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Cover Story EW India Private Engineering Colleges Rankings 2022-23

Parameters of excellence: India’s Top 10

private engineering colleges

o provide readers, especially aspiring engineers, a Rank Competence of faculty Rating
comprehensive profile of India’s most respected 2019 2020 2021 2022 (350)
Tprivate engineering institutes, the Top 100 national
and state league tables are supplemented with Top 10 2 1 1 1 International Institute of Information 339
Technology (IIIT), Hyderabad

national rankings on the basis of parameters of excellence. 1 2 2 2 Birla Institute of Technology and Science
To compile the national and state rankings, C fore field (BITS), Pilani 336
researchers interviewed 1,136 faculty and 1,288 final year 2 3 3 3 Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information &
students of engineering institutes countrywide and 469 Communication Technology, Gandhinagar 333
industry representatives, asking them to rate engineering 4 4 4 4 Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT) 332
institutes on nine parameters, viz, competence of faculty, 5 6 8 5 PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore 330
faculty welfare and development, research and innovation, 6 5 6 6 Thapar Institute of Engineering &
curriculum and pedagogy (digital readiness), industry Technology, Patiala 327
interface, placements record, infrastructure, leadership and NR NR NR 6 International Institute of Information
value for money. Further, the interviewees were also asked Technology (IIIT), Bengaluru 327
to assign weightage to each parameter. The scores awarded 8 7 9 7 Manipal Institute of Technology 325
by respondents under each parameter were totaled for the 7 8 10 8 RV College of Engineering, Bengaluru 323
purpose of final ratings and ranking. 9 9 5 9 SSN College of Engineering, Kalavakkam,
Unsurprisingly, the ‘competence of faculty’ parameter Chennai 321
was assigned highest weightage (350) indicating that NR NR 7 10 Shiv Naar University, Dadri 320
the respondents believe that ability to attract and retain
faculty is the most important criterion for assessing the
educational and research capability of engineering (and
other) institutions. Parameter rankings which highlight
the prime strengths of highly ranked institutions are useful
because they enable students to select institutions whose
priorities dovetail with their own.
The national rankings of Top 10 colleges under all nine Rank Faculty welfare & Rating
parameters enumerated above, are set out below. 2019 2020 2021 2022 development (200)
4 2 2 1 International Institute of Information
Technology (IIIT), Hyderabad 184
2 4 4 2 Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT) 183
3 1 1 3 Birla Institute of Technology and Science
VIT chancellor Dr. G. Viswanathan (left): research & innovation #1 (BITS), Pilani 182
1 3 3 4 Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information &
Communication Technology, Gandhinagar 180
7 9 5 5 PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore 178
NR NR NR 5 Birla Institute of Technology and Science
(BITS), Pilani, Hyderabad Campus 178
6 6 6 6 Thapar Institute of Engineering &
Technology, Patiala 177
NR NR NR 7 International Institute of Information
Technology (IIIT), Bengaluru 176
5 7 9 8 Manipal Institute of Technology 175
8 8 8 9 RV College of Engineering, Bengaluru 174
NR NR NR 9 Birla Institute of Technology and Science
(BITS), Pilani, KK Birla Goa Campus 174
10 5 5 10 SSN College of Engineering, Kalavakkam,
Chennai 173
NR NR 10 10 BMS College of Engineering, Bengaluru 173

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