National Rail and Transportation Institute


The National Rail and Transportation Institute is India's first and only transportation university located in Vadodara, Gujarat, India. This institute is presently located in the lush-green 55-acre campus of Ministry of Railways's apex training institution, National Academy of Indian Railways as a makeshift arrangement. It is slated to shift to its permanent campus in Waghodiya taluka of Vadodara in the near future, for which land acquisition is in progress at present.
Currently, it is running two state-of-the-art undergraduate programmes -
1. Bachelor of Business Administration in Transportation Management
2. Bachelor of Science in Transportation Technology
At present, it accounts for enrollment of around 200 students from 20 states of India, across two academic years: 2018-2021 and 2019-2022. Once the project is fully executed, it will have close to 3000 full-time residential students on its rolls, across five schools - Management & Leadership; Engineering & Applied Science; Transport Planning & Design; Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences and Transport Policy & Law.

Introduction

The National Rail and Transportation Institute, a vision of the Hon'ble Prime Minister of India Shri Narendra Modi, is India's first university exclusively focussed on transport-related education, multidisciplinary research and training. A Deemed to be University under the de Novo] starting of something new] category, NRTI is specifically established to create a resource pool of best-in-class professionals for the railway and transportation sector.
A unique feature of programmes at NRTI is the using "live laboratories”, the facilities and infrastructure of Indian Railways and associated establishments. The University has forged academic partnerships with ivy league and top-ranked global universities including Cornell University, United States; University of California in Berkeley, United States; Russia University of Transport in Moscow, Russia; University of Birmingham, UK. and St. Petersburg State Transport University.

Board of Management

The curriculum for each NRTI programme comprises three distinctive learning tracks:
1. DOMAIN KNOWLEDGE
for students to acquire depth in their core field of study.
2. MULTIDISCIPLINARY LEARNING
for students to learn about and understand diverse fields and areas of inquiry, broadening their perspective.
3. SELF-DISCOVERY AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
for students to acquire a learning mindset, develop professional 21st-century skills, and become values-driven citizens of the country.
Both the undergraduate courses, BBA in Transportation Management and BSc in Transportation Technology, run in trimester mode with nine trimesters in total, having a duration of three years and are worth 140 credits.
There are two compulsory internships on offer for practical exposure, one with Indian Railways at the end of first year, and the other one with industry, at the end of sophomore year. In addition, all the undergraduate students compulsorily have to submit a thesis/project at the end of their degree. Interestingly, syllabus for first year for both the degrees is the same, as it is foundational in nature.
An indicative list of courses:
Foundation - Dynamics of Transportation Ecosystems, Critical Thinking and Writing, Essentials of Business and Technology, Design Thinking, Systems Thinking & Application, Fundamentals of Economics, Environmental Sciences and Sustainability, Ethics, Data Analytics and Representation, Foundations of Leadership and Sociological Contexts of Transportation
Management - Principles of Accounting and Finance, Principles of Marketing, Business Communication, Managerial Economics, Business Analytics Models, Supply Chain Planning and Control, Supply Chain Decision Modelling, Operations Management Strategy, Purchase and Materials Management, Special Topics in Transportation Management
Technology - Principles of Information Systems, Transportation Technologies of the 21st Century, Research Design, Mathematical Modelling, Transportation Models and Quantitative Methods, Dynamic Programming and Decision Processes, Applied Transportation Technology, Special Topics in Transportation Technology

Admissions, Eligibility and Syllabus

Admissions to this institution are only offered via a national-level National Rail and Transportation Institute - Admission Aptitude Test, conducted in the month of June every year.
Eligibility and Process
The eligibility to apply for the academic programmes at NRTI is as follows:
BBA in Transportation Management All Streams
BSc in Transportation Technology Science Stream
Applicants must have successfully completed their 10 + 2 Board examination with at least 55% marks and be below the age of 25 years as on August 1 of the said year of admission.
NRTI follows Government Regulations with respect to reservations, which is as follows:
Supernumerary seats will also be considered for PwD, Kashmiri Migrants and Ex-Servicemen, as per Government Regulations.
The Merit list Rank for respective categories are based on Entrance Test scores and are published on the NRTI website post result declaration. Provisionally selected students, along with high ranked waitlisted candidates, are called for counselling at the NRTI campus, Vadodara. If there are any vacant seats after the 1st round of counselling, additional waitlisted students are called in the order of merit for the 2nd round of counselling.
Syllabus and Marking
Question Types:
Marking:
+1 for every correct answer
-0.33 for every incorrect answer
Note: For detailed information on syllabus and fees, one may refer

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