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EW INDIA HIGHER EDUCATION RANKINGS 2020-21
INDIA’S TOP 100 PRIVATE

ENGINEERING COLLEGES

To compile the EW India Private Engineering Institutes Rankings 2020-
21, 150 field representatives of the Delhi-based Centre for Forecasting
and Research Pvt. Ltd interviewed 1,063 faculty, 1,368 final year
engineering students and 423 industry representatives countrywide

Summiya Yasmeen
E facing an unprecedented over-supply 1 Birla Institute of Technology & Science (BITS), Pilani

NGINEERING EDUCATION IN INDIA IS
IIIT, Hyderabad
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and graduate unemployability crisis.
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Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of ICT, Gandhinagar
During the past five years, enrolments
in the country’s 3,415 engineering in-
PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore
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stitutions have nose-dived. In 2019, 50
percent of capacity in BE/B.Tech/M.
Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, Patiala
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Tech degree programmes countrywide 4 Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT)
was unutilised, and a mere 600,000 of the 1.5 million en- 5 Manipal Institute of Technology
gineering students who graduated last year were campus
recruited. Following this sharpest five-year fall in enrol- 6 RV College of Engineering, Bangalore
ments and 60 percent graduate unemployability, last year 7 SSN College of Engineering, Kalavakkam (Chennai)
the Delhi-based All India Council for Technical Education
(AICTE) — the apex regulatory body for technical educa- 8 Shiv Nadar University, Dadri
tion — constituted a special committee under the leader- 8 SASTRA Deemed University, Thanjavur
ship of Dr. B.V.R. Reddy, chairman of IIT-Hyderabad, to 9 SRM Institute of Science & Technology, Chennai
suggest ways and means to reform and revive engineering
education in India. 9 JSS Mahavidyapeetha Sri Jayachamarajendra
Identifying “low enrolment, lower placements and low College of Engineering, Mysore
employability” as the causes of this malaise, the Reddy 10 Hindustan Institute of Technology & Science, Chennai
Committee recommends that AICTE should not licence
any new engineering colleges until 2022 and encourage en- 10 BMS College of Engineering, Bangalore

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