The Nagoya Institute of Technology , abbreviated to Nitech, is a public educational institution of science and technology located in Nagoya, Japan. Nitech was founded in 1905 as Nagoya Higher Technical School, then renamed Nagoya College of Technology in 1944, and then merged under the new educational system with the Aichi Prefectural College of Technology to be refounded as Nagoya Institute of Technology in 1949. In 2004 it was refounded as National University Corporation Nagoya Institute of Technology.