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EW INDIA HIGHER EDUCATION RANKINGS 2024-25

INDIA’S TOP

Although it is commonly accepted that the IITs and NITs provide the
best engineering undergrad education, since they admit a mere 2-3
percent of aspirant school-leavers, the public interest is better served
by ranking undergrad private engineering colleges which constitute 70
percent of all engineering institutions countrywide

Dilip Thakore

I institutions — especially the older six IITs 1 Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani

NDIA’S ENGINEERING HIGHER EDUCATION

(Indian Institutes of Technology) — are the
country’s pride and joy. The IITs whose
2
International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT),
Hyderabad

number has grown to 23 in recent years are
renowned worldwide because several dozen
CEOs including Google’s Sundar Pichai are
Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information & Communication
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IIT graduates as are numerous start-up 3 Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT)

Technology, Gandhinagar
founders in Silicon Valley, California. 5 PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore
Curiously, most economists and academia pundits see 5 Manipal Institute of Technology
nothing amiss in planeloads of IIT graduates -- whose 6 Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, Patiala
education in these premier institutes of engineering and 6 RV College of Engineering, Bengaluru
technology is heavily subsidised by taxpayers (including
poor villagers) — migrating abroad. The annual exodus 7 Mahindra University École Centrale School of Engineering,

Hyderabad
of IIT grads is viewed with cool equanimity by them. 7 SSN College of Engineering, Kalavakkam, Chennai
Their rationale is that the dollar remittances of emigres 8 BMS College of Engineering, Bengaluru
to families in India and exchanges with their counter- 8 Hindustan Institute of Technology & Science, Chennai
parts in academia — even perhaps their eventual return
back home — may well become a “brain gain” for India. 9 Shiv Nadar University, Greater Noida (UP)
The option of taking the hard road and devising policies 10 Amrita School of Engineering (Amrita Vishwa
and creating conducive conditions to plug this massive Vidyapeetham), Coimbatore
brain drain from the country is seldom entertained, 10 Birla Institute of Technology (BIT), Mesra
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