Top 20 Engineering Colleges in India include seven IITs!

IITs dominate the list of top engineering colleges in India. In fact, if you see the top 20 engineering colleges, you will find as many as seven IITs out there.

Let’s have a look at the two of the major rankings for engineering colleges in India:

• In Outlook rankings for 2012, IIT Delhi emerged as the top engineering college in India. The Top 20 engineering colleges in India were:

1. IIT Delhi
2. IIT Kharagpur
3. IIT Bombay
4. IIT Kanpur
5. IIT Madras
6. IIT BHU
7. BITS Pilani
8. IIT Guwahati
9. DTU Delhi
10. NIT Tiruchirapalli
11. ISMU Dhanbad
12. University Departments, Anna University, Guindy
13. NIT Surathkal
14. IIIT Hyderabad
15. IIIT Ranchi
16. NIT Warangal
17. NSIT Delhi
18. PSG College of Technology,Coimbatore
19. NIT Rourkela
20. IIIT Allahabad

Note that the first six positions are hogged by IITs in the list. Overall, out of 20, seven best technology institutes are IITs.

• The Data Quest DQ-CMR Top T-School survey of 2012 aimed to highlight the Top Technical Schools across India. IITs remained ‘the most revered institutions of knowledge for all round academic excellence’ with IIT Madras emerging as the top engineering college in India in this survey. Other IITs in the list of Top 10 Technological Schools in India were IIT Kanpur, IIT Hyderabad, IIT Bombay, IIT BHU, IIT Delhi, IIT Kharagpur and IIT Guwahati rank-wise. Non-IITs included in the list were Netaji Subhash Instiute of Technology (NSIT), Delhi at #9 and Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information Communication Technology (ICT), Gandhinagar at #10.

You might notice that the older IITs figure prominently in these lists. It is believed that it is because of the kind of infrastructure and academic breadth older IITs offer that give them an edge over newer IITs. But it is believed that newer IITs will soon catch up too. After all, it took decades for the older IITs to build the academic excellence and reputation they enjoy now.