India’s

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colleges C OV E R STO RY THE INDIA TODAY-NIELSEN SURVEY

TOP 25 ENGINEERING RANKING ON THEMES

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1 3 Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 100
2 1 Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 9 5. 7 3
3 4 Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai 4 3 4 4 4 4 3 90.36
4 2 Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur 5 5 5 5 5 5 6 85.52
5 5 Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay 3 4 3 3 3 3 17 82.45
6 6 Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee 6 6 6 6 6 6 3 81 . 0 3
7 7 Birla Institute of Technology and Sciences, Pilani 9 8 9 9 8 9 7 49.93
8 10 Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore 12 12 12 11 12 12 1 4 5. 53
9 9 Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati 10 10 8 9 10 10 12 44.60
10 11 National Institute of Technology, Surathkal 8 9 10 8 8 8 13 44.30
11 8 Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi 7 7 7 7 7 7 29 41.79
12 17 National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirapally 11 11 11 11 11 11 16 39.24
13 15 Delhi Technical University (formerly DCE), Delhi 13 14 14 13 13 14 8 35.21
14 13 National Institute of Technology, Warangal 14 14 15 15 14 15 13 30.30
15 18 Netaji Subhash Institute of Technology, Delhi 18 18 19 18 19 19 9 29.80
16 16 International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad 14 13 13 13 14 13 17 29.10
NEW 17 - Thapar University (formerly TIET), Patiala 19 18 17 17 17 18 15 26.29
18 19 Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad 17 17 20 18 18 17 17 24.97
NEW 19 - Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad 16 16 16 16 16 16 24 23.83
NEW 20 - Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad 25 26 26 25 25 26 10 23.13
NEW 21 - National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra 30 27 29 28 27 28 11 22.02
NEW 22 - Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, Surat 22 21 22 21 24 24 20 20.77
23 14 PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore 20 18 17 20 19 20 25 20.71
24 25 Nirma Institute of Technology, Ahmedabad 26 25 25 25 26 25 22 18.38
NEW 25 - BMS College of Engineering, Bangalore 27 28 28 30 27 30 20 18.31
Overall ranks are based on perceptual and factual scores, not on perceptual and factual ranks. Therefore, the overall rank of a college may differ from its perceptual and factual ranks. Faculties were not considered. NEW New entrants

INSIGHT a 3.5-kg nanosatellite, which was handed over to the ISRO

in March this year. Director Sanjay G. Dhande calls these
Sanjay G. Dhande successes a result of the institute’s passion to excel in the
Director, Indian Institute of Technology-Kanpur field of teaching, research and innovation. “While main-
“We don’t fear foreign taining our excellent undergraduate programmes, we
want to scale new heights in our research and postgrad-
institutions coming here. uate programmes. We are very keen to use technical
Before these universities developments for the benefit of society.”
are allowed in India, we The undergraduate courses offered here have the
reputation of being the toughest in the country. Professor
would be setting our Nalinaksh S. Vyas, head, department of mechanical engi-
feet in some countries, neering and nuclear engineering and technology
including the US.” programme, IIT-Kanpur, however, believes that under-
graduate education in the country is predominantly
faculty dependent and to overcome faculty shortage, it
Institute at Agricultural Gardens in Kanpur with just 100 should be made branchless. Compulsory course content
students, but today, in its golden jubilee year, it has 4,500 should involve fundamental and generic courses from
students with the student-teacher ratio being 10:1. In all basic streams and the student should be allowed to
affirmation of its commitment to excellence are its choose his/her area of specialisation in specific
mechanical and nuclear engineering and technology areas but only at the postgraduate level. The quality
departments which were instrumental in designing Jugnu, of research here is exemplary. They have undertaken

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