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Cover Story EW India Private University Rankings 2022-23

India’s top private engineering & technology

universities

Of the total number of
4,500 engineering colleges
in India, 3,415 are privately
promoted. And among
them, a large number have
been awarded the status of
universities because of their
high NAAC ratings and good
industry reputation

ngineering and technology
institutions of higher edu-
cation hold a special place BITS-Pilani's Dr. Souvik Bhattacharyya (centre left): multidisciplinary goal progress
Ein the imagination of post-
independence India’s several genera- been awarded the status of universi- ogy universities, it’s unsurprising that
tions. After prime minister Jawaharlal ties because of their high NAAC rat- these institutions are top-ranked in
Nehru famously declared dams and ings and good industry reputation. that order in the discrete league table
factories as the new temples of India, Since 2015, EducationWorld has been of private engineering universities.
and the Central and state govern- rating and ranking India’s best private With BITS-Pilani being awarded
ments began a massive infrastructure universities separately to enable the deemed university status way back in
construction and public sector corpo- great majority of school-leavers who 1964, although its engineering school
rations promotion programme un- don’t make the cut to enter the IITs was ranked second in the league table
der Soviet-inspired central planning, and NITs to choose the next-best op- of undergrad engineering institu-
there was a rush in the newly liberated tion. We also rank government/public tions published last month (April), in
middle class to sign up their children engineering colleges – excluding the the private engineering & technology
for engineering. heavily-subsidised IITs and NITs be- universities league table, BITS-Pilani
As a result a large number of en- cause they routinely top the league ta- University is top ranked.
gineering colleges including India’s bles of all media publications and also “This is because a university is
famous IITs (Indian Institutes of because as stated above, they admit a greater than its engineering school.
Technology) mushroomed across the very small percentage of school-leav- BITS-Pilani also hosts an excellent
country. But with the Central gov- ers aspiring for engineering higher business school and a department of
ernment-sponsored IITs and NITs education qualifications. humanities and social sciences,” ex-
(National Institutes of Technology) For several years, the Birla In- plains Premchand Palety, found-
admitting a mere 2 percent of the 1.3 stitute of Technology & Science, ing CEO of the Delhi-based Centre
million IIT aspirants who write the an- Pilani, Thapar Institute of Engi- for Forecasting & Research Pvt. Ltd
nual IIT-JEE entrance examination, neering & Technology, Patiala (Cfore, estb. 2000) which conducted
a multitude of privately promoted and Vellore Institute of Technol- the EW India Higher Education Rank-
engineering colleges have sprung up ogy (Tamil Nadu) have been highly ings (EWIHER) 2022-23 survey.
countrywide, especially in south India. ranked in the annual EWIHER. This “I am very pleased to learn that
Indeed of the total number of 4,500 year after classification of private BITS-Pilani has been adjudged In-
engineering colleges in the country, and public universities into separate dia’s premier private engineering and
3,415 are privately promoted. And league tables of multidisciplinary, technology university. Your decision
among them, a large number have liberal arts, engineering & technol- to rank private universities in separate

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