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EW INDIA HIGHER EDUCATION RANKINGS 2022-23
INDIA’S TOP 100 PRIVATE

ENGINEERING COLLEGES

The annual EW rankings deliberately exclude IITs and NITs from
our league tables to enable 98 percent of students who don’t make
it into these routinely top-ranked government institutes to choose
the most suitable among India’s 3,415 private engineering colleges

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Summiya Yasmeen TOP

TOP
I NTRODUCED IN 2013, THE ANNUAL Edu- 1 International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT),

cationWorld pan-India engineering college
Hyderabad
rankings league tables are sui generis and
1 Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT)
differentiated from the ranking of other
2 Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani
magazines and dailies including pink pa-
pers. Although initially for two years, the EW
Communication Technology, Gandhinagar
league tables included and ranked the Cen-
tral-government promoted Indian Institutes 3 Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information &
4 PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore
of Technology (IITs) and National Institutes of Technology 5 Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, Patiala
(NITs), in 2016 we excluded these highly-subsidised insti- 6 Manipal Institute of Technology
tutions because they routinely topped all league tables and
also because they admit a mere 2 percent of the 1.3 million 6 International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT),
class XII graduates who write the annual IIT/NIT Joint Bengaluru
Entrance Exam. Instead, the annual EW survey opted to 7 RV College of Engineering, Bengaluru
rate and rank the country’s private engineering colleges to 8 SSN College of Engineering, Kalavakkam, Chennai
enable 98 percent of students who don’t make it into the 8 Shiv Nadar University, Dadri (UP)
IITs/NITs to choose the most suitable among India’s 3,415 9 Mahindra University École Centrale School of
non-government engineering colleges, some of whom are Engineering, Hyderabad
closing the IITs/NITs versus the rest gap. 10 BMS College of Engineering, Bengaluru
To compile the EW India Private Engineering Institutes
Rankings (EWIPEIR) 2022-23, the Delhi-based Centre 10 Hindustan Institute of Technology & Science, Chennai

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