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Cover Story EW India Private Engineering Colleges Rankings 2020-21

Parameters of excellence: India’s Top 10

private engineering colleges

o provide readers, especially aspiring engineers, a Rank Faculty welfare &
comprehensive profile of India’s most respected development Rating
(200)
Tprivate engineering institutes, the Top 100 national 2017 2018 2019 2020
and state league tables are supplemented with Top 10 2 2 3 1 Birla Institute of Technology and Science
national rankings on the basis of parameters of excellence. (BITS), Pilani 182
To compile the national and state rankings, C fore field 3 3 4 2 International Institute of Information
researchers interviewed 1,063 faculty and 1,368 final year Technology (IIIT), Hyderabad 180
students of engineering institutes countrywide and 423 5 7 1 3 Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information &
industry representatives, asking them to rate engineering Communication Technology, Gandhinagar 178
institutes on nine parameters, viz, competence of faculty, 1 1 2 4 Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT) 174
faculty welfare and development, research and innovation, 9 10 10 5 SSN College of Engineering, Kalavakkam 173
curriculum and pedagogy, industry interface, placements 7 4 6 6 Thapar Institute of Engineering &
record, infrastructure and facilities, leadership/governance Technology, Patiala 172
quality and value for money. Further, the interviewees 6 6 5 7 Manipal Institute of Technology 169
were also asked to assign weightage to each parameter. 8 9 8 8 RV College of Engineering, Bangalore 168
The scores awarded by respondents under each parameter 4 4 7 9 PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore 167
were totaled for the purpose of final ratings and ranking. NR NR NR 9 Shiv Nadar University, Dadri 167
Unsurprisingly, the ‘competence of faculty’ parameter NR NR NR 10 SASTRA (Deemed University), Thanjavur 166
was assigned highest weightage (350) indicating that the NR NR NR 10 PES University, Bangalore 166
respondents believe that ability to attract and retain faculty
— dependent upon the faculty welfare and development
systems — is the most important criterion for assessing the IIIT-Hyderabad is ranked #1 on the
educational and research capability of engineering (and important parameters of faculty
other) institutions. Parameter rankings which highlight
the prime strengths of highly ranked institutions are useful competence and curriculum and
because they enable students to select institutions whose pedagogy
priorities dovetail with their own.
The national rankings of Top 10 colleges under all nine
parameters enumerated above, are set out below.
Rank Curriculum & pedagogy Rating
2017 2018 2019 2020 (250)
Rank Competence of faculty Rating
2017 2018 2019 2020 (350) 1 1 1 1 International Institute of Information 235

Technology (IIIT), Hyderabad
2 3 2 1 International Institute of Information 4 4 4 2 PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore 234
Technology (IIIT), Hyderabad 341 2 2 3 3 Birla Institute of Technology and Science
1 2 1 2 Birla Institute of Technology and (BITS), Pilani 233
Science (BITS), Pilani 339 3 3 1 4 Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information &
5 5 2 3 Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information & Communication Technology, Gandhinagar 232
Communication Technology, Gandhinagar 338 6 7 8 4 Thapar Institute of Engineering &
3 4 4 4 Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT) 335 Technology, Patiala 232
7 7 6 5 Thapar Institute of Engineering & NR NR 6 5 Manipal Institute of Technology 231
Technology, Patiala 331 4 6 5 6 Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT) 228
4 1 5 6 PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore 320 7 8 7 7 RV College of Engineering, Bangalore 227
9 9 8 7 Manipal Institute of Technology 319 NR NR NR 7 JSS Science and Technology University,
6 6 7 8 RV College of Engineering, Bangalore 314 Mysore 227
8 8 9 9 SSN College of Engineering, Kalavakkam 313 9 9 8 8 SSN College of Engineering, Kalavakkam 226
NR NR NR 9 SASTRA (Deemed University), Thanjavur 313 NR NR NR 9 Shiv Nadar University, Dadri 225
NR NR NR 10 Shiv Nadar University, Dadri 312 NR NR NR 10 Amrita School of Engineering, Coimbatore 223

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