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BITS-Pilani’s Dr. Bhattacharyya (centre): EW #1 for fifth year but NIRF #25
gineering colleges to diversify from traditional disciplines Pvt. Ltd (C fore, estb.2000), the country’s premier mar-
such as electrical, mechanical, civil engineering to provide ket research and opinion polls company (which also con-
study programmes in new technologies such as artificial in- ducts the annual EducationWorld India School Rankings
telligence, robotics, quantum computing, data sciences etc. (estb.2007) and EW India Preschool Rankings (2010)),
Moreover, it called for eliminating faculty shortages and interviewed 1,063 faculty, 1,368 final year engineering
promoting greater academia-industry cooperation. Accept- students and 423 industry representatives countrywide.
ing the committee’s recommendations to freeze capacity These sample respondents were persuaded to rate engi-
with alacrity, in early February AICTE banned promotion neering institutes (of whom they had sufficient knowledge)
of greenfield engineering colleges for two years. on nine parameters of excellence, viz, faculty competence,
Against this gloomy backdrop, EducationWorld pres- placement, research and innovation, curriculum and peda-
ents its EducationWorld India Private Engineering Insti- gogy, industry interface, value for money, infrastructure,
tutes Rankings 2020-21 to enable higher secondary school faculty welfare, leadership and governance. The scores
leavers with engineering on their minds to pick and choose awarded by respondents under each parameter were to-
the most aptitudinally suitable private colleges for under- taled to rank the country’s Top 100 private engineering col-
grad education. Since 2016, EducationWorld has been ex- leges/institutes inter se. Low-profile institutions asssessed
cluding the heavily subsidised and routinely top-ranked by less than 25 respondents are not ranked.
Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and National Insti- Unsurprisingly, for the fifth year in succession the 2,854
tutes of Technology (NITs), preferring to evaluate and rank knowledgeable respondents polled by C fore have voted the
the country’s Top 100 private engineering colleges to en- Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS),
able the 98 percent of students who don’t make it into the Pilani (estb.1964) India’s #1 private engineering college/
top 2 percent of the 1.14 million school-leavers who write university (BITS-Pilani has been conferred deemed univer-
the IIT/NIT Joint Entrance Exam annually, to choose the sity status under s. 3 of the UGC Act. 1956).
most suitable among private institutions, some of which “We are delighted that your sample respondents have
are rapidly closing the IITs/NITs versus the rest gap. once again acknowledged BITS-Pilani as India’s #1 engi
To compile the EW India Private Engineering Institutes neering education institution. Our distinguishing feature is
Rankings (EWIPEIR) 2020-21, 150 field representatives that we provide industry-aligned education supplemented
of the Delhi-based Centre for Forecasting and Research with internships, trans-disciplinary learning and research

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