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Cover Story EW India Private Engineering Colleges Rankings 2020-21

and development training. Our ‘do
engineering’ curriculum pioneered
immersive industry internships for
students, and faculty-industry inter-
face through work integrated learning
processes. We are not content with
topping the annual EW rankings. Our
goal is to be ranked among the world’s
Top 500 higher education institutions
in the league tables of international
rating agencies such as QS and THE.
To this end we have launched our
Project Lakshya to enhance quality
across the five pillars of faculty de-
velopment, curriculum contempori-
sation, industry interface, sponsored
research and alumni connect,” says
Dr. Souvik Bhattacharyya, vice
chancellor of BITS-Pilani. An alum-
nus of Jadavpur, Cincinnati and Tex- MIT’s Srikanth Rao (right) with Manipal Group CEO Dr. Ranjan Pai: ambiguous reaction
as A&M universities. Bhattacharyya
served as vice chancellor of Jadavpur a substantial rearrangement of the sore universities, who signed up with
University, Kolkata and deputy direc- pecking order. Dhirubhai Am- MIT as a professor of mechanical en-
tor of IIT-Kharagpur, prior to taking bani Institute of Information gineering in 1989 and was promoted
charge at BITS-Pilani in 2016. & Communication Technology, to the office of director in 2018.
Beyond the Top 5 as well, there’s
Gandhinagar, has moved up to #3
C URIOUSLY ALTHOUGH the (#4 in 2019-20), PSG College of been a major rejig in the seating or-
der at the Top 10 table with several
Technology, Coimbatore to #4
top-ranked BITS-Pilani is
commonly acknowledged
to be on a par with the (5) jointly ranked with Vellore In- colleges rising in public esteem. The
RV College of Engineering, Ban-
stitute of Technology (3) which has
best IITs, in the Union HRD minis- ceded rank this year. The Manipal galore has improved its ranking to
try’s National Institutional Rankings Institute of Technology (6) and #6 (7), SSN College of Engineer-
Framework (NIRF) Top 100 engi- Thapar Institute of Engineer- ing, Kalavakkam to #7 (8), Shiv
neering institutes league table 2019, ing & Technology, Patiala (4) are Nadar University, Dadri (10) and
BITS-Pilani is ranked #25. Lower jointly ranked #5 this year. SASTRA University, Thanjavur
than the Institute of Chemical Tech- Dr. D. Srikanth Rao, director (11) are jointly ranked #8 with SRM
nology, Mumbai, Indian Institute of of the Manipal Institute of Technol- Institute of Science and Technol-
Engineering Science and Technol- ogy (MIT, estb.1956) — a constituent ogy, Chennai promoted to #9 (12).
ogy, Shibpur and National Institute institution of the top-ranked Manipal The Top 10 table is completed by
of Technology, Suratkal. Pressed to Academy of Higher Education — is JSS Mahavidyapeetha Sri Jaya-
comment, Bhattacharyya says “NIRF ambiguous about MIT’s #5 India and chamarajendra College of Engi-
is designed to assess traditional In- #1 Karnataka ranking. “I believe that neering, Mysore, ranked #15 last
dian universities.” MIT deserves higher ranking. Engi- year, at #9 and BMS College of En-
Be that as it may, in the field sur- neering education in MIT is experien- gineering, Bangalore (16) jointly
veys-based EW league table, for the tial, relevant and contemporary with ranked #10 with the Hindustan In-
third successive year, BITS-Pilani is our highly-qualified faculty focused stitute of Technology & Science,
followed by the low-profile Hyder- on developing industry-ready gradu- Chennai (25) which has made a great
abad-based International Insti- ates. It’s this combination of expe- leap forward this year.
tute of Information Technology riential curriculum tailored to meet Dr. Sandeep Sancheti, vice
(IIIT) with top scores on the param- changing industry needs which has chancellor of the SRM Institute of
eters of faculty competence, curricu- won us national recognition with our Science and Technology, Chen-
lum and pedagogy and placement. graduates readily snapped by higher nai (SRMIST) — awarded deemed
But while the status quo has been education institutions and corporates university status in 2001 — is pleased
maintained at the very top, further in India and around the world,” says with the improved #9 India ranking
down the league table there’s been Rao, an alumnus of Manipal and My- and especially with SRM’s #2 rank

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