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AN OVERALL PICTURE OF ENGINEERING
INSTITUTIONS IN INDIA
Soon after the down of independence, India launched a massive programme
of development. Many large projects were undertaken to meet the needs for
irrigation, power, and flood control and to establish a basic industrial base for
steel, machine tools, fertilizers, transportation, drugs and pharmaceuticals,
petrochemicals, power equipment etc. The country hardly had any industrial base
or the infrastructure for the task of national building. A policy of planned
development adopted. However, one of the major problems faced by the country
during the early year of planning was the acute shortage of trained technical
manpower. To meet the challenges, an ambitious programme of expansion of
engineering education was undertaken to overcome the situation.
India completed more than six decades after independence; during these
years, the country has had eleven five year plans of development. The technology
capacity of the nation, a key determinant of the pace, quality and quantum of
economic and social growth has increased manifold. This has been possible on
account of the corresponding quantitative and qualitative expansion of technical
education1.
Engineering education is a basic and essential input for national
development and strengthening of the industry, economy and ultimately improving
the quality of life of the people. It has made a significant contribution to India’s
economic development. The programmes which have advanced the country and
diversified and augmented production since independence are largely because of
the manpower produced by engineering institutions of the country.
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In India, initially engineering education was based on the British model and
emphasized the importance of engineering professional practice. After
independence it has been constantly influenced by American education system in
its contents2. The 20
th century witnessed tremendous progress and incredible
developments took place in the field of engineering education. Technical
education system is to produce trained manpower in adequate number for the
economic and technological development of the country and to run its industries.
It plays an important role for the economic and industrial growth, national
developments and international competitiveness. It imparts technical knowledge,
study, and research and facilitates technological transfer.
In India engineering education at degree level is provided basically by five
categories of institutions3:
• Institute of National importance (IITs)
• Technical Universities
• Regional engineering collages/National Institute of Technology(NITs)
• Engineering Department/ collages in traditional Universities
• State level government/private engineering collages
Technical education in India contributes a major share to the over all
education system and play a vital role in the social and economic development of
our nation. In India, Technical education is imparted at various levels such as:
craftsmanship, diploma, degree, post graduate and research in specified fields to
various aspects of technological development and economic progress.
The beginning of formal technical education in India can be dated back to the
mid 19th
century. The major policy initiatives in the pre- independence period
includes appointment of the Indian Universities commission in 1902, issue the
Indian Education policy resolution in 1904 and Governor General’s policy
statement of 1913 stressing the importance of technical education. The
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establishment of IISc., Bangalore, Institute of Sugar, Textile and Leather
Technology in Kanpur, NCE in Bengal in 1905 and industrial schools in several
provinces and significant development includes:
• Constitution of technical education committee of the central advisory board of
Education(CABA) in 1943
• Preparation of sergeant report of 1944
• Formation of All India council for Technical education (AICTE) in 1945 by
the Government of India.
All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE):
The All India Council Technical Education (AICTE) was setup in
November, 1945 as an apex organization, charged with the responsibility or
planning and coordinated the development of technical education in India. An to
insure the same as stipulated in the national policy of education(1986), AICTE be
vested with statutory authority for planning , formulation and maintenance of
norms and standards, quality assurance through accreditation, funding in priority
areas, monitoring and evaluation, maintaining parity of certification and awards
and ensuring coordinated and integrated development and management of
technical education in country.4
The Government of India (Ministry of HRD) also constituted a national
working group to look into the role of AICTE in the context of proliferation of
technical institutions, maintenance of standards and other related matters. The
working group recommended that AICTE be vested with necessary statutory
authority for making it more effective which would consequently require
restricting and strengthening with necessary infrastructure and operating
mechanisms.
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The AICTE is responsible for the accreditation of all engineering
institutions and it monitors the growth of technical education in relation to planed
quantitative growth and proper maintenance of norms and standards. The National
Board of Accreditation of AICTE aim to bring standards of some of the
programmes offered in technical institutions on par with programmes offered in
the institutions in the USA and Europe by introducing a quality auditing system
and establishing a datum for measuring the quality and excellence in engineering
education. The accreditation exercise is very rigorous has several inputs such as
quality of teaching, level of research, faculty expertise evaluation of teachers and
standard of infrastructure and resources available at the institutions. There are
seven statutory regional committees across the country for assisting the council in
planning and development of technical education, monitoring and periodic
evaluation of approved institutions of the region.5, 6
Development of Engineering Education in India:
The history of technical education in India can be traced to epic period
(1000BC) and Vedic period (prior to 500 BC) when the numerous technical skills
such as carpeting, smithy, foundry and weaving were part of education. Later
during medieval India the vocational skill reached great heights as it is evident
from the findings of the archaeological remains of the period 7, 8
. The high quality
of article such as cotton and silk fabrics, embroidery painted and enameled wares,
gold & silver jewelry, swords and knives potters metal utensils could not have
been achieved and sustained for such a long period without a dependable system
foe technical education. Thus, the development of engineering education in India
may be divided into two major group- Pre independence and Post independence.
Status of Engineering Education Pre-Independence:
The first move in India to train surveyors in a formal manner was made by
Michael Topping in May 1774 at the Fort George in Madras with eight students.
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This school was later to grow into the engineering college, Guindy. The school
was training only English boys and the government was at first definitely against
the teaching surveying of any kind to young native Indians because of the military
and political implications of such survey work. As a precaution, against the
reliable maps falling into the hand of the French, the Dutch and other rival power
operating in India at that time, the court of directors of the East India Company
insisted on the secrecy of maps and restricted the art and science of surveying of
English boys.9, 10 and 11
In 1817, the Hindu College was founded by a spontaneous impulse of some
Indians, in which the medium of instructions was English and in 1855, this college
was incorporated in the Presidency College. In 1843-44, the government
sanctioned professorship of civil engineering at the Hindu College but suitable
candidate was not found. The council of Education turned to the institution of civil
engineers, London, for help in obtaining a suitable person but with no better result.
Finally, a Cambridge gentleman teaching in Hindu College was designated as
professor of civil engineering. However he could not make any contribution to the
teaching of the subject. An engineering class to train surveyors and builders was
started at Elphinston Institution, Bombay in June 1844. It had a very short life and
was closed by the end of 1847 because it failed to attract students of sufficient
merit to quality as “scientific civil engineers fully grounded in the theory of their
art” suitable to be employed as civil engineers.12, 13
A school started functioning in January 1845 at Saharanpur with few bright
students from Delhi and Agra collages. However it was closed after two years.
Saharanpur school had very short life but was significant in many ways. It was the
speed from which the Roorkee College grew. It specifically aimed to train in civil
engineering, those boys had already some education in science and mathematics at
one of the recently setup collage at Delhi and Agra but the most remarkable
feature of the school was the instructions was to be based not only scientific ideas
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brought from the west but also on the indigenous know how possessed by the
Indians. 13, 14
Lt. Governor James Thomason submitted a memorandum to supreme
government with detail proposal of setting up a college to train Indians as civil
engineers on September 23, 1847. The proposal was accepted by the governor
general Lord Hardinge and a notification of the government of North West
Provinces (NWP) was issued on Nov. 25, 1847 to establish a civil engineering
college at Roorkee. The collage started the functioning on January 1848 under the
principal ship of Lt. R. Maclagan with four other teachers. The college offered
course at three levels: the first department with a two years course of engineers;
the second department with a one year course for upper subordinate (overseer);
and the third department with one year course (later raised to two years) for lower
subordinates (sub overseers & drought men). The medium of instructions of first
two departments was English, in third one it was Urdu and after some years, Hindi
also. The Roorkee College was named as Thomos College of Civil Engineering in
1854, in honors of it founder. The Thomson College of Civil Engineering was
affiliated to Calcutta University in 1864 and to Allahbad University in 1894, but
this affiliation remained only notional, as no student were took diploma from these
universities. The affiliation with Allahabad University ended in 1905. The college
financially and administratively was governed by the NWP government and
enjoyed complete autonomy in academic matter.15
In 1859, introduced a civil engineering college in Madras, but it founded on
a very modest scale for the first few years, as government gave no grants in
addition to what were already being given to the survey school. The college was
patterned on the Roorkee system with slight variations in nomenclature: The
senior department to train engineers with students drawn from commissioned
officers of the army, the first department to produce overseers from among the
noncommissioned officers of the army, as well as civilians and a special drawing
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class to produce draughts men and estimators. The college was affiliated to the
University of Madras and the first batch of candidates received the Bachelor of
Civil Engineering (BCE) during in 1864. In 1880, Director of Public Instructions
(DPI) Madras suggested that mechanical engineering should be introduced at the
Madras collage of civil engineering should introduce at the Madras College of
Civil Engineering. In 1886, the collage underwent further reorganization and the
word civil was dropped from the name. The Madras University instituted a
separate degree course in mechanical engineering in 1894, changing the name
from BCE to Bachelor of Engineering (BE) and his was first institute in India to
offer a degree course in mechanical engineering.
In 1854, the council of education, Bengal submitted a proposal for the
establishment of a separate engineering department in a proposed presidency
college. In November 1856, the civil engineering college Calcutta started
functioning with ten students. The duration of course was two years and admission
was based on an entrance examination. With the establishment of Calcutta
University in 1857, the college was affiliated to it and the course rose with three
years with one of the practical training at the end of which successful candidate
got the degree in Licentiate in civil engineering (LCE) from the university. In
1865 after the approval from secretary of state the engineering college was closed
and instead a department of civil engineering at the presidency collage was opened
but in 1880, engineering college was given back its separate identity as a college
by transferring it to a building of the old Bishop’s College at Sibpur in the Howrah
with civil and mechanical engineering course. In May 1887, it was rechristened as
civil engineering college, Sibpur. Finally in 1920 it was given its present name-
Bengal Engineering College, Sibpur with the view to providing qualified
managers and assistant to mines. The Bengal government, on the
recommendations of a committee, decided to establish mining department at the
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college in 1906 and there were abolished in 1926 after the establishment of the
Dhanbad School of Mines. 16, 17
On the basis of a project submitted by the Bombay government, the
Supreme Government approved to establish a college for instruction of civil
engineers, surveyors, overseers etc. The project beyond starting an engineering
college and mechanical school at Poona. Consequently the school was converted
into the Poona Civil Engineering Collage in 1864 and affiliated to the University
of Bombay. The scope of instruction at the college was extended in 1879 to
include forestry and agriculture to trained forest rangers but in 1904, the forest
rangers courses was closed and in 1911,all other non engineering courses were
also abolished and it back its original name- Poona College of Engineering.18
The Victoria Jubilee Technical Institute founded in 1887 proudly claims
that the impulses, which led to the formation the Indian National Congress, were
also responsible for the origin of the institute. The institute aimed to provide
systematic courses in those science subjects which had direct bearing on the
industrial occupations existing in and around Bombay at the time. The licentiate
courses in electrical engineering and technical chemistry were added in 1903 and
1906 respectively. 19
The Princely state of Baroda established the Kala Bhawan Technical
Institute at Baroda in 1890.20
The Institute started with mechanical & chemical
technology, architecture and civil works. Copper’s Hill College was established in
1869-70 at a site called Copper’s Hill after which the college was popularly
known through out its short life. It was officially known as the Royal Indian
Engineering College in 1875 and was closed down in 1907.
On March 11, 1904 the Governor General Lord Curzon announced the
Indian education policy21
which advocated a speedy growth of technical education
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in India on the basis of a new approach. The importance of the technical education
was further stressed in 1913 by the Governor General through a policy statement22
.
In the beginning of the twentieth century i.e. in 1905 another engineering
college was established at Jadhavpur which started a diploma courses in
mechanical and civil engineering in 1920.23
The Indian Institute of Science,
Bangolor was established in 1911 and started a degree level course in general and
applied chemistry.24
The standard of work and scholarship setup during in it early
days and stand today as leading postgraduate institution in the country for
advanced instruction and research in many branches of science and technology.
The establishment of Banaras Hindu University (BHU) in 1916 gave a birth
of engineering college in 1919 with two departments – Electrical and Mechanical
in the campus at three levels: degree and diploma level in engineering and an
artisan level. The department of mining and metallurgy were added in the college
of engineering in the same year. Four year letter (1923), these departments was
given separate identity in department of engineering college. In 1944, its status
was further raised to become the college of mining and metallurgy. During the
period of 1919 to 1944, a lot of degree and diploma courses like industrial
chemistry (1919), ceramic technology (1924), diploma in soap manufacturing
(1932), etc. were started. Thus the BHU can proudly claim to have given the
greatest impetus to technical education in India during this period25, 26
.
In 1920, Harcourt Butler Technological Institute was established at Kanpur
(UP) with the primary objective of institute being chemical research for the
development of industries. The HBTI had the credit of producing a large number
of chemical technologists who manned a large part of chemical industry in all over
the country and it initiated many courses in various areas of chemical technology
like oil, soaps, paints, ceramics etc. 27, 13
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Indian School of Mines (IMS), Dhanbad was established in 192011
(while
school was formally opened by the Viceroy, Lord Irwin on 1st Dec. 1926) with six
departments: Mining, Geology, Engineering, Chemistry, Physics, and
Mathematics. In 1924, The Bihar Engineering School was raised to the status of
civil engineering college, affiliated to Patna University. The degree course in
electrical engineering was started in 1945 while mechanical engineering had to
wait till 1952.13
Calcutta University made it direct contribution to advanced level
technical education by starting postgraduate courses and creating facilities in
research in applied chemistry and (1920) applied physics (925) and its made great
reputation for itself in scientific research.28
While the department of chemical
technology of Bombay University, established in 1934 was also achieved a
prominent position among the higher institutions of chemical technology in he
country.29
Aligharh Muslim University (AMU) established his engineering college in
1935 with diploma courses in civil, electrical and mechanical engineering.25
While
JDV Collage of Science and Technology was started by the Andhra University at
Waltair in 1933 with three years degree course in physics and applied chemistry
(i.e. food, drugs, sugar technology, pharmaceuticals and chemical engineering).
In 1927, Radha Swami Satsang Sabha of Dayalbagh, Agra founded a
technical school to produce mechanics, technicians & engineers.28
By 1930 it
developed into a college imparting training in mechanical, electrical and
automobile engineering.30
The Bombay government opened two schools in 1939 for leather training in
Bandra- the government training Institute and the Government leather working
school. The modern education society of Poona established Sir Cusrow Wadia
Institute of Electrical Technology in 1938 with three years diploma course in
electrical technology and certificate course in radio servicing.28
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Delhi polytechnic was started at Delhi in 1941. At that time it was the only
institution of its kind in India designed to provide full time as well as part time
courses in technical commercial and art subject both for junior and senior
students.31
The Laxmi Narayan Institute of Technology was founded in Nagpur in
1943 as a sequel to the will of Rao B.D. Laxmi Narayan according to which the
annual income of his state was bequeathed to the Nagpur University for the
purpose. The Institute started with two year BSc (Technology) degree course in
chemical engineering and oil technology.13
AFTER INDEPENDENCE:
After independence various educational commissions and committees were
made to recommend highly practical and research oriented recommendations and
development plans for technical education in the country. In 1945, Sarkar
committee was appointed by the AICTE under the chairmanship of Mr. N.R.
Sarkar. This committee was recommended the establishment of higher technical
education institutes known as IITs in order to meet post war needs of engineers of
higher level32
. These institutes aimed at providing excellence in science and
engineering education.
The first Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) was established on May 15,
1950 and was then called Eastern Higher Technical Institute. The present name
“Indian Institute of Technology” was adopted just before its formal inauguration
on August 18, 1951. A chain of six more IITs were established in different part of
the country (as Table.1) (33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, &39)
and these were declared as Institute of
National Importance by an act of parliament (1961, amended in 1963).
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Table 2.1: Establishment of IITs in India
Sl.
No.
Institute Name Place Year of Establishment
1. IIT Kharagpur 1951
2. IIT Bambay 1958
3. IIT Madras 1959
4. IIT Kanpur 1960
5. IIT Delhi 1963
6. IIT Gowahati 1996
7. IIT Roorkee 2002
The Sarkar Committee recommended one thousand seats of postgraduate
(PG) as against 2400 undergraduate students in IITs. Over the years all IITs have
introduced very large number of PG and M Tech. programs to utilize the core
professionals of the faculties concerned. Recognizing the importance of such
engineering field as Biotechnology, IITs Delhi and Kharagpur have established
independent department which run integrated M Tech programs in this field.
Further the need for integration of science, engineering, technology and
management has been recognized and setting up a School of Management at IIT
Karagpur. Similar schools have been setup in other IITs also.
In the year 2008, Ministry of Human Resources (MHRD) announced to
open eight new IITs under XI five year plan in different states of India and
upgraded IT BHU as IIT to fulfill the demand of technical men power of the
country38
. Thus, the total no.of IITs will be increased up to sixteen. Out of these
six IITs, are functional and have admitted the students for session 2008-09
(Table.2) with 120 seats in each40, 41
.
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Table 2.2: List of IITs established under XI five year plan.
Sl. No. Institute Name Place
1. IIT, Bihar Patna
2. IIT, Rajsthan Kota
3. IIT, Andhra Pradesh Hydrabad
4. IIT, Panjab Ropar
5. IIT, Orissa Bhunaneshwar
6. IIT,Gujarat Gandhinagar
7. IIT, Himanchal Pradesh Mandi
8. IIT, Madhya Pradesh Indore
9. IIT, BHU Varanasi
It was the dream of Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru, the 1st Prime Minister of India to
see the India as a leader in Science and Technology42
. In 1955, Planning
Commission appointed an Engineering Planning Committee (EPC), to undertake
an overall assessment of the demand and supply position in respect of engineering
personnel because a large number of industrial projects were completed in 2nd
five
year plan (1956-61). To fulfill the above said demand of technical manpower, the
Government of India started seventeen Regional Engineering Collages (RECs)
(Table No.3) in different parts of the country43
.
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Table 2.3: Growth of the regional engineering colleges
Sl. No. RECs Year of
establishment
Land in acres Intake at UG
level
1. Warangal 1959 241 250
2. Suratkal 1960 362 250
3. Nagpur 1960 290 250
4. Bhopal 1960 610 250
5. Durgapur 1960 187 250
6. Jamshedpur 1960 341 250
7. Srinagar 1960 62 250
8. Allahabad 1961 233 250
9. Suratkal 1961 256 250
10. Calicut 1961 120 250
11. Rourkela 1961 648 250
12. Jaipur 1963 267 250
13. Kurukshtra 1963 300 250
14. Tiruchirappali 1964 850 250
15. Silture 1969 - -
16. Jalandhar 1985 - -
17. Hamirpur 1986 - -
The REC system served well initially but as time passed, some state
government did not shoulder proper responsibility to steer the Institutes in the
right direction. Following the long standing demand for more IITs, the MHRD
decided to upgrade all RECs to National Institute of Technology (NITs) in 2002
with three new NITs (Table No. 4). The Government of India introduced the
National Institute of Technology Act 2007 to bring twenty such institutions within
the ambit of the act and to provide them with complete autonomy in their
functioning. The individual NITs after the introduction of NITs Act have been
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functioning as autonomous Technical Universities and hence they can draft their
own curriculum and functioning policies.42
Table 2.4: List of NITs
Sl. No. NITs Place
1. National Institute of Technology Warangal
2. S V National Institute of Technology Surat
3. Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology Nagpur
4. Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology Bhopal
5. National Institute of Technology Durgapur
6. National Institute of Technology Jamshedpur
7. National Institute of Technology Srinagar
8. Motilal Neharu National Institute of Technology Allahabad
9. National Institute of Technology Surathkal
10. National Institute of Technology Calicut
11. National Institute of Technology Rourkela
12. Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur
13. National Institute of Technology Kurukshtra
14. National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappali
15. National Institute of Technology Agarthala
16. National Institute of Technology Raipur
17. National Institute of Technology Silcur
18. Dr BR Ambedkar National Institute of Technology Jalandhar
19. National Institute of Technology Hamirpur
20. National Institute of Technology Patna
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By the end of 5th
plan (1974-79), there was again considerable pressure for
expansion of engineering institutions to fulfill the demand of technical manpower
for sustainable development of the country but governments were finding it
difficult to make functional resources for the same. To handle this situation some
state government, especially Karnataka, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, and Andhra
Pradesh took a bold decision to permit private registered societies and trusts to
establish and run engineering institutions on a self finance basic and all these
Institutes were affiliated with the universities of the region or to the State Board of
Technical Education. This type of private engineering institutions came in very
large number but there was no effective mechanism to control their functioning
nor was any systematic admission process. The above situation continued even all
institute were brought under the AICTE control and latter the Supreme Court in
its historical judgment defined the norms for admission and fee structure for all
self- financing engineering institutions.
After come out of some set norms from AICTE and Supreme Court
decision, large number of engineering institutions in different parts of the country
were established (Table No- 5)44
and tried to satisfy the demand of technical
manpower. Presently, private engineering colleges running engineering courses
both at degree and PG level are very large scale and due to that engineering
institutions spread in all regions and state of the country.
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Table 2.5: Region/state wise distribution of engineering institutions in India
till 2004 (Data from AICTE website) Region State/Union Territory ENGINEERING
NOI Intake
Central 1. Madhya Pradesh 61 20210
2. Chhattisgarh 14 4020
3. Gujarat 37 12965
Total -----> 112 37195
Eastern 1. Mizoram 1 120
2. Sikkim 1 525
3. West Bengal 54 15477
4. Tripura 1 180
5. Meghalaya 1 240
6. Arunachal Pradesh 1 210
7. Andaman&Nicobar - -
8. Assam 3 750
9. Manipur 1 115
10. Nagaland - -
11. Orissa 41 13014
12. Jharkhand 10 3385
Total -----> 114 34016
North 1. Bihar 8 1905
2. Uttar Pradesh 89 28953
3. Uttranchal 9 1440
Total ----- 106 32298
North-West 1. Chandigarh 5 800
2. Haryana 38 12785
3. Himachal Pradesh 5 1260
4. Jammu& Kashmir 5 1545
5. New Delhi 14 4330
6. Punjab 45 14880
7. Rajasthan 41 15045
Total -----> 153 50645
South 1. Andhra Pradesh 236 82970
2. Pondicherry 6 2370
3. Tamil Nadu 254 80417
Total -----> 496 165757
South-West 1. Karnataka 118 46375
2. Kerala 89 24413
Total -----> 207 70788
West 1. Maharashtra 155 48250
2. Goa 3 740
3.Daman & D,Dadar,N.H. - -
Total -----> 158 48990
Grand Total 1346 439689
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With the time spent, both Government and private engineering institutes
doing well and continue to improve them shelf to get better status and become one
of the best institute of the nation through their quality of education and
quantitative research output, campus placements, infrastructure, academic
environment, industry interface and by producing quality technical manpower for
sustainable development of the country.
Table 2.6: Top hundred institutions of India ranked by outlook magazine in
2007 Rank Name of Institute Rank Name of Institute
1. Indian Institute of Technology IIT Kanpur 24. IIIT Hyderabad
2. Indian Institute of Technology IIT
Kharagpur 25. Harcourt Butler Technological Institute
Kanpur
3. Indian Institute of Technology IIT Bombay 26. Malviya National Institute of Technology
Jaipur
4. Indian Institute of Technology IIT Madras 27. VNIT Nagpur
5. Indian Institute of Technology IIT Delhi 28. NIT- National Institute of Technology
Kozhikode
6. BITS Pilani 29. Dhirubhai Ambani IICT Gandhinagar
7. IIT Roorkee 30. Osmania University College of Engineering
Hyderabad
8. IT-BHU Varanasi 31. College of Engineering , Andhra University
Vishakhapatnam
9. IIT-Guwahati 32. Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology New
Delhi
10. College of Engineering , Anna University
Guindy 33. NIT- National Institute of Technology
Kurukshetra
11. Jadavpur University , Faculty of
Engineering & Technology Calcutta
34. NIT- National Institute of Technology
Rourkela
12. Indian School of Mines Dhanbad 35. SVNIT Surat
13. NIT- National Institute of Technology
Warangal 36. Government College of Engineering Pune
14. BIT, Mesra Ranchi 37. Manipal Institute of Technology Manipal
15. NIT- National Institute of Technology
Trichy
38. JNTU Hyderabad
16. Delhi College of Engineering New Delhi 39. R.V. College of Engineering Bangalore
17. Punjab Engineering College Chandigarh 40.. NIT- National Institute of Technology
Jamshedpur
18. NIT- National Institute of Technology
Suratkal
41. University Visvesvaraya College of Engg.
Bangalore
19. Motilal Nehru National Institute of
Technology Allahabad 42. VJTI Mumbai
20. Thapar Institute of Engineering &
Technology Patiala
43. Vellore Institute of Technology Vellore
21. Bengal Eng and Science University ,
Shibpur Howrah
44. Coimbatore Institute of Technology
Coimbatore
22. MANIT Bhopal 45. SSN College of Engineering Chennai
23. PSG College of Technology Coimbatore 46. IIIT Allahabad
Contd….
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Rank Name of Institute Rank Name of Institute
47. College of Engineering Trivandrum 74. NIT- National Institute of Technology
Jalandhar
48. NIT Durgapur Durgapur
75. SV University Engineering College
Tirupati
49. SIT Calcutta 76. NIT- National Institute of Technology
Raipur
50. Mumbai University Institute of Chemical
Tech Mumbai 77. Vasavi College of Engineering Hyderabad
51. Sardar Patel College of Engineering
Mumbai
78. The ICFAI Institute of Science and
Technology Hyderabad
52. P.E.S. Institute of Technology, Banglore 79. NIT- National Institute of Technology
Patna
53. Maharashtra Institute of Technology Pune 80. Cummins Colleges of Engg of Women
Pune
54. Amrita Institute of Technology & Science
Coimbatore
81. VIT Pune
55. National Institute of Engineering Mysore 82. Shri Ramdeo Baba K.N. Engineering
College Nagpur
56. B.M.S. College of Engineering Bangalore 83. Muffakham Jah Engineering College
Hyderabad
57. Laxminarayan Institute Of Technology
Nagpur 84. Karunya Institute of Technology
Coimbatore
58. Nirma Institute of Technology Ahmedabad 85. D.J. Sanghvi Mumbai
59. IIIT Pune 86. Sathyabhama Engineering College Chennai
60. Amity School of Engineering Noida 87. Kongu Engineering College Erode
61. JNTU Kakinada 88. Mepco Schlek Engineering College
Sivakasi
62. S.J. College of Engineering Mysore 89. Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College
Ludhiana
63. Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology
Hyderabad 90. Hindustan Institute of Engineering
Technology Chennai
64. IIIT Bangalore 91. SDM College of Engineering Dharwad
65.. SRM Institute of Science and Technology
Chennai
92. R.V.R. & J.C. College Of Engg Guntur
66. SASTRA Thanjavur 93. Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi New
Delhi
67.. Bangalore Institute of Technology
Bangalore
94. K.L. College of Engineering Veddeswaram
68. The Technological Institute of Textile &
Sciences Bhiwani
95. Dharmsinh Desai Institute of Technology
Nadiad
69. III Gwalior 96. S.G.S. Institute of Technology & Science
Indore
70. JNTU Anantpur 97. Jabalpur Engineering College Jabalpur
71. M.S. Ramaiah Institute of Technology
Bangalore
98. Sree Chitra Thirunal College of
Engineering Trivandrum
72. Gitam Vishakhapatnam 99. G.H. Patel College of Engg & Technology
Vallabh Vidyanagar
73. NIT- National Institute of Technology
Hamirpur
100. Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology
Bhubaneshwar
Table 3.6 lists the top hundred engineering institute of India ranked by Out
Look Magazine in 2007 on the basis of their intellectual capital (IC), infrastructure
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& facilities (I&F), pedagogic systems (PS), industry interface (II), placements (P)
and total performance (T). As per the survey report IIT Kanpur occupy 1st position
and followed by Kharagpur, Bombay, Madras and Delhi. BITS Pilani was ranked
6th
and IIT Roorkee was at 7th
position. The recently upgraded IT BHU, Varanasi
as IIT has occupied 8th
rank where as IIT Guwahati rank was 9th
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Table 2.7: Top fifty private engineering institutions of India ranked by
outlook magazine in 2007 Rank Name of Institute Rank Name of Institute
1. BITS Pilani
26. Amrita Institute of Technology & Science
Coimbatore
2. BIT Mesra Ranchi
27. Shri Ramdeo Baba KN Engineering College
Nagpur
3. PSG College of Technology Coimbatore 28. Karunya Institute of Technology Coimbatore
4. Thapar Inst. of Engineering &Technology
Patiala
29. Kongu Engineering College,Perundurai Erode
5. Dhirubhai Ambani Inst. of Infocom.Tech
Gandhinagar
30. Sreenidhi Inst. of Science &Technology
Hyderabad
6. Manipal Institute of Technology Manipal 31. SDM College of Engineering Dharwad
7. Vellore Institute of Technology Vellore 32. Mufkham Jah Engineering College
Hyderabad
8. VJTI Mumbai 33. Mufkham Jah Engineering College
Hyderabad
9. SSN College of Engineering Chennai 34. Vasavi College of Engineering Hyderabad
10. RV College of Engineering Bangalore 35. Jaypee University of Information Tech Solan
11. PES Institute of Technology Bangalore 36. RVR & JC College Of Engineering Guntur
12. Sardar Patel College of Engineering Mumbai 37. Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology
Bhubaneshwar
13. Maharashtra Institute of Technology Pune 38. KL College of Engineering Vaddeswaram
14. SJ College of Engineering Mysore 39. Babu Banarasi Das Lucknow
15. SASTRA University Thanjavur 40. Institute of Technology & Management
Gurgaon
16. Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology
Hyderabad
41. Hindustan Inst. of Engineering Technology
Chennai
17. Nirma Institute of Technology Ahmedabad 42. Siddhartha Engineering College Vijayawada
18. BMS College of Engineering Bangalore 43. Sona College of Technology Salem
19. SRM Institute of Science and Technology
Chennai
44. Galgotia Noida
20. Bangalore Institute of Technology Bangalore 45. VIT Pune
21. Sathyabhama Engineering College Chennai 46. Yeshwantrao Chavan College of Engg
Nagpur
22. Gitam Vishakhapatnam 47. Sree Chitra Thirunal College of Engineering
Thiruvananthapuram
23. National Institute of Engineering Mysore 48. Kakatiya Institute of Technology & Science
Warangal
24. The ICFAI Inst. of Science and Technology
Hyderabad
49. KLE Society’s College of Engineering
Belgaum
25. Mepco Schlenk Engineering College Sivakasi 50. JSS Academy of Technical Education
Bangalore
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Table 3.7 lists the top fifty private engineering institute of India based on a
survey report of Look Magazine in 2007 on the basis of their intellectual capital
(IC), infrastructure & facilities (I&F), pedagogic systems (PS), industry interface
(II), placements (P) and total performance (T). As per the survey BITS Pilani has
occupied 1st rank and followed by the BIT Ranchi , PSG College of Technology
Coimbatore, Thapar Institute of Technology, Patiala and Dhirubhai Ambani
Institute of Infocom. Tech Gandhinagar.46
.
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