of more than 30 KMs of Fiber Optic cable backbone with 80+ routed internal networks managed by Unified Threat Management System. Presently the network is served by 12 Gbps (1Gbps internet leased line from NKN,1Gbps internet leased line from BSNL and 10 Gbps internet leased lines from BSNL). Hardware maintenance unit of CNC provides quality service support to minimize system downtime in the entire campus. The services include installation, troubleshooting and maintenance of computer and peripheral devices, operating system and software installation.
Library Facilities
The Central Library of NIT Calicut, established in 1961, is a premier technical library in South India, serving over 8,000 users. It houses a vast collection of over one lakh books and offers fully automated services via KOHA. Users can access the catalog online through KOHA OPAC, integrated with the campus-wide intranet for seamless operations. The library provides access to top international and Indian journals through the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) initiative. Its digital library, NALANDA, offers online access to 13,500+ journals and 11,500 ebooks across engineering and science disciplines.
Major online resources available include journals, magazines, conference records, and standards from renowned publishers such as AAAS-Science, ACM, ACS, AIAA, AIP, American Mathematical Society, APS, American Society for Microbiology, Annual Reviews, ASCE, ASME, Bentham Science, BMJ Journals, Cambridge University Press, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Sciencedirect, Emerald Publishing, ICE Publishing, IEEE, IndianJournals.com, IOP Science, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (Wolters Kluwer), OUP, Project MUSE, Sage, SPIE Digital Library, Springer, T&F, Thieme Medical Publishers, Wiley, RSC, and SIAM Journals.Additionally provides e-copy of various newspapers and magazines through Edzter platform.
In addition to its extensive journal, the library supports academic work with a range of writing tools, including Overleaf, QuillBot, Writefull, and Researcher.life, iThenticate and provides access to the E4TP course. The NITC community can also utilize online databases such as CMIE, Scopus, EPWRF, SciFinder, and Web of Science. Furthermore, the library offers a rich collection of e-books 5 from leading publishers like De Gruyter, Elsevier, IOP Publishing, Pearson, Springer, Taylor & Francis, Wiley, World Scientific, Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, PHI Learning, and McGraw-Hill Education. To further aid research and academic integrity, the library subscribes to BIS and ASTM standards and provides access to the plagiarism detection tool, Turnitin. The digital library is continuously expanding by collecting and indexing students' project reports and theses via the ETD (Electronic Theses and Dissertations) platform powered by D Space.
Central Computer Centre
Central Computer Centre (CCC) is the central facility in NIT Calicut which caters for the computing requirements of the whole community of this institution. The center has state of the art infrastructure with four fully operational terminal rooms spanning over three floors of the building. Institute Management System (IMS) of the institute also operates from the Centre building. The Centre has 250+ client machines and has a capacity to include 400+ machines. Client systems are of both desktop and workstation genre. Desktops contain DELL OPTIPLEX 7010, DELL Precision T3610, HP 406 Micro tower and HP Prodesk series which are of adequate 4 performance and workstations contain Fujitsu Celsius W570 power series machines which are capable of more than handling high-end production and design level applications. CCC hosts some of the high-end servers and a parallel processing cluster machine. Servers include DELL PowerEdge T620 which has a dual Hexa-core processor, Lenovo Think System SR650 with 32GB Nvidia V100 card andHPProLiantRackserver which has a dual quad-core processor. Astateofthe art HPC system with 25 Tera FLOPS computing power meet the research needs of the Institute. The facility can be accessed by all the departments anywhere in the campus through networking. Computers in the CCC are loaded with Windows and Linux operating systems for convenience and centralized authentication is provided. Students are mandated to follow strict classroom discipline inside the Centre. Centre is fully air-conditioned and has UPS power backup for the whole setup. The Centre works 16 hours aday (8 am – 12 midnight), 7 days a week, except national holidays unless instructed otherwise.
Banking and Postal Facility
A fully computerized branch of the State Bank of India (SBI) with networked ATMs and Canara Bank, both with internet core banking facilities, are available on campus. The banks also extend financial support in the form of loans to meet the educational expenses of students.
A Post and Telegraph Office with value added facilities like Speed Post, India Telephone Cards (ITC) etc. functions within the campus.
Mobile Communication Services
Service providers like BSNL, Airtel, Idea, Jio etc. provide mobile phone coverage in the campus.
Engineering Unit
The construction, renovation and maintenance of buildings, compound wall, laying of roads, water supply, allotment of residence, campus electricity distribution and maintenance etc. are carried out by the Engineering Unit.
Health Centre
The Health Centre at NIT Calicut is dedicated to providing comprehensive medical care and promoting the well-being of all students, faculty, and staff. Equipped with modern healthcare facilities, the center offers a wide range of services, including general consultation, emergency care for the Students and Staff of the Institute.The Health Centre is staffed with experienced doctors, nurses, and healthcare professionals who are available to assist with any medical needs. Additionally, the Health Centre ensures a preventive approach to health through regular camps, health awareness programs. With its commitment to a healthy campus environment, the Health Centre plays a pivotal role in supporting the academic and personal growth of students, ensuring they remain physically and mentally fit throughout their academic journey.