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DQ-CMR Top T-SchoolsDQ-CMR Top T-Schools

Changing EquationsIITs are still the most revered for all-round academic excellence but this year’s survey sees the non-IITs bettering the IITs on quite a few parameters, making their mark and creating new benchmarks

The Top TenIIT Bombay Mumbai 1

IIT Madras Chennai 2IIT Delhi New Delhi 3IIT Kharagpur Kharagpur 4International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad Hyderabad 5Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani Pilani 6Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati Guwahati 7Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University Varanasi 8National Institute of Technology Karnataka Surathkal Surathkal 9Netaji Subhash Institute of Technology Delhi 10

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The Top 100 T-schoolsRank 2011

Rank 2010

Change Institutes City Score hR perception

Total Score

1 1 0 IIT Bombay Mumbai 52.44 25 77.44

2 4 2 IIT Madras Chennai 54.75 22 76.753 2 -1 IIT Delhi New Delhi 47.11 24.05 71.164 3 -1 IIT Kharagpur Kharagpur 47.47 22.51 69.985 5 0 International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad Hyderabad 49.22 20.42 69.646 9 3 Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani Pilani 42.76 21.44 64.207 8 1 Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati Guwahati 42.80 19.42 62.228 7 -1 Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University Varanasi 41.92 17.15 59.079 10 1 National Institute of Technology Karnataka Surathkal Surathkal 40.65 13.94 54.5910 11 1 Netaji Subhash Institute of Technology Delhi 42.89 11.36 54.2511 14 3 Birla Institute of Technology Ranchi 38.58 15.31 53.8912 16 4 Delhi Technological University Delhi 41.23 12.36 53.5913 17 4 Amity School of Engineering and Technology Noida 38.67 14.09 52.7614 19 5 DA Institute of Information Communication Technology (DA-IICT),

GandhinagarGandhinagar 38.08 12.2 50.28

15 National Institute of Technology, Warangal Warangal 37.32 10.53 47.8516 18 2 College of Engineering, Pune Pune 35.62 10.77 46.3917 National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli Tiruchirappalli 40.48 5.36 45.8418 12 -6 National Institute of Technology, Rourkela Rourkela 38.96 6.03 44.9919 20 1 Thapar University, Patiala Patiala 35.53 8.84 44.3720 Motilal Nehru Institute of Engineeting, Allahabad Allahabad 38.07 6.25 44.3221 31 10 Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology Surat 34.58 8.58 43.1622 ABV IIIT and Management, Gwalior Gwalior 34.91 8.14 43.0523 23 0 National Institute of Technology, Jamshedpur Jamshedpur 34.45 8.23 42.6824 36 12 SSN College of Engineering Kalavakkam off Chennai 33.68 8.49 42.1725 29 4 Maharaja Agrasen Institute of Technology Delhi 36.03 6.03 42.0626 38 12 Institute of Technology, Nirma University Ahmedabad 32.76 8.58 41.3427 33 6 Amrita School of Engineering Coimbatore 35.69 5.6 41.2928 College of Engineering, Trivandrum Trivandrum 32.66 8.36 41.0229 32 3 West Bengal University of Technology Kolkata 38.96 1 39.9630 28 -2 PES Insitute of Technology (PESIT) Bengaluru 39.73 39.7331 24 -7 National Institute of Technology, Silchar Silchar 35.08 4.3 39.3832 34 2 Harcourt Butler Technological Institute Kanpur 33.46 5.63 39.0933 41 8 Mepco Schlenk Engineering College, Sivakasi Sivakashi 33.96 5.1 39.0634 43 9 Sir M Visvesvaraya Institute of Technology Bengaluru 33.89 5 38.8935 37 2 Bharati Vidyapeeth Deemed University, College of Engineering Pune 24.43 14.2 38.6336 BNM Institute of Technology Bengaluru 31.94 6.43 38.3737 54 17 BS Abdur Rahman University Chennai 32.25 5.36 37.6138 42 4 Rungta College of Engineering & Technology Bhilai 35.32 1.88 37.2039 40 1 Galgotias College of Engineering and Technology Greater Noida 31.42 5.63 37.0540 25 -15 New Horizon College of Enginering Bengaluru 36.54 36.5441 67 26 Dehradun Institute of Technology Dehradun 35.66 35.6642 50 8 Army Institute of Technology (AIT) Pune 32.37 3.2 35.5743 46 3 Oriental Institute of Science and Technology Bhopal 34.74 34.7444 65 21 Maharaja Surajmal Institute of Technology New Delhi 29.40 5.2 34.6045 79 34 GMR Institute of Technology Rajam 24.82 9.65 34.4746 52 6 Rajagiri School of Engineering and Technology Kochi 29.41 4.95 34.3647 48 1 Bannari Amman Institute of Technology Erode 34.19 34.1948 68 20 Orissa Engineering College Bhubaneswar 34.11 34.1149 Ganesh Lal Bajaj Institute of Technology and Management Greater Noida 33.61 33.6150 44 -6 Thiagarajar College of Engineering Madurai 33.54 33.5451 63 12 Thakural College of Technology Bhopal 33.43 33.43

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oveRall SCoReSRank 2011

Rank 2010

Change Institutes City Score hR perception

Total Score

52 69 17 B I T Sindri Dhanbad 24.35 8.99 33.3453 45 -8 Panimalar Enineering College Chennai 32.89 32.8954 Govt Model Engineering College Kochi 32.38 32.3855 Easwari Engineering College Chennai 32.16 32.1656 Heritage Institute of Technology, Kolkata Kolkata 31.79 31.7957 Trident Academy of Technology Bhubaneswar 31.65 31.6558 53 -5 Babu Banarsi Das Institute of Technology Ghaziabad 30.98 30.9859 Sona College of Technology Salem 30.57 30.5760 NIT Kurukshetra Kurukshetra 24.39 5.96 30.3561 Hindustan College of Science & Technology Mathura 24.52 5.8 30.3262 64 3 SJB Institute of Technology Bengaluru 30.03 30.0363 National Institute of Technology, Agartala Agartala 29.50 29.5064 Rajalakshmi Engineering College Chennai 28.77 28.7765 Government College of Engineering & Ceramic Technology Kolkata 28.53 28.5366 51 -14 ABES Engineering College, Ghaziabad Ghaziabad 28.37 28.3767 Kasegaon Education Society, Rajarambapu Institute

of TechnologyIslampur 28.31 28.31

68 Govt. College of Engineering, Amravati Amravati 28.27 28.2769 PDPM Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design &

ManufacturingJabalpur 27.90 27.90

70 Hindustan Institute of Technology & Management Agra 23.84 4 27.8471 National Institute of Technology, Patna Patna 27.39 27.3972 76 6 Turba Institute of Engineering and Information Technology Bhopal 26.88 26.8873 77 6 DAV Institute of Engineering and Technology, Jalandhar Jalandhar 26.35 26.3574 MAER’S MIT College of Engineering Pune 26.12 26.1275 Jawaharlal Nehru National College of Engg Shimoga 26.10 26.1076 Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering & Technology Chittoor 25.85 25.8577 Birla Vishvakarma Mahavidyalaya Anand 25.61 25.6178 Anand Engineering College Agra 24.76 24.7679 RCC Institute of Information Technology Kolkata 24.62 24.6280 92 13 Vemana Institute of Technology Bengaluru 24.39 24.3981 86 6 Faculty of Science and Technology, ICFAI University Dehradun 24.24 0.1 24.3482 Velagapudi Ramakrishna Sidhhartha Engineering College Vijayawada 23.86 23.8683 M V J College of Engineering Bengaluru 23.39 23.3984 85 1 GH Patel College of Engineering & Technology Vallabh

Vidyanagar20.85 1.88 22.73

85 JB Institute of Engineering & Technology Hyderabad 22.06 22.0686 Kamaraj College of Engineering and Technology Virudhunagar 21.36 21.3687 Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering, Tirupati Tirupati 21.18 21.1888 PES College of Engineering Mandya 20.99 20.9989 Dr MGR Education and Research Institute Chennai 20.42 20.4290 University College of Engineering Hyderabad 19.01 19.0191 Vel Tech Multi Tech Dr Rangarajan Dr Sakunthala Engineering

CollegeChennai 18.72 18.72

92 81 -11 Marathwada Institute of Technology, Aurangabad Aurangabad 17.78 17.7893 Smt Kamala and Sri Venkappa M Agadi College of Engineering

and TechnologyLaxmeshwar 17.14 17.14

94 G Pulla Reddy Engineering College Kurnool, AP 16.08 16.0895 University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering Bengaluru 15.86 15.8696 94 -2 Ghousia College of Engineering Ramanagaram 15.75 15.7597 Textile & Engineering Institute Rajwada Inst Ichalkaranji 15.43 15.4398 Delhi Institute of Technology and Management Sonepat 15.15 15.1599 Konark Institute of Science and Technology Bhubaneswar 14.63 14.63100 KS Institute of Technology Bengaluru 14.21 14.21

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True to this saying, India’s next logical evolution to a global superpower (from the much clichéd ‘Asian

tiger’ reference) lies in our ability to groom further home grown technol-ogy talent that should be truly global in nature. Clearly knowledge is the single most potent weapon India must leverage to become an eco-nomic superpower. But one needs to go beyond the rhetoric and must frequently do a due diligence on the state of our technology education delivery and make amends for its improvement. That is the Dataquest-CMR Top T-School Survey’s key in-tention. Into its 7th year, this year’s survey findings have their usual share of surprises and pointers.

Over the years we have received our share of bouquets and brick-

“Knowledge itself is power”—francis Bacon

Many IndusTry bodIes have froM TIMe To TIMe looked aT The eMployabIlITy of overall engIneerIng graduaTes (MosTly non IITs whIch esTIMaTes suggesT Is as low as 25%. clearly educaTIon reforM experTs argue ThaT engIneerIng schools need To engage In More eMpIrIcal currIculuM wITh sTrong orIenTaTIon Towards currenT job and deMand dynaMIcs

Institutes offering Doctoral programs In engg

44%no

56%Yes

phD/Doctorate Count

159

203

19 14

no of Student pursuing phD (average)

no of Doctorate awarded (average)

2010-11

2011-12

To foster more research this compo-nent has to increase.

Salary (In lakhs)

average Max Salary

average an-nual Salary by all Companies

average annual Sal-ary by IT/ITeS Companies

8.79.1

10.9

3.4 3.7 3.4 3.6 3.9

2008-09 2009-10 2010-11

Just a marginal increase, hope this component also goes up going forward

Recruiment level (all Companies)

428

2008-09 2009-10 2010-11

465

503

309328

380

72 71 76

208216

276

49 47 55 52 62

24 26 30

average Strength of Final Year Batch

average no of Students placed

% of Students placed

average no of Students placed in IT/ITeS

% of Students placed in IT/ITeS

no of Companies visiting (average)

no of IT/ITeS-Companies visiting (average)

no significant changes here, it’s been rather consistent over the years

(Base: 100)

4.0

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bats; we have considered the macro landscape—comprising thousands of technology schools present across the country. Our intention is to present some of the best T-schools in the country, IITs and non-IITs chosen through an elaborate process of selecting, short listing and rank-ing. In the end the institutes scores on various parameters that decide the top spots. Also, why include the IITs’ individually? Well, a convinc-ing answer for that lies in the fact that though IITs are a collective intellectual ecosystem, each IIT has its share of unique differentiators and hence the need to rank them as separate entities from a rank-ing perspective, to foster healthy competition.

Parameters—Up CloseOverall, looking at the top 10 list-ings there was quite a bit of change. As we look at the Ivy League of Top 5, the top 4 places go to the IITs with the exception of IIIT Hydera-bad holding on to its #5 position. But it is interesting to note that while IIT Bombay retained its #1 position, tough competition ensued between the IITs of Delhi, Chennai, and Kharagpur and the outcomes altered the Top 5 ranking composi-tion with IIT Madras making an impressive climb to #2 position. In fact it was a tight rope finish by IIT Bombay whose overall HR percep-tion score helped it clinch the top spot, which IIT Madras missed by a whisker.

Both IIT Bombay and IIT Ma-dras’ rightful stature in the survey is due to the pioneering efforts they have been doing all these years, that’s yielding fruits y-o-y. Be it initiatives like alumni funding in which IIT Bombay tops. For instance IIT-B has launched a dedicated online donations portal for better reach as well as transfer of funds easier from donors abroad. In terms of research and industry-institute

Zone-wise Toppers excluding IITs

S no Institute overall Rank

1 Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani 6

2 Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi 8

3 Netaji Subhash Institute of Technology, Delhi 10

4 Delhi Technological University, Delhi 12

5 Amity School of Engineering and Technology, Noida 13

S no Institute overall Rank

1 International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad 5

2 National Institute of Technology, Karnataka Surathkal 9

3 National Institute of Technology, Warangal 15

4 National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli 17

5 SSN College of Engineering, Chennai 24

S no Institute overall Rank

1 Birla Institute of Technology, Ranchi 11

2 NIT Rourkela 18

3 National Institute of Technology, Jamshedpur 23

4 West Bengal University of Technology, Kolkata 29

5 National Institute of Technology, Silchar 31

S no Institute overall Rank

1 Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information Communication Technology, Gandhinagar

14

2 College of Engineering, Pune 16

3 Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, Surat 21

4 Institute of Technology, Nirma University, Ahmedabad 26

5 Bharati Vidyapeeth Deemed University, College of Engineer-ing, Pune

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collaboration IIT–B plays an aggres-sive role. For instance it is working on country specific unique research initiatives together with the industry and one good instance here is its collaboration with IBM for an Open Collaboration Research (OCR) project with the Industrial Design Center (IDC) at the institute.

This unique research collabora-tion focuses on the development of new designs for mobile device interfaces that can easily be used by people who are semiliterate or illiterate, as well as individuals who have limited or no access to information technology. Ultimately through this collaboration the core focus is on developing simple, inexpensive mobile phone user interfaces for everyone, regardless of geography or education level, aims to introduce new levels of ease-of-use to mobile phone interaction via developed software technology that will be made available to the public through open source. Meanwhile IIT Madras also has excellent industry academia collaborations.

Looking at the individual param-eters, Infrastructure is one sweet spot for IIT Bombay and in the Top 5, IITs rule in these parameters with the only exception being NIT Rourkela at #5. Meanwhile NITK-Surathkal topped in the Industry Interface. In terms of Academic En-vironment, IIT Kharagpur took the honors and made it to the top spot followed by IIT Madras, Delhi, and Bombay. On academic environment as we look at the non-IITs the top ones were Institute of Technology BHU, NIT Rourkela, IIIT Hydera-bad, Dehradun Institute of Technol-ogy and BITS Pilani. Looking at the results on academic environment with bulk of institutes being IITs in the Top 5, the other non-IITs need to work on this front more to give at least stiff competition to the IITs.

Monitoring for QualityOf late the quality of engineering education is subject to much debate including the quality of faculty, as well as graduating students. Experts suggest that the mushrooming

of engineering colleges though a sign of supply to cater the demand but often times the availability of infrastructure, academic output and quality of faculty asking for more quality. Moreover the quality of stu-dents from these new and emerging engineering colleges which comes in all names with strong regional political affinities need to be closely monitored for quality and their over-all academic credentials and their industry accreditations need to be taken into consideration.

Putting this perspective many in-dustry bodies have from time to time looked at the employability of overall engineering graduates (mostly non-IITs) which estimates suggest is as low as 25%. Clearly education reform experts argue that engineer-ing schools need to engage in more empirical curriculum with strong orientation towards current job and demand dynamics and try and arrive at a judicious blend of theory and practice with string emphasis on soft skills as well. This many experts feel will significantly improve the employability quotient of graduating engineers across disciplines and will bring more parity and even bridge the knowledge divide between IITs, NITs and other privately funded engineering institutions.

In the recent times even IITs and its entrance test system—the JEE has come in for debate and scrutiny. Some of the experts argue that the JEE candidate selection process has become so outdated and one needs more innovative testing processes that can test the candidates’ real engineering IQ rather than theo-retical aspect of things. With the mushrooming of IIT coaching center experts are asking for ground-up en-gineering education reforms in the country. Many feel the JEE system has become too old and predictable and hence many candidates prepar-ing for the IITs adopt the ‘mugging theoretical concepts’ method and

placement-wise RankingInstitutes City Total (out of 40) Rank

International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad

Hyderabad 30.0 1

IIT Bombay Mumbai 28.6 2

IIT Madras Chennai 28.6 3

PES Insitute of Technology (PESIT) Bengaluru 26.9 4

Netaji Subhash Institute of Technology Delhi 26.1 5

Delhi Technological University Delhi 25.9 6

IIT Kharagpur Kharagpur 25.3 7

Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani Pilani 25.0 8

National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli Tiruchirappalli 24.6 9

Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati Guwahati 24.3 10

The patterns suggest IITs have stiff competion from institutes like IIIT hyderabad which are clearly upping their ante

Salary in lakhs 2010-11 2009-10 2008-09 2007-08

Average Salary among IITs 7.20 6.31 5.90 6.43

Average Salary among NIT 4.73 4.10 4.13 3.79

Clearly a gap exists in terms of compensation between IITs and nITs

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by taking so much mock tests they clear the final real JEE. While these candidates are top scorers in both school and in IIT JEE the question is how much extempore knowledge they have on certain theoretical con-cepts and their orientation towards hardcore engineering. Recently former Infosys chief Narayana Murthy, pondered over the quality of students at IITs right now and the need for improvement when com-pared to global technology schools in the US.

While quality of students is one issue raised by some in the industry in IITs and other engineer-ing schools in the country, a more important debate is on the quality of the faculty as well. It might be recalled earlier this year Union Minister Jairam Ramesh openly criticised the quality of faculty in IITs and IIMs. But from the IITs’ perspective, the institutes do not seem to be unduly perturbed by all these criticisms and continue to do their work. But experts feel that the debate on improving the quality must be seriously taken in the right spirit and that attitude will ultimate-ly benefit the whole IIT and overall engineering education system in the country and further its quality benchmarks.

The Placement EdgeGetting back into the survey find-ings and as we look at parameters like placements there were some upsets. IIT Bombay vacated its #1 position (previous year) to IIIT, Hyderabad this year but managed to occupy the #2 position. According to IIT Mumbai’s placement report it says, “Amongst positive vibes about economic recovery and increased hiring, IIT Bombay entered its placement season with high expec-tations in 2010-11. Around 250 organizations participated in the campus placement and over 950 jobs have been offered through on-campus and pre-placement offers. Students from Bachelor of Technol-ogy (BTech), Master of Science (MSc), Dual Degree (DD), Master of Technology (MTech), Master of De-sign (MDes), Master of Philosophy (MPhil) and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) programs in various fields of engineering, science and technol-ogy, and design participated in the placement process.

It’s indeed an impressive climb by IIT Madras which zipped forward to #3 position compared to #11 the previous year. Interestingly none of the IITs surveyed made it to the number one spot and moreover in the Top 5 on placements there were

only 2 IITs and 3 non-IITs (apart from IIIT, Hyderabad the others were PES Institute of Technology (PESIT) and Netaji Subhash Insti-tute of Technology). This shows that other institutes apart from the IITs are fast catching up on the place-ments and attracting some of the best and big names in the industry. Instances like PESIT entering inside Top 5 shows the changing land-scape and the recruiters’ attitudinal change in going for different caliber of institutes’ apart from the IITs. The prominent exits out of top 10 this year were ones like Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information Communication, IIT Guwahati, and NIT Karnataka Surathkal.

Emphasis on ResearchThis is one area India needs to fos-ter more output of global standards. Also this is one area where experts call for rapid and well rounded re-forms that can usher in the motiva-tion and deepen opportunities for higher learning and research across disciplines. For instance the initia-tives like the Higher Education and

Industry Interface-wise RankingCollege name City Total Score (out of 5) Rank

National Institute of Technology Karnataka Surathkal Surathkal 5.0 1

IIT Madras Chennai 3.7 2

IIT Delhi New Delhi 3.7 3

IIT Bombay Mumbai 3.5 4

Faculty of Science and Technology, ICFAI University Dehradun 3.3 5

Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University Varanasi 3.3 6

Harcourt Butler Technological Institute Kanpur 3.3 7

International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad

Hyderabad 3.2 8

National Institute of Technology, Patna Patna 3.2 9

BS Abdur Rahman University Chennai 3.1 10

This parameter defies popular perception and drives home a point that industry interface patterns are changing and IITs do have some serious competition

Research environment(Avg No of Papers/Year)

161.5

191.1

2009-10 2010-11

The initiatives like the higher educa-tion and Research Bill, 2010 drafted by the Ministry of hRD has set the stage for much needed reforms

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Research Bill, 2010 drafted by the Ministry of Human Resource Devel-opment (MHRD) has set the stage for much needed reforms in space but it needs to be implemented fast and it is expected to be passed by end of this year. The proposed higher education bill will provide for the determination, co-ordination, maintenance of standards in, and promotion of higher education and research, including university edu-cation, technical and professional education other than agricultural and medical education, and for that purpose, to establish the National Commission for Higher Education and Research.

The bill also proposes to further to promote the autonomy of higher educational institutions for the free pursuit of knowledge and innova-tion, and for facilitating access, inclusion and opportunities to all, and providing for comprehensive and holistic growth of higher educa-tion and research in a competitive global environment through reforms and renovation; and to provide for an advisory mechanism of eminent peers in academia. While cutting edge research on various fields happens across IITs, with the higher education bill one expects the other non-IITs can also speed up their research initiatives.

Looking at this year’s survey outcomes on the research side, only 56% of the surveyed sample institutions offered PhD degrees and this component has to go up significantly for higher research activities. But yet again it also puts into focus the academic environ-ment and infrastructure which are the two key elements for candidates pursuing research. For instance even in IITs a bulk of them moves out after their bachelors’ to MS programs abroad, mainly the US. So the challenge for IITs despite having the best of everything is to retain its own graduating students to opt for PG and PhD within the IIT system. But for non-IITs with the exceptions like BITS and some NITs the overall infrastructure relating to research activities need to be increased. One needs focussed collaborations and speciality labs that can attract can-didates who can feel more secured once they see a career path post their research completion.

A closer look at data on this front this year shows a silver lining. For instance the average number of PhD intake saw an increase and in tan-dem the average number of research papers also increased. For the non-IITs it can source some learn-ing form the IITs model of higher research. For instance IIT Madras in addition to providing academic and departmental research programs, it has also initiated interdisciplinary research projects across 16 do-mains cutting across environmental technologies to IT. Also to foster more practical application of the research skills institutes must go on aggressively with Industrial Con-sultancy. In the case of IIT Madras, it provides for faculty and staff of the institute to undertake specific assignments for the industry, which include project design, testing and evaluation or even training in new areas of industrial development. In-dustries and organizations involved

Infrastructure-wise RankingInstitutes City Total Score (out of 10) Rank

IIT Bombay Mumbai 8.6 1

IIT Madras Chennai 7.8 2

IIT Delhi New Delhi 7.4 3

Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati Guwahati 6.8 4

NIT Rourkela Rourkela 6.3 5

IIT Kharagpur Kharagpur 6.1 6

Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology Surat 6.1 7

Amity School of Engineering and Technology Noida 5.8 8

National Institute of Technology Karnataka Surathkal Surathkal 5.8 9

International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad

Hyderabad 5.8 10

here IITs shine and other institutes need to emulate the benchmarks set by IITs

academic environment-wise RankingInstitutes City Total Score (out of 20) Rank

IIT Kharagpur Kharagpur 15.7 1

IIT Madras Chennai 14.7 2

IIT Delhi New Delhi 13.0 3

IIT Bombay Mumbai 11.7 4

Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University Varanasi 10.9 5

NIT Rourkela Rourkela 10.8 6

Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati Guwahati 10.4 7

International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad

Hyderabad 10.2 8

Birla Institute of Technology Ranchi 9.7 9

Dehradun Institute of Technology Dehradun 9.6 10

Yet again IITs make a point for others to follow

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BackgroundDataquest compiled the seventh Dataquest-CMR survey scorecard on the best T-schools in the country on the basis of a methodology and calculations vetted by research firm CMR.

Research ObjectiveThe aim of this survey was to determine the top Technology Schools (BE, BTech, or similar level graduate technical course) in the country and rank them on a list of parameters important for both students and recruiters.

Research MethodologyThe Dataquest-CMR survey was done in 2 phases.phase 1–Desk Research: In this phase, the CMR team so as to identify the list of 300 Tech Schools did an exhaustive desk research and lead-ing 40 companies who would be invited to be a part of the survey. We screened colleges established post 2004 and the ones which were not offering a BE, BTech, or similar level graduate technical courses.phase 2: The Tech Schools and the IT companies shortlisted in Phase 1 were approached by CMR team. For the Tech Schools both email responses and face-to-face interviews with the college representative (preferably the placement coordinator) were considered. HR heads of the leading companies were contacted over email to include the re-cruiter perception in the survey. The data was compiled on the basis of 2-year objective data (academic years 2009-10 and 2010-11) provided by institutes and perception scores of the recruiters.

The RankingThe research team from CMR carried out the validation exercise. The objective scores were obtained by evaluating the T-schools against the following parameters:n Placementsn Infrastructuren Academic Environmentn Industry InterfaceThe weights were distributed as: Placements (40%), Infrastructure (10%), Intellectual Capital (20%), and Industry Interface (5%). The total weightage assigned to objective data was 75%.

These parameters were further categorized into sub parameters. This was done in the following manner.

Placementsn Percentage of students placed in all type of companiesn Percentage of students placed in IT companiesn Number of companies visiting campus in all type of companies per studentn Number of IT companies visiting campus per studentn Maximum Salary- Per Annumn Average salary of all type of companies- Per Annumn Average salary of IT companies- Per Annum

Infrastructuren Computer to student ration Percentage of computers connected to internetn Percentage of students that can be accommodated in hosteln Internet access in hosteln Percentage of P IV/latest configuration computersn Internet access in computer labs

How We Ranked the T-Schools(The methodology of the Dataquest-CMR “Best Tech School Survey 2011”)

Methodology

n Batch strength for PG Course in engineering disciplinesn Availability of Digital/Network in-campus library

Academic Environmentn Faculty/Student ration Percentage of permanent facultyn Percentage of Permanent Faculty with PhDn Number of Patents obtained by the instituten Batch strength of PhD course in engineering disciplinen Percentage of students passed with first division in BE/BTech Degreen Average number of research papers in 2009-10 and 2010-11

Industry Interfacen Number of MoU signed by the industryn Average number of assignments in 2009-10 and 2010-11 for organizationsn Affiliation or linkages with international institute/education body

perception Score: The perception survey of recruiters was conducted through another questionnaire. Recruiters were asked to rate importance of various aspects while deciding which Tech School to visit for campus recruitments on a 5-point scale. Recruiters were also welcome to add any parameter of their choice. They were given a list of institutes which they had to rate on a 10-point scale. The overall weightage given to the recruiter’s response was 25.

The composite score, which is the total of the objective data score and the recruiter’s perception score, was used to arrive at the final ranking.

analysis Methodology :All the absolute data provided by the institutions were normalized and converted to relative data to evaluate the relative distance among the institutes across different parameters. After normalization the data had been multiplied with respective weights of each parameter and then the total objective score out of 75 was calculated. Similarly from the HR’s perception, the total score out of 25 was calculated only for those institutes that received some marks from the HR professionals otherwise the HR portion was kept blank. These 2 scores were then added up and composite score was calculated out of 100. The whole data was then arranged in descending order and we finally got the top institutes across India.

Reasons for Change in Rank : Every year, we experience few reshuffling of ranks every year mainly due to the reason that this survey is based on hard facts rather than perception only. As a result, the total score of a particular institute gets modified and altered every year.

validation process : The CMR research team did all the data validation exercise. We had asked for few documents from the institutes like list of companies visited in the campus, number of students recruited by each one of them and the salary offered to the students, placement brochure, institute prospectus, compa-nies for whom consulting/industrial assignment has been done, name of journal where research paper has been published, and official copy of semester results. Apart from these we had also validated the data from various secondary sources. Especially the placement data have been validated from the data provided by the various companies who generally visit campuses for placements.

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in the industrial development re-quest IIT faculty to take up specific assignments channelled through the Center for Industrial Consultancy and sponsored Research (ICSR).

So clearly institutes must attract more R&D jobs. If we take IIT-B’s last placement season, its placement report says that with the economy increasingly striving for high-end products and services, a larger number of companies now strive to develop products on the forefront of technology. IIT-B saw an increase in organizations hiring fresh gradu-ates in the R&D sector. This sector had been steadily growing for the past few years and this year IIT-B saw some premier job offers in this sector. A total of 16 R&D organiza-tions offered around 70 positions this year.

Compensation MattersWhile attracting top notch com-panies for the campus recruitment drive is a matter of great prestige but when it comes to compensa-tion there exists a gap in terms of what is offered between the IITs and non-IITs. Specifically if we compare IITs with NIT, the former takes the

hR perception-wise Ranking

RanK InSTITUTeS hR SCoRe

1 IIT Bombay 25

2 IIT Delhi 24.05

3 IIT Kharagpur 22.51

4 IIT Madras 22

5 Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani 21.44

6 International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad 20.42

7 Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati 19.42

8 Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University 17.15

9 Birla Institute of Technology 15.31

10 Bharati Vidyapeeth Deemed University, College of Engineering 14.2

11 Amity School of Engineering and Technology 14.09

12 National Institute of Technology Karnataka Surathkal 13.94

13 Delhi Technological University 12.36

14 DA Institute of Information Communication Technology (DA-IICT), Gandhinagar 12.2

15 Netaji Subhash Institute of Technology 11.36

16 College of Engineering, Pune 10.77

17 National Institute of Technology, Warangal 10.53

18 GMR Institute of Technology 9.65

19 B I T Sindri 8.99

20 Thapar University Patiala 8.84

21 Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology 8.58

22 Institue of Technology, Nirma University 8.58

23 SSN College of Engineering 8.49

24 College of Engineering, Trivandrum 8.36

25 National Institute of Technology, Jamshedpur 8.23

26 ABV IIIT and Management, Gwalior 8.14

27 BNM Institute of Technology 6.43

28 Motilal Nehru Institute of Engineering, Allahabad 6.25

29 NIT Rourkela 6.03

30 Maharaja Agrasen Institute of Technology 6.03

31 NIT Kurukshetra 5.96

32 Hindustan College of Science & Technology 5.8

33 Harcourt Butler Technological Institute 5.63

34 Galgotias College of Engineering and Technology 5.63

35 Amrita School of Engineering 5.6

36 National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli 5.36

37 BS Abdur Rahman University 5.36

38 Maharaja Surajmal Institute of Technology 5.2

39 Mepco Schlenk Engineering College, Sivakasi 5.1

40 Sir M Visvesvaraya Institute of Technology 5

Colleges were ranked according to the perception of the recruiters on various hR related aspects

The proposed hIgher educaTIon and research bIll, 2010 drafTed by The MInIsTry of huMan resource developMenT (Mhrd) has seT The sTage for Much needed reforMs In space buT IT needs To be IMpleMenTed fasT and IT Is expecTed To be passed by The end of ThIs year

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Weightage of parameters and Sub parametersparameters Sub parameters Weights

Placements % of students placed in last 2 years 13

40

% of students placed in last 2 years in IT companies 2

No of companies visiting campus in last 2 years 7

No of IT companies visiting campus in last 2 years 2

Max Salary (last 2 yrs) - Per Annum 3

Avg salary (last 2 yrs) of all type of companies- Per Annum 11

Avg salary (last 2 yrs) of IT companies- Per Annum 2

Infrastructure Computer to students ratio 2

10

% of computers connected to internet 1

Hostel facility 0

% of students can be accomodate in hostel 1

Internet access in hostel 1

% P IV / latest configuration 1

% of students having access to computer 0

Internet access to computer labs 1

Batch strength for UG Course in Final year exams 0

Batch strength for PG Course in Final 2

Offering post graduation program course in engineering 0

Availability of Digital/Network in-campus library 1

Academic Environment

Faculty/Students ratio 4

20

% of permanent faculty 3

% of visiting faculty 0

% of Permanent Faculty with PHD 4

Number of Patent obtained by the institute 3

Batch strength of PhD course in engineering discipline by institute

2

% of students passed in first attempt 0

% of students passed with first division in BE/BTech Degree 2

Avg no of research papers in last two years 2

Industry Interface

Number of MoU signed by the industry 2

5

Avg no of assigments in last two years 2

Affiliation or linkages 1

Total-Institute response (out of 75) 75

Total-hR Response 25

The qualITy of sTudenTs froM These new and eMergIng engIneerIng colleges whIch coMe In all naMes wITh sTrong regIonal polITIcal affInITIes need To be closely MonITored for qualITy and TheIr overall acadeMIc credenTIals and TheIr IndusTry accredITaTIons need To be Taken InTo consIderaTIon

trophy with average annual salary ranging in the `7 lakh while NITs managed to get around an average salary of `5 lakh annually.

Industry InterfaceThis parameter is increasingly be-coming a USP for non-IITs which are walking the extra mile to forge closer ties with the industry. For instance NITK Surathkal took the #1 spot in this parameter and oth-er names like Faculty of Science and Technology, ICFAI University and Harcourt Butler Technological Institute signify the growing clout these institutes have on Industry Interface. Experts believe that closer ties the institutes forge with the industry will augur well for them as they can leverage the industry’s expertise in many ways and increase the opportunities for the students.

OutlookAt the end of the day, looking back at the survey findings some are on expected lines and some findings point to the new and changing equa-tions. For instance as the debate on delivering quality technology education gets louder, even IITs are not spared in those debate and it applies to all. Moreover if we look at some of the key parameters like placement and industry interface, one can see shifts happening there and names like IIIT, Hyderabad which topped in placements and NITK Surathkal which topped in Industry Interface certainly drives home the stiff competition emerging for IITs from these fronts. The good news is such competition will usher in new benchmarks on quality and open up new development platforms. With pointers like these one hopes that the overall quality of technol-ogy education in the country will leapfrog in the years to come. n

Shrikanth [email protected]

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Leader Shows the Way Knowledge is the supreme

goal says the ‘motto’ of one of India’s most re-vered and hallowed in-

stitutes of engineering, IIT Bombay. As part of this vision, to promote knowledge and not just rote learn-ing, the institute has been following the ‘liberal’ approach, including their programs too. For the under-grad students, the institute has come out with a liberal approach to ease off the pressure to earn the maxi-mum credits. As per this approach, students can earn their basic degree with lesser credits (the minimum now is 252 credits) and choose the course of their liking to allow them to graduate with a major degree and a minor degree in a subject of their choice. On the one hand, there are more than 15 minor courses being

offered. On the other hand, students who do not wish to work for any mi-nor degree can simply shop around for a mixed bag of subjects. Every year, the institute launches around 5-10 new courses based on the cur-rent favorites, thereby leading to a huge basket of electives.

Perhaps, it is this liberal ap-proach that has made IIT Bombay one of the most sought-after destina-tions for the UG and PG studies, thus attracting the top performers in JEE. For instance, in JEE 2011, 70 of the top 100 rankers have joined the institute and this includes 8 of the top 10 JEE rank holders. In 2011, the institute has awarded 1,846 degrees and 173 PhD de-grees.

The institute, a pioneer in many respects, launched 2 new dual

degree programs—MTech and PhD and MSc and MTech (4-year course) in order to increase their research component.

Keeping in mind the increasing needs of the growing student base, new hostels and faculty accommo-dation are being made and a new lecturer hall complex is already operational.

Shaking off the recession blues, the institute’s placement season attracted 250 organizations with over 950 job offers being made through on-campus and pre-place-ment offers. Interestingly, more than two-thirds of the students opted for science, engineering, and technol-ogy oriented jobs. A vertical-wise dissection of the companies visited shows that the finance sector was a major recruiter offering more than 90 offers followed closely by man-agement consulting, wherein 20 such companies visited and over 90 offers were made in the manage-ment consulting sector. Besides 37 students, several with doctoral degrees were also offered jobs in education. n

Scores over the Years

Year 2009 2010 2011

Rank 1 1 1

Parameters Total Weights Score Ranks

Placement 40 28.6 2

Infrastructure 10 8.6 1

Academic Environment 20 11.7 4

Industry Interface 5 3.5 4

RANK

1

Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

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IIT Delhi slipped down by one place to rank #3, perhaps one can blame it on its low rating in placement param-

eter. Nevertheless, IIT Delhi is geared up for a massive exercise of renewal and expansion in its golden jubilee year. Its consistent efforts in obtaining additional land for its future expansion are finally yield-ing fruit and the Haryana Govern-ment has agreed to allot 100 acres of land in the NCR region to IIT Delhi.

On an Expansion Spree

In FY11, 27 new regular fac-ulty members were appointed and `175 lakh allocated to encourage development in research facili-ties. In April 2011, 6 new projects worth `79 lakh were sponsored by international organizations and 285 new projects worth `43.68 crore were sponsored by national organizations. Meanwhile, a PhD program under the National Resource Center for Value Educa-tion in Engineering (NRCVEE) was undertaken. The institute has

also set up a Curriculum Review Committee to look into the courses and syllabus for UG programs in view of changed circumstances and aspiration of students. With all such efforts in academia, no wonder it ranked #3 in academic environment parameter. Even in industry interface parameter, the institute faired very well—8 MoUs signed with international universi-ties/corporate/government and 2 with national. n

Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

Scores over the Years

Year 2009 2010 2011

Rank 2 2 3

Parameters Total Weights Score Ranks

Placement 40 23.0 12

Infrastructure 10 7.4 3

Academic Environment 20 13.4 3

Industry Interface 5 3.7 3

RANK

3

Scores over the Years

Year 2009 2010 2011

Rank 3 4 2

The year was identified by IIT Madras as the year of bridging knowl-edge with industry. The

institute invested in setting up various research centers includ-ing the well-known university-level research park that has got around 31 companies focusing on R&D across different branches of engineering and management.

The institute got 2 major sanctions (upto `50 crore) to set up a multi-disciplinary virtual center for study

Connecting Knowledge with Industry

and research on combustion involving participation from aerospace, me-chanical, chemical engineering; and a virtual project focused on nano-electronic study for manufacturing en-gineering. Currently there are around 1,484 PhD students, 963 MTech students, and around 698 students pursuing MS in research, respectively. IITM plans to increase the faculty from 480 to 600 in the next couple of years. It invested `8.5 crore for the journals and `1.4 crore in books. These initiatives get reflected on the

overall ranking in placement, where after a flat year, it saw an increase jumping up to the third position from 11th in 2010. Around 252 companies visited campus last year.

Interestingly, the college follows a 10-year vision plan. While 2001-10 was about focusing on research and development works, 2011-20 would be the time for industry part-nerships focusing towards industry-oriented research apart from the fundamental research, and building a robust team. n

Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

RANK

2

Parameters Total Weights Score Ranks

Placement 40 23.0 5

Infrastructure 10 5.8 11

Academic Environment 20 7.9 22

Industry Interface 5 3.1 16

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IIIT-Hyderabad has really put in efforts to maintain a unique position among the top 5 T-schools of India.

Notable fact is that now it has been accredited at Grade A by NAAC, for a period of 5 years, in effect from September 2011. Parameters like 100% niche placement, world class faculty, and high-quality research projects have actually contributed to the overall increase in the scores of the institute over the years. It ranks #1 in terms of

Sustained Performance

placement among all the T-schools surveyed.

This year more than 40% of undergrad students have proac-tively opted for research programs in 2011. For the record, 8 industry MoUs, 26 industry-funded consul-tancy projects, and 70 government-funded projects have been signed in 2010-11.

In continuation of its focus on Computational Linguistics, IIIT-H has introduced dual degree trans-disciplinary programs, 5-year

courses in which undergraduate students of computer science can opt for humanities, linguistics, and natural sciences in their third year.

One of the major initiatives has been the 30% increase in its annual intake at undergraduate level from 185 to 240 from the academic ses-sion of 2011. So the infrastructure also has been upgraded accordingly including an amphitheater and 2 new research centers in the campus. n

Indian Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad

Scores over the Years

Year 2009 2010 2011

Rank 7 5 5

Parameters Total Weights Score Ranks

Placement 40 30.0 1

Infrastructure 10 5.8 10

Academic Environment 20 10.2 8

Industry Interface 5 3.2 9

RANK

5

IIT Kharagpur’s sweet spot is its academic environment in which it’s the undisputed leader this time and that’s an

impressive escalation given that the same parameter was a pain area the previous year. However its overall rank slipped to #4 due to the key concern areas related to param-eters like industry interface and placements. On the positive side, it significantly bettered its scores on infrastructure, for instance, the rollout of campus wide optical fiber

Time to Introspect

network that would be completed by March 2012.

Its impressive #1 rank on academic environment reinforces its commitment to broad base on its disciplines and in line with that it has launched 2 new 4-year PG programs in water management and entrepreneurship management. In addition, it has also established a research center for bio-energy and is also ramping up its hostel facilities (men & women) and staff quarters.

On the research front, it secured a good deal of government/corpo-rate-funded research projects and also upped its industry/academia collaborations.

While it continues to place the bulk (almost 100%) of students, it needs to focus on the quality as well. In terms of recruitment diver-sity, 35% was picked up by the IT companies, 30% by the core indus-tries, and the rest preferred teaching and academic roles. n

Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

Scores over the Years

Year 2009 2010 2011

Rank 1 2 4

Parameters Total Weights Score Ranks

Placement 40 25.3 7

Infrastructure 10 6.1 6

Academic Environment 20 15.7 1

Industry Interface 5 0.4 82

RANK

4

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BITS Pilani took a lot of new initiatives towards research and infrastruc-ture which positively

impacted its ranking. The institute follows long-term vision roadmaps with short-term goals and a grand vision for 2020. This strategy clearly gives it a phased approach to realize its goals and objectives. Augment-ing infrastructure indeed topped the institute’s agenda—initiatives like the deployment of an open standards based Oracle’s People-

Raising the Bar

Soft Enterprise Applications with an aim to automate its academic and administrative functions—will significantly up its operations effi-ciency. It has also earmarked around `400 crore for a complete uplift of its infrastructure. The institute, with all these initiatives and investments, intends to transit into a seat of more advanced learning with strong research and multidisciplinary orientation.

While BITS Pilani received good scores on placement and academic

environment, it needs to further up the ante in parameters like industry interface. While students get ample industry exposure right from the beginning, while comparing it to the others at the top, it has some scope for improvement. Interestingly, the institute has more than 200 industry collaborations and some feel that needs to be utilized to its fullest po-tential. Also, many feel the institute needs more innovation labs—like the ones it has with Motorola and HM. n

Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

Scores over the Years

Year 2009 2010 2011

Rank 8 9 6

Parameters Total Weights Score Ranks

Placement 40 25.0 8

Infrastructure 10 5.3 26

Academic Environment 20 9.5 11

Industry Interface 5 3.0 32

RANK

6

Bettering its performance from the previous year, IIT Guwahati’s scores across parameters reflect

the concerted attempts it has taken for overall improvement—whether it’s academics, infrastructure, or research. However, one of the issues that has pained IIT Guwahati consistently is attracting quality faculty, owing to its remote location. Three substan-tial initiatives to plug that lacunae, widen opportunities, and tap talent from within the institute were taken.

Getting Better

These are: allowing undergraduates to opt for research programs from their third year; dual degree programs; and programs like the one that allows an undergraduate student to get a degree in any branch of engineering along with a minor degree.

The institute considers itself young and vibrant in spirit, so it realizes the importance of regular addition and innovation in infra-structure and quality of research projects. On an average it spends `80-90 crore per year on infrastruc-

tural development and earns `40 crore per year from various ongoing and new research projects.

This year, 2010-11, it has signed 88 new sponsored projects (worth `37 crore) and 9 MoUs (7 with foreign institutions and 2 with TCS and Wipro).

IIT Guwahati has fared worse than last year in terms of placement. So, it needs to proactively take initiatives to increase its industry interface to ensure better absorption in the years to come. n

Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati

Scores over the Years

Year 2009 2010 2011

Rank 6 8 7

Parameters Total Weights Score Ranks

Placement 40 24.3 10

Infrastructure 10 6.8 4

Academic Environment 20 10.4 7

Industry Interface 5 1.3 74

RANK

7

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The long pending conver-sion of IT-BHU to IIT-BHU, seems to be coming closer to becoming a

reality, with the Lok Sabha giving its nod earlier this year. The Institutes of Technology (Amendment) Bill 2011 is now pending for approval in the Rajya Sabha and is expected to be cleared soon.

Given this backdrop as we look at the survey findings, except for placement parameters (the

Raring to Go

institute says that there are no placement issues and it continues to place the bulk of them) which went down a bit, however on other parameters the institute has either retained or bettered its position compared to last year. For instance its rank on infrastructure and industry went up, while it retained its place in academic environment. Some of the infrastructure scaling up initiatives it embarked over the year include ones like the expan-

sion of hostel facilities, putting in place 10 Gbps network connectiv-ity among others.

Looking ahead, the institute is pinning its hopes that its conver-sion to IIT-BHU happens soon and that it will attain a new found status and will join the league of elite IITs. Moreover this new status as an IIT will help the institute to attract and garner more funds for its academic and research activities. n

Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University

Scores over the Years

Year 2009 2010 2011

Rank 10 7 8

Parameters Total Weights Score Ranks

Placement 40 22.1 14

Infrastructure 10 5.7 15

Academic Environment 20 10.9 5

Industry Interface 5 3.3 6

RANK

8

A lot has been happen-ing at NITK Surathkal; it introduced 2 new PG courses—MTech in Nano

Technology and MTech in Me-chatronics with 15 and 27 students admitted in both courses, respec-tively, taking the total to 28 PG programs. The student intake saw a marginal increase (the NRI student intake increased to 83).

It enhanced its research capabili-ties by hiking its research budget to `25 crore this year across 70

Spending for the Future

research projects. The institute also ramped up its infrastructure, spending close to `166 crore on new infrastructure; it plans to spend `50 crore more.

There has been a significant increase in the number of tie-ups too as NITK inked 5 international MoUs and 6 national MoUs with Bengaluru based CPRI and MRPL, Alstom, CMTI.

For the students, FY11 was a fantastic year as the UG placements touched the 97% mark and PG

placements touched 65% wherein the MCA program saw 100% place-ments. The number of visiting com-panies too saw an upswing—in the first 6 months of 2011 itself, there have been 150 company visits.

This year it’s seeing the rollout of the phase 2 of the Technical Educa-tion Quality Improvement project, the total financial outplay is `12.5 crore. The institute also plans to set up 6 inter-disciplinary Centers of Excellence, which will attract further funding of `5 crore. n

National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal

Scores over the Years

Year 2009 2010 2011

Rank 9 11 9

Parameters Total Weights Score Ranks

Placement 40 21.7 17

Infrastructure 10 5.8 9

Academic Environment 20 8.1 19

Industry Interface 5 5 1

RANK

9

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This time, Netaji Subhash Institute of Technology managed to move up one place to the rank #10,

securing a place in the list of Top 10 T-schools. Placements ensured that NSIT received all the attention. It attributes its impressive perform-ance to its ability to attract the top rankers of AIEEE in admissions, excellent educational programs and academic trainings, adequate em-phasis on extra-curricular activities, excellent performance of alumni in

Well Placed

major MNCs and PSUs, and its high standing among the major recruiters within the country and abroad.

NSIT has 30 positions of Teach-ing-cum-Research Fellowships (TRF) for PhD students but are very particular in selecting them, hence sometimes there is a shortfall. This could be one of the reasons for its poor performance in the academic environment parameter. Neverthe-less, a number of faculty members completed their PhD, several of them were sponsored to attend and

present their research papers in various international conferences, and a number of them went abroad as visiting faculty with their coun-terparts for a short-term program of collaborative research. As far as infrastructure is concerned, several new labs were created last year. In spite of low rankings in few param-eters, NSIT managed to climb up to the Top 10 list and the placement statistics certainly justifies its high rank. n

Netaji Subhash Institute of Technology

Scores over the Years

Year 2009 2010 2011

Rank 17 11 10

Parameters Total Weights Score Ranks

Placement 40 23.0 5

Infrastructure 10 5.8 11

Academic Environment 20 7.9 22

Industry Interface 5 3.1 16

RANK

10

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Institutes Rank

ABES Engineering college , Ghaziabad 66ABV IIIT and Management, Gwalior 22Amity School of Engineering and Technology 13Amrita School of Engineering 27Anand Egineering College 78Army Institute of Technology (AIT) 42B I T Sindri 52B. S. Abdur Rahman University 37Babu Banarsi Das Institute of Technology 58Bannari Amman Institute of Technology 47Bharati Vidypeeth Deemed University, College of Engineering 35Birla Institute of Technology 11Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani 6Birla Vishvakarma Mahavidyalaya 77BNM Institute of Technology 36College of Engineering, Pune 16College of Engineering, Trivandrum 28DA Institute of Information Communication Technology (DA-IICT), Gandhinagar

14

DAV Institute of Engineering and Technology, Jalandhar 73Dehradun Institue of Technology 41Delhi institute of Technology and Management 98Delhi Technological University 12Dr. MGR Education And Research Institute 89Easwari Engineering College 55Faculty if Science and technology, ICFAI, University 81G H Patel Collaege of Engineering & Technology 84G. Pulla Reddy Engineering College 94Galgotias College of Engineering and Technology 39Ganesh Lal Bajaj Institute of Technology and Management 49Ghousia College of Engineering 96GMR Institute of Technology 45Government college of Engineering & ceramic Technology 65Govt. College of Engineeing , Amravati 68Govt. Model Engineering College 54Harcout Butler Technological Institute 32Heritage Institute of Technology, Kolkata 56Hindustan Collegeo of Science & Technology 61Hindustan Institute of Technology & Management 70IIT Bombay 1IIT Delhi 3IIT Kharagpur 4IIT Madras 2Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati 7Institue of Technology , Nirma University 26Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University 8International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderbad 5J. B. Institute of Engineering & Technology 85Jawaharlal Nehru Nehru National college of Engg. 75Kamaraj College of Engineering and Technology 86Kasegaon Education Societ’s, Rajarambapu Insttute of Technology 67Konark Institute of Science and technology 99

Institutes Rank

KS Institute of Technology 100M V J college of Engineering 83MAER’S MIT College of Engineering 74Maharaja Agrasen Institute of Technology 25Maharaja Surajmal Institute Of Technology 44Marathwada Institute of Technology, Aurangabad 92Mepco Schlenk Engineering College , Sivakasi 33Motilal Nehru Institute of Engineeting, Allahabad 20National Institute of Technology Agartala 63National Institute of Technology karnataka Surathkal 9National Institute of Technology Rourkela 18National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli 17National Institute of Technology Warangal 15National Institute of Technology, Jamshedpur 23National Institute of Technology, Patna 71National institute of Technology, Silchar 31Netaji Subhash Institute of Technology 10New Horizon college of Enginering 40NIT KURUKSHETRA 60Oriental Institute of Science and Technology 43Orissa Engineering College 48Panimalar Enineering Colleg 53PDPM indian Institute of information Technology, Design & Manufacturing

69

PES College of Engineering 88PES Insitute of Technology (PESIT) 30Rajagiri School of Engineering and Technology 46Rajalakshmi Engineering College 64RCC Institute of Information Technology 79Rungta College of Engineering & Technology 38Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology 21Sir M. Visvesvaraya Institute of Technology 34SJB Institute of Technology 62Smt. Kamala and Sri.venkappa M Agadi College of Engineering and Technology

93

Sona College of Technology 59Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering & Technology 76Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering, Tirupati 87SSN College of Engineering 24Textile & Engineering Istitute ‘Rajwada” Inst. 97Thakural College of Technology 51Thapar University Patiala 19Thiagarajar College of Engineering 50Trident Academy of Technology 57Turba Institute of engineering and information Technology 72University College of Engineering 90University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering 95Vel Tech Multi Tech Dr. Rangarajan Dr. Sakunthala Engineering College

91

Velagapudi Ramakrishna Sidhhartha Engineering College 82Vemana Institute of Technology 80West Bengal University of Technology 29