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Cover Story EW India Private Engineering Colleges Rankings 2021-22

& Communication Technol-
ogy, Gandhinagar jointly ranked
#3 with the Vellore Institute
of Technology. The latter has
improved upon its #4 ranking of
2020-21.
Dr. P.J. Narayanan, director
of IIIT-H (estb.1998), the country’s
first ICT (information communi-
cation technologies) engineering
college promoted under the public-
private partnership model, has no
complaints about this relatively
young institute’s #2 rank because
of its top scores and #1 rating under
the parameters of faculty compe-
tence, curriculum and pedagogy
(digital readiness), industry inter-
face and placements.
IIIT-Hyderabad’s Narayanan (centre): three parameters top score “We are satisfied to be ranked
India’s #2 engineering education
Pilani India’s #1 private faculty welfare and development be- institution in EducationWorld’s
engineering institution/university cause enhancing faculty productivity transparent and dependable na-
(BITS-Pilani was conferred deemed is a year-around activity in BITS-Pi- tional rankings. IIIT-Hyderabad is
university status under s.3 of the lani,” says Dr. Souvik Bhattacha- known for delivering research-led
UGC Act, 1956 in 1964) with top ryya, vice chancellor of BITS-Pilani, education starting at the undergrad-
scores under the parameters of an alumnus of Jadavpur, Cincinnati uate level, unprecedented in India.
faculty welfare and development, and Texas A&M universities, former This explains our top scores under
infrastructure, value for money and vice chancellor of Jadavpur Univer- the parameters of curriculum and
leadership/governance quality. sity, Kolkata and deputy director of pedagogy and industry interface.
“ I AM PROUD THAT BITS VC of BITS-Pilani in 2016. As usual that our high quality and dedicated
IIT-Kharagpur, who was appointed
Moreover it’s especially satisfying
Bhattacharyya modestly preferred
PILANI is ranked #1 for
teachers from around the world have
the sixth consecutive
ulty competence. Their expertise and
year. Our consistent good not to comment on BITS-Pilani’s top been awarded the best score for fac-
score — for the third year in suc-
performance is testament to the high cession — under the parameter of enthusiasm enabled the institute to
quality of education and research leadership and governance. transition smoothly to the online
we provide, our brilliant graduates At #2 for the fourth successive mode of education since the pan-
and the impact they make on our year is the low-profile Interna- demic forced shut down of education
nation and beyond. Over the past tional Institute of Informa- institutions last year. Our institu-
several years, 7,400 BITSians have tion Technology, Hyderabad tional goal is to be recognised among
promoted their own companies (IIIT-H) with Dhirubhai Am- the top IT research institutions
including six unicorns. Moreover, in bani Institute of Information globally. To this end we are creat-
the prestigious QS World University ing in-house models to facilitate
Subject Rankings 2021, BITS-Pilani For the sixth year in transformational research beyond
is ranked in nine subjects, with one succession knowledgeable the usual tech-transfer, start-up
of them in the World Top 200. I’m incubation, etc,” says Narayanan,
especially pleased about our top respondents have voted an alum of IIT-Kharagpur and the
scores under the parameter of in- BITS-Pilani — conferred University of Maryland, and former
frastructure because during the past professor of robotics at Carnegie
ten years we have invested more deemed university status Mellon University, USA, appointed
than Rs.1,300 crore for modernisa- in 1964 — India’s #1 private director of IIIT-H in 2013. Current-
tion and expansion of infrastructure engineering college/ ly, this highly-reputed ICT institute
at our Pilani, Goa, and Hyderabad has an enrolment of 1,863 students
campuses. Ditto our top score under university mentored by 101 faculty.

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