July 19, 2014
So which are the best NITs of India? According to the Top Engineering Colleges of India list published by Outlook as a result of its “India’s Top Professional Colleges 2014†survey NITs of Tiruchirapalli, Surathkal, Warangal, Rourkela, and Hamirpur are the top 5 NITs of India,.
IITs and BITS Pilani grabbed the top 8 ranks of the list with IIT Delhi at the top. It was followed by IIT Bombay– IIT Kharagpur– IIT Madras- IIT Kanpur– IIT BHU- BITS Pilani – IIT Guwahati – in that order.
NIT Trichy was ranked #9 in the overall list but it was right at the top of the other NITs if considered only the NITs. National Institute of Technology of Tiruchirapalli was also rated a bit better than IIT Bombay in the area of ‘academic excellence’ and even did better than IIT Madras on the measure of ‘personality development’. Nevertheless, it was left behind the IITs when it came to infrastructure and placements.
NIT Surathkal was ranked #10 followed by NIT Warangal at #11. NIT Rourkela in Odisha was ranked 14th whereas NIT Hamirpur was ranked at #20.
IIITs, which made it into Top 20 Engineering Colleges included IIIT Hyderabad ranked at #13 followed by IIIT Allahabad.
Other engineering colleges in Top 20 include NSIT (Netaji Subhash Institute of Technology), New Delhi ranked at #12. The PSG College of Technology at Coimbatore ranked at #15 followed by the JNTUH College of Engineering at Hyderabad ranked at #16. Also, the College of Engineering in Pune was ranked at #18, and Manipal Institute of Technology was ranked at #19.
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