This year, four magazines have published their rankings for engineering colleges in
Please note that all rankings are subjective and subject to interpretation.
Here is the summary of all rankings by magazines for the past 3 years:
Year | Dataquest | Outlook | Livemint | |
2008 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 |
2007 | 18 | 10 | 8 | Not published |
2006 | 9 | 8 | 8 | Not published |
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a)
May 22, 2008 issue
Best engineering destinations
Shruti Maheshwari
May 22, 2008
TOP ENGINEERING COLLEGES
Excerpts:
The biggest gainer has been the
http://emagazine.digitaltoday.in/IndiaTodayEnglish/02062008/Home.aspx
Page 72-75
b) Dataquest Rankings
http://dqindia.ciol.com/content/top_stories/2008/108060901.asp




Excerpts from the report:
New Horizons
Within the placement parameter, IT BHU has improved upon its performance on the salary count. As compared to the maximum salary of Rs 9.14 lakh per annum offered by Microsoft in 2005-06, the institute got an offer of Rs 23 lakh from Schlumberger in 2006-07, a growth of 152%. The average salary of all companies also increased from Rs 2.87 lakh per annum in 2005-06 to Rs 3.74 lakh in 2006-07. On the other hand, the average salary of IT companies saw a marginal increase from Rs 2.73 lakh to Rs 2.91 lakh during the same period.


Also, on the placement front, the institute saw a significant rise in the number of students placed in IT/BPO companies as well as those placed across all types of companies. While there were 173 students placed in IT/BPO companies in 2005-06, there were 211 placed in 2006-07. On the other hand, as compared to 321 students placed across all type of companies in 2005-06, 387 were placed in 2006-07.
There has also been improvement in the number of companies visiting the IT BHU campus for placements. Compared to the 68 companies in 2005-06, 83 visited the campus in 2006-07. Specifically, with respect to IT/BPO companies, the number went up from 25 in 2005-06 to 32 in 2006-07.
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Additional Dataquest link:
The complete score card 2008 for all the participating 79 engineering colleges can be viewed at: http://dqindia.ciol.com/images08/Cover%20story%20table.pdf
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c) Livemint Rankings
http://www.livemint.com/2008/06/12001803/India8217s-Best-Colleges.html
Top 50 government engineering colleges
http://www.livemint.com/2008/06/12001803/22EAFCC9-0AE8-4D10-8EFA-6CB64D3FF467ArtVPF.pdf
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d) Outlook
http://www.outlookindia.com/full.asp?fodname=20080630&fname=ALead+Essay&sid=1
Top 35 Govt. Engineering Colleges
Rank | Name of Institute | City | IC | II | I | PP | PS | GT |
IC: Intellectual capital (600), II: Industry Interface (300), I: Infrastructure (650), PP: Placement Performance (400), PS: Pedagogic system (200). GT: Grand Total (2,150) | ||||||||
1 | IIT | Kharagpur | 497 | 218 | 566.8 | 306.9 | 180 | 1,768 |
2 | IIT | 359 | 165 | 573.8 | 291.4 | 183 | 1,572 | |
3 | IIT | 376 | 234 | 467.2 | 305.8 | 179 | 1,563 | |
4 | IIT | Mumbai | 373 | 102 | 531.5 | 280.3 | 182 | 1,469 |
5 | IIT | Chennai | 449 | 136 | 510.8 | 193.1 | 178 | 1,467 |
6 | IIT | Roorkee | 325 | 169 | 494 | 314.7 | 164 | 1466 |
7 | Chennai | 288 | 205 | 423 | 259 | 154 | 1,329 | |
8 | IT, BHU | 302 | 74 | 429.3 | 293 | 160 | 1,259 | |
9 | IIT | Guwahati | 258 | 85 | 411.1 | 304.7 | 170 | 1,230 |
10 | Dhanbad | 255 | 104 | 416.1 | 285.9 | 140 | 1,201 | |
11 | NIT | 270 | 77 | 405.8 | 265.5 | 160 | 1,179 | |
12 | NIT | Trichy | 258 | 54 | 399.6 | 299.9 | 160 | 1,172 |
13 | Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology | 249 | 80 | 416.2 | 253 | 164 | 1,163 | |
14 | NIT | Surathkal | 251 | 71 | 414 | 262.1 | 155 | 1,153 |
15 | 228 | 95 | 412.3 | 244.1 | 160 | 1,139 | ||
16 | 226 | 84 | 388.1 | 293.6 | 142 | 1,134 | ||
17 | IIIT | 239 | 150 | 433.2 | 286.7 | 13 | 1,122 | |
18 | Netaji Subhash Inst. of Technology | 207 | 69 | 387.4 | 272.6 | 150 | 1,086 | |
19 | MNIT | Jaipur | 250 | 66 | 369.1 | 263.6 | 130 | 1,079 |
20 | Pune | 224 | 79 | 381.2 | 247.8 | 140 | 1,072 | |
21 | NIT | 220 | 70 | 391 | 240 | 150 | 1,071 | |
22 | Autonomous | 250 | 79 | 372.9 | 248.9 | 120 | 1,070 | |
23 | NIT | 233 | 56 | 404.9 | 233.4 | 120 | 1,048 | |
24 | Harcourt Butler Technological Institute | 205 | 77 | 344.2 | 253.6 | 160 | 1,040 | |
25 | Coimbatore Institute of Technology | 217 | 75 | 356.4 | 244.3 | 140 | 1,032 | |
26 | IIIT | 183 | 90 | 366 | 253.8 | 120 | 1,012 | |
27 | JNTI | 191 | 61 | 347.3 | 260.5 | 120 | 980 | |
28 | NIT | Hamirpur | 199 | 57 | 361.4 | 235.1 | 124 | 976 |
29 | Sir M. Visvesvaraya Inst. of Technology | 193 | 54 | 334.1 | 234.6 | 120 | 936 | |
30 | Shri G.S. Institute of Technology & Science | 202 | 67 | 333.3 | 178.4 | 140 | 921 | |
31 | University | 191 | 59 | 340.8 | 215.5 | 110 | 916 | |
32 | 166 | 60 | 371.2 | 184.6 | 133 | 915 | ||
33 | NIT | Silchar | 186 | 54 | 319.3 | 211.1 | 80 | 851 |
34 | CUSAT | 166 | 36 | 309.9 | 200.5 | 100 | 813 | |
35 | 133 | 50 | 345.8 | 178.7 | 80 | 787 | ||
Some government engineering colleges which were ranked in the Top 35 in 2007 did not respond to the Outlook-Synovate survey this year. These include Faculty of Engineering & Technology, Jadavpur University, Calcutta; Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpur, Howrah; MANIT, Bhopal; VNIT, Nagpur; SVNIT, Surat; NIT Kurukshetra; NIT Kozhikode; Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai University; College of Engineering, Thiruvananthapuram; and NIT, Jamshedpur |
