the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) in 2021. Department of Architecture, NIT, Hamirpur was ranked 9 among all Architecture colleges by the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) in 2018. Student life Hill'ffair Hill'ffair is a cultural event of the institute, organized at the national level, with the involvement of bands, singers, musicians, artist, poets and participants from all across the country. Two days and three nights of performance with over a wide genre of dance, music, drama. Cultural activities and various student clubs are a few options that act as a catalyst in developing technical, managerial, conceptual skills amongst students. NIT Hamirpur provides a number of such platforms in the forms of clubs to its students to select a club as per his/her likes and channelize their energies in translating their ideas into reality. The event is a three day long event which consists of a star night, where several artists such as NIMBUS NIMBUS is the annual technical festival of National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur, Himachal Pradesh, India. It is touted to be an amalgamation of ideas, expressions, innovations, prototypes, knowledge channels, taken to the most premier levels. In NIMBUS all the departmental teams compete with their best projects, demonstrations and Events. Students from himachal and outside himachal Pradesh come to participate in these events. There are two types of teams, core and departmental teams. The departmantal teams are: OJAS (Electrical Engg) MEDEXTROUS (Mechanical Engg) VIBHAV (Electronics & Comm) C HELIX (Civil Engg) Hermetica (Chemical Engg) Team .EXE (Computer Science and Engineering) Design O Crats (Architecture) Metamorph (Material science engg) Matcom(MnC Department) and the core teams are: Team Finance and Treasury Resurgence Pixonoids Public Relations Music Club Rhythmeecz Discipline Club Organisation Club Fine Art Club Team Technical Lalkaar National Institute of Technology Hamirpur is one of the premier technical institutes in Northern India. The Institute presently provides sports facilities for both outdoor and indoor activity. A standard size stadium with provision of pavilion has been provided to the student where the games like Cricket, Football, Basketball, Volleyball, Lawn Tennis martial art karate for self defense and Athletics are played. Student's Activity Center(SAC) is recently build with world class facilities to host various extra-curricular activities by the students. Notable alumni Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Mohit Kumar, Professor for "Computational Intelligence in Automation (apl)" at the University of Rostock, Germany and Key Researcher at Software Competence Center Hagenberg, Austria. Vijay Kumar Thakur,