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INDIA’S TOP 200

PRIVATE ENGINEERING COLLEGES

Of India’s 5,868 engineering colleges and universities,
3,918 are privately promoted and managed. However only
50 percent of their graduates meet industry standards.
Therefore, aspiring engineers would be advised to
carefully study the EW league table of India’s best private
engineering institutions

Summiya Yasmeen

I ing colleges and universities that certify 1.5 1 Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani

F INDIA’S LARGE NUMBER OF 5,868 engineer-

million graduates annually, produced well-
educated, highly-qualified engineers, India
2
Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT)
would have become a developed nation with
globally comparable public infrastructure
Technology, Gandhinagar

several decades ago. However, the pathetic
International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT),
condition of the overwhelming majority of 2 Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information & Communication
3
the country’s roads, ports, bridges, railways, electric power Hyderabad
generation and distribution, water supply and waste dis- 4 PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore
posal enterprises etc, is standing testimony to poor-quality 5 Manipal Institute of Technology
engineering is technology education dispensed by India’s 5 RV College of Engineering, Bengaluru
engineering institutes.
Almost a decade ago, the globally-respected New York- 6 Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, Patiala
based consultancy McKinsey & Co and the Delhi-based re- 6 Mahindra University École Centrale School of Engineering,
cruitment firm Aspiring Minds generated shock waves in Hyderabad
India Inc by opining that 75-85 percent of India’s engineer- 7 SSN College of Engineering, Kalavakkam, Chennai
ing graduates were unemployable in foreign or Indian mul- 8 Shiv Nadar University, Greater Noida
tinationals. A decade later, the connect between India Inc 8 Hindustan Institute of Technology & Science, Chennai
and the ivory towers of Indian academia hasn’t improved. 9 BMS College of Engineering, Bengaluru
According to a Times of India report of late last year, of 10 SASTRA University, Thanjavur
the 1.5 million engineering graduates certified every year,

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