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Cover Story EW India Private Engineering Colleges Rankings 2022-23

with other subjects in natural scienc-
es, linguistics and humanities. That’s
why our research-oriented graduates
are highly prized by academia and
industry. Though I am pleased that
our efforts on all parameters of en-
gineering education excellence have
been recognised and appreciated, I
am especially happy with our #1 rank
for faculty competence as it forms the
basis of achieving excellence in teach-
ing and research. Our faculty mem-
bers have doctorates from premier
Indian institutions such as the IITs
and IISc as well as top-ranked global
institutions such as Cornell, Prince-
ton, Tokyo universities. We also ben-
efit immensely from industry experts
as adjunct faculty. IIIT-H is commit-
ted to focusing on applied research MIT’s Anil Rana (second left): inter-disciplinary research & learning culture
in technology with special attention
to the use of computing and artifi- pal to be ranked among India’s Top tored by 653 full-time faculty.
cial intelligence to solve problems in 10 private engineering institutions The satisfaction of parachuting
healthcare, intelligent transportation, year after year. This is the outcome onto the EW Top 10 private engineer-
school education, etc,” says Naray- of our continuous efforts to upgrade ing colleges league table is greater
anan, an alum of IIT-Kharagpur and curriculums, invest in research and in the hitherto unranked Mahindra
the University of Maryland, and for- entrepreneurial initiatives, provide University Ecole Centrale School of
mer professor of robotics at Carnegie contemporary learner-centric infra- Engineering, Hyderabad (MUECSE),
Mellon University, USA, appointed structure and experiential learning which has debuted at #9. Promoted
director of IIIT-H in 2013. Currently, environments. Moreover, as a constit- in 2014 as Mahindra Ecole Centrale
this highly-reputed ICT institute has uent college of the Manipal Academy by automobiles major Mahindra
an enrolment of 1,928 students men- of Higher Education, recognised as an Group, the institute was subsumed
tored by 103 faculty. Institution of Eminence by the Union in 2020 within Mahindra University,
B EYOND THE TOP 5, provided a plethora of opportuni- Private Universities (Establishment
established by the Telangana State
education ministry, our students are
Manipal Institute of
ties to engage in interdisciplinary
& Regulation) Act, 2018. MUECSE
Technology
(MIT)
has inched up to #6 (#7 research and learning. This institu- boasts academic partnership with
tional culture explains our high scores
the highly-reputed Group of Ecole
in 2021-22) even as RV College of on the parameters of curriculum and Centrale (GEC) engineering institu-
Engineering, Bengaluru, at #7 pedagogy, industry interface, place- tions in France.
(6), has ceded a rank. SSN College ments and infrastructure,” says Cdr. “Our Top 10 debut is validation
of Engineering, Kalavakkam, (Dr.) Anil Rana, director, Manipal that we are on the right track for re-
Chennai and Shiv Nadar Univer- Institute of Technology, which has alising our objective of establishing
sity, Dadri are jointly ranked #8. Yet an enrolment of 9,552 students, men- a world-class engineering and tech-
the star of this year’s league table is nology school. Supported by faculty
the previously unranked Mahindra e star of this year’s drawn from leading Indian and global
University Ecole Centrale School league table is the institutions, global partnerships and
of Engineering, Hyderabad which industry-aligned curriculums, our
has debuted at #9. The Top 10 table is previously unranked mission is to graduate ‘new age engi-
completed by BMS College of En- Mahindra University neers’ ready to quickly transform into
gineering, Bengaluru (8) jointly future-ready leaders and entrepre-
ranked #10 with the Hindustan In- Ecole Centrale School of neurs trained in next-generation tech-
stitute of Technology & Science, Engineering, Hyderabad nologies. That’s why our focus is on
Chennai. interdisciplinary curriculums, entre-
“It’s an honour for MIT, Mani- which has debuted at #9 preneurial projects, disruptive new-

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