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Cover Story EW India Private Engineering Colleges Rankings 2026-27

Parameters of excellence: India’s Top 10

private engineering colleges

o provide readers, especially aspiring engineers, a Unsurprisingly, the ‘competence of faculty’ parameter
comprehensive profile of India’s most respected was assigned highest weightage (350) indicating that
Tprivate engineering institutes, the Top 100 national the respondents believe that ability to attract and retain
and state league tables are supplemented with Top 10 faculty is the most important criterion for assessing the
national rankings on the basis of parameters of excellence. educational and research capability of engineering (and
To compile the national and state rankings, AZ Research other) institutions. Parameter rankings which highlight
field researchers interviewed 2,175 higher education faculty, the prime strengths of highly ranked institutions are useful
students and industry representatives countrywide, asking because they enable students to select institutions whose
them to rate engineering institutes on nine parameters, viz, priorities dovetail with their own.
competence of faculty, faculty welfare and development, The national rankings of Top 10 colleges under all nine
research and innovation, curriculum and pedagogy, parameters enumerated above, are set out below.
industry interface, career readiness/placements record,
infrastructure, leadership and value for money.
Rank Value for money Rating
2023 2024 2025 2026 (200)
7 6 7 1 Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT) 168
Rank Competence of faculty Rating 4 3 5 2 School of Technology, Dhirubhai Ambani 167

University, Gandhinagar
2023 2024 2025 2026 (350) 5 4 4 3 Thapar Institute of Engineering &
2 1 2 1 School of Technology, Dhirubhai Ambani Technology, Patiala 166
University, Gandhinagar 342 NR 7 5 4 Hindustan Institute of Technology & 164
Science, Chennai

4 4 3 1 Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT) 342 164
3 3 1 2 Birla Institute of Technology and Science 8 8 9 4 RV College of Engineering, Bengaluru
(BITS), Pilani 340 NR NR NR 4 SRM Institute of Science and Technology 164
(SRM Deemed University), Chennai

8 7 8 2 Manipal Institute of Technology 340 163
7 9 7 3 Thapar Institute of Engineering & 3 2 3 5 PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore
Technology, Patiala 338 NR NR NR 6 SASTRA University, Thanjavur 162
1 2 2 4 International Institute of Information 6 5 6 7 Mahindra University — École Centrale
Technology (IIIT), Hyderabad 337 School of Engineering, Hyderabad 161
6 5 3 4 Mahindra University - École Centrale NR NR NR 7 The LNM Institute of Information
School of Engineering, Hyderabad 337 Technology, Jaipur 161
5 6 3 5 PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore 336 1 1 2 8 International Institute of Information
7 7 4 6 RV College of Engineering, Bengaluru 335 8 7 8 Technology (IIIT), Hyderabad 160
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160
Manipal Institute of Technology (Kar)
NR NR NR 6 School of Engineering, Shiv Nadar
University, Greater Noida 335 NR 9 7 8 Birla Institute of Technology (BIT), Mesra 160
NR 10 6 7 Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan’s Sardar Patel 9 8 10 8 BMS College of Engineering, Bengaluru 160
College of Engineering, Mumbai 332 NR NR 9 9 School of Engineering, Shiv Nadar
9 10 9 7 SSN College of Engineering, Kalavakkam, University, Greater Noida 156
Chennai 332 NR NR 10 9 Dr. NGP Institute of Technology, Coimbatore 156
NR 9 8 8 Hindustan Institute of Technology & 10 6 7 10 SSN College of Engineering, Kalavakkam,
Science, Chennai 331 Chennai 155
NR NR NR 8 SRM Institute of Science and Technology NR NR NR 10 Amrita School of Engineering (Amrita
(SRM Deemed University), Chennai 331 Vishwa Vidyapeetham), Coimbatore 155
NR NR 10 9 Alagappa College of Engineering (Anna NR NR NR 10 Alagappa College of Engineering (Anna
University), Chennai 330 University), Chennai 155
NR NR NR 9 Amrita School of Engineering (Amrita NR NR NR 10 Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan’s Sardar Patel
Vishwa Vidyapeetham), Coimbatore 330 College of Engineering, Mumbai 155
NR NR NR 10 Vivekanand Education Society’s Institute NR NR NR 10 New Horizon College of Engineering,
of Technology, Mumbai 326 Bengaluru 155

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