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EW INDIA HIGHER EDUCATION RANKINGS 2023-24

INDIA’S TOP

PRIVATE ENGINEERING COLLEGES

Against the backdrop of Indian engineering education set to
experience a revival and overdue contemporisation of curriculums,
EducationWorld presents its EW India Private Engineering
Institutes Rankings 2023-24, to enable higher secondary school-
leavers to pick and choose the most aptitudinally suitable private
colleges for undergrad engineering education

Summiya Yasmeen

T HERE’S GOOD NEWS FOR ASPIRING 1 Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani

engineering students in India. The Del-
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International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT),
hi-based All India Council for Technical
Hyderabad

Education (AICTE), the apex regulato-
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Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information & Communication
ry organisation for all engineering and

Technology, Gandhinagar
technical institutions countrywide, has
lifted the moratorium on promotion of
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PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore
new engineering colleges following a 3 Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT)
two-year ban. In its new Approval Process Handbook 5 Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, Patiala
Mahindra University École Centrale School of Engineering,
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2023-24 released on March 23, the council states: “Mora- Hyderabad
torium for establishing new institution(s) in engineering
and technology has been lifted from AY (academic year) 6 RV College of Engineering, Bengaluru
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Manipal Institute of Technology
2023-24. However, for establishing a new institution in
engineering and technology, preference shall be given to 7 BMS College of Engineering, Bengaluru
the applicant offering courses in multi-disciplinary area 7 SSN College of Engineering, Kalavakkam, Chennai
in-line with NEP (National Education Policy) 2020 in 8 Birla Institute of Technology (BIT), Mesra
STEM.” Moreover, the council has also relaxed land eligi- 8 Shiv Nadar University, Dadri (UP)
bility norms for greenfield institutions. 9 Hindustan Institute of Technology & Science, Chennai
The backstory of the two-year moratorium is that in 9 SASTRA University, Thanjavur
2019, an expert committee had advised AICTE to impose 10 Amrita School of Engineering (Amrita Vishwa
a moratorium on promotion of greenfield engineering col- Vidyapeetham), Coimbatore
leges from the academic year 2020-21 due to declining stu- 10 Faculty of Engineering, PES University, Bengaluru
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