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Cover Story EW India Private Engineering Colleges Rankings 2021-22

Parameters of excellence: India’s Top 10

private engineering colleges

o provide readers, especially aspiring engineers, a Rank Curriculum & pedagogy
comprehensive profile of India’s most respected Rating
Tprivate engineering institutes, the Top 100 national 2018 2019 2020 2021 (digital readiness) (250)
and state league tables are supplemented with Top 10 1 1 1 1 International Institute of Information
national rankings on the basis of parameters of excellence. Technology (IIIT), Hyderabad 233
To compile the national and state rankings, C fore field 4 4 2 2 PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore 232
researchers interviewed 1,018 faculty and 1,126 final year 2 3 3 3 Birla Institute of Technology and Science
students of engineering institutes countrywide and 379 (BITS), Pilani 231
industry representatives, asking them to rate engineering 7 8 4 4 Thapar Institute of Engineering &
institutes on nine parameters, viz, competence of faculty, Technology, Patiala 230
faculty welfare and development, research and innovation, 6 5 6 4 Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT) 230
curriculum and pedagogy (digital readiness), industry 3 1 4 5 Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information &
interface, placements record, infrastructure and facilities, Communication Technology, Gandhinagar 229
leadership and value for money. Further, the interviewees 8 7 7 5 RV College of Engineering, Bengaluru 229
were also asked to assign weightage to each parameter. The NR 6 5 6 Manipal Institute of Technology 227
scores awarded by respondents under each parameter were NR NR NR 6 BMS College of Engineering, Bengaluru 227
totaled for the purpose of final ratings and ranking. 9 8 8 7 SSN College of Engineering,
Unsurprisingly, the ‘competence of faculty’ parameter Kalavakkam, Chennai 226
was assigned highest weightage (350) indicating that NR NR 7 8 JSS Mahavidyapeetha Sri

Jayachamarajendra College of
the respondents believe that ability to attract and retain Engineering, Mysuru 225
faculty is the most important criterion for assessing the NR NR NR 9 SASTRA University, Thanjavur 224
educational and research capability of engineering (and NR NR 9 10 Shiv Nadar University, Dadri 223
other) institutions. Parameter rankings which highlight
the prime strengths of highly ranked institutions are useful
because they enable students to select institutions whose
priorities dovetail with their own.
The national rankings of Top 10 colleges under all nine
parameters enumerated above, are set out below.
Rank Competence of faculty
Rank Faculty welfare & Rating 2018 2019 2020 2021 Rating
(350)
2018 2019 2020 2021 development (200) 3 2 1 1 International Institute of Information

2 3 1 1 Birla Institute of Technology and Science Technology (IIIT), Hyderabad 339
(BITS), Pilani 179 2 1 2 2 Birla Institute of Technology and Science
3 4 2 2 International Institute of Information (BITS), Pilani 337
Technology (IIIT), Hyderabad 177 5 2 3 3 Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information &
7 1 3 3 Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information & Communication Technology, Gandhinagar 335
Communication Technology, Gandhinagar 175 4 4 4 4 Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT) 333
1 2 4 4 Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT) 173 8 9 9 5 SSN College of Engineering,
10 10 5 5 SSN College of Engineering, Kalavakkam, Chennai 332
Kalavakkam, Chennai 171 7 6 5 6 Thapar Institute of Engineering &
4 7 9 5 PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore 171 Technology, Patiala 329
4 6 6 6 Thapar Institute of Engineering & NR NR 10 7 Shiv Nadar University, Dadri 327
Technology, Patiala 169 1 5 6 8 PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore 322
NR NR 9 7 Shiv Nadar University, Dadri 168 9 8 7 9 Manipal Institute of Technology 320
9 8 8 8 RV College of Engineering, Bengaluru 167 NR NR NR 9 Hindustan Institute of Engineering &
6 5 7 9 Manipal Institute of Technology 166 Science, Chennai 320
NR NR 10 9 SASTRA University, Thanjavur 166 6 7 8 10 RV College of Engineering, Bengaluru 319
NR NR NR 10 BMS College of Engineering, Bengaluru 165 NR NR 9 10 SASTRA University, Thanjavur 319

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