Ranking of Engineering Colleges/Institutes in India based on Research

2009 September 3
by Zahid

Recently I ranked engineering colleges in India based on the student quality and other parameters, and most of these rankings were also supported by a latest article in “Current Science”. Current Science is fortnightly research journal published by Indian Academy of Sciences since 1932. A recent article titled “Ranking of Indian engineering and technological institutes for their research performance during 1999–2008” in Current Science gives the ranking of engineering colleges based on research.

I really appreciate the efforts made by authors for giving a new parameter for ranking engineering colleges. On same time have concerns over ranking of Anna University (ranked 9) and College of Engineering Anna University (ranked 16), as they both should represent only one institute, instead of two. Similarly Institute of Chemical technology (Ranked 13) is a very specialized college offering courses related to Chemical engineering. And also, IISc offers only Master and PhD degrees.

When there is a scope of some relaxation over the span of course and engineering studies for ranking, few very good research institutes that conduct major technological and Biological research (involving technology) in India, would also have been include. To name few are Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, Chennai Mathematical Institute (CMI), Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), and National Center for Biological Research (NCBS). Because when it comes to research India has few very specialized centers and Engineering studies are still well separated from research.

The list of top thirty colleges based on some research index is below.

Rank Institute
1 IISc, Bangalore
2 IIT Kanpur
3 IIT Bombay
4 IIT Kharagpur
5 IIT Delhi
6 Jadavpur University
7 IIT Madras
8 IIT Roorkee
9 Anna University
10 IIT Guwahati
11 Cochin University of Science and Technology
12 BITS, Pilani
13 Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai
14 IT BHU, Varanasi
15 Bengal Engineering and Science University, Howrah
16 College of Engineering, Anna University, Chennai
17 Harcourt Butler Institute of Technology, Kanpur
18 Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad
19 Maulana Azad NIT, Bhopal
20 NIT/REC, Rourkela
21 NIT/REC, Warangal
22 NIT/REC, Trichy
23 Sant Longowal Institute of Engineering and Technology, Sangrur
24 PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore
25 NIT, Jamshedpur
26 Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala
27 Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology, New Delhi
28 Delhi College of Engineering, New Delhi
29 BITS, Mesra
30 S.J. College of Engineering, Mysore

When it comes to research, India has few very specialized centers and Engineering studies are still well separated from research. Student preference may differ for course to course. A student going for Bachelor or Master of Engineering may not prefer this list because for them placement matters more than research. And placements depend on student quality and that changes the whole ranking.

I think research can be a good parameter for ranking engineering colleges in India but can not be used as only ranking as criteria, because of overlap in type colleges to be considered for ranking. Few are very specialized research centers and don’t offer undergrad studies (like IISc) and few are specialized to a single field (like Indian Institute of Chemical Technology).

Finally to conclude that research is a nice parameter for ranking engineering institutes in future but can not be treated as only criteria. I rally appreciate the authors contributing in giving a new direction to ranking engineering colleges in India. I hope in future we can see few more criteria coming up like Research project and funding and a specialized ranking based on departments. It is really a great direction to see some solid ranking in future.

To read the complete article please click on the tile of paper.

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24 Responses leave one →
  1. 2009 September 9
    abhishek permalink

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    I went thru the website and found it pretty interesting.
    The quiz registration are happening only till the 14th of this month
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  2. 2009 September 25
    shivang permalink

    what the hell is this??? This is all crap ranking…i think u hvnt done proper research…please do that before publishing such meaningless and non sense stuff……

  3. 2009 October 11

    IIT Kharagpur is the top 4 engineering college in India. It was also listed among the top 500 universities worldwide in the Academic Ranking of World Universities.

  4. 2009 December 16
    sayan permalink

    This Ranking IndeX List is probably the most Meaningful of them all.
    Research has never been the forte of Indian Technical Education Diaspora,
    Only Institutes like IISc,IIT-Kgp,IIT-Kanpur,Jadavpur University,
    IIT-Delhi Encourages Field Work & research, apart from these fewer Institutions suports Research Undertaking, rather they stress on “PLACEMENTS”, its utterly sad N ridiculous.
    Unless there is ample support for Research , Education “Business” in India will remain “business” depriving the potential of India of becoming an World Class Educational Hub.

  5. 2010 January 5
    Umesh permalink

    how about joining SRM univ or VIT in tamil nadu???suggest any other better private colleges in bangalore.

  6. 2010 February 21
    dhananjay permalink

    university rank of “gujarat tech. university” and north mh. university in india rank

  7. 2010 March 7
    nikhl permalink

    i agree wid iisc banglore rank 1 but serial no 10 its absurd…have u ever given iit or aiee….where the nits gone….dat too nit bhopal has gud rank thn nit trichy..warangal n surathkal…u gone mad…or drunk…i thnk so…the top 3 nits in india r nit trichy…warangal and surathkal…..idiot….if u don kno nythng don paste this page n dis blog..

  8. 2010 March 7
    admin permalink

    Nikhal: This is not given by me dude. It was published in topic research journal india. you see my ranking at top engineering colleges ranking 2009.

  9. 2010 March 18
    chandra sekhar permalink

    I don’t believe that JNTU Hyd is better than NIT Warangal

    Every in Andhra Pradesh knows that

    please correct it

  10. 2010 March 19
    Abhijit Dubey permalink

    Dear Sir ,
    I gave GATE 2010 and got GATE Score-192 with AIR 5169 in Instrumentation branch . Sir , please let me know is there any possibility to get admission in M-Tech degree in any top universities/Colleges through this score . If not , with this score can I get any sort of privilege in getting job concerning my department of Engineering.
    Waiting for your affirmative response in my email .

    Thanking you …

    Yours faithfully
    Abhijit Dubey

  11. 2010 March 23
    mallikarjun permalink

    #

    Hello sir,
    I got 418 score. (ec) obc

    My queries are.

    1 Give some suggestions where will I get admission ?
    2 is there any chance of geting any nit if it is which branch?

  12. 2010 March 28
    Anand Mishra permalink

    This ranking shows that NITs, BIT Mesra also do research :) . Funny!!

    Where is ISI Kolakata, TIFR Mumbai if you are talking about research.
    and if you are talking about involvement of students in research activities where is IIIT Hyderabad, IIIT Bangalore.

  13. 2010 April 13

    are the new IITs or IT-BHU be preffered over top NITs, and what is the reason the B.tech courses are preffered over the 5 years dual courses? please give me some good suggestions….

  14. 2010 May 7
    balaji permalink

    yes according to research, it is some what better ranking
    along with iisc,iits some colleges like nit rourkela,it bhu,jadavpur university are doing well

  15. 2010 May 14
    messy permalink

    wat abt our great clg UVCE BANGALORE founded by sir M.VISVESVARAYA? THIS S REALLY ABSURD!!!!!

  16. 2010 June 9

    srm college facilities are better comepression than another private colleges in india.As well as srm college buildings are skyscapper.

  17. 2010 June 16
    AMan permalink

    hi
    this ranking is tottaly wrong , they have not included top colleges such as amity, vellore. SRM
    these three should be in top 20

  18. 2010 June 16

    Aman: Sorry to say, but this was based on a research article published in research journal. Please read the paras given above.

  19. 2010 June 22
    Prathap Rajamani permalink

    Is this Rank based on the research fundings obtained by professors at the respective institute?

  20. 2010 June 24

    HELLO SIR,
    I GOT AIR = 2,34,653 [IN GEN. CAT.], 64,109 [IN OBC CAT.],M.P. STATE RANK 12454[IN GEN CAT.] & 2979[IN OBC CAT.]IN PAPER-I OF AIEEE-2010 FOR B.TECH. AIEEE-2010 MARKS = 58
    IIT-JEE-2010 MARKS = 57
    BITSAT-2010 SCORE = 142
    CET-2010 AIR = 276 [GEN.], 40 [OBC], STATE RANK = 253 [GEN.] & 38 [OBC] CET-2010 MARKS = 70
    P.E.T.-2010 RANK = 17,529 [GEN] & 3699 [OBC] P.E.T.-2010 MARKS = 84
    NOW TELL ME WHICH TOP RANKED COLLEGES CAN I GET BY MY ABOVE SAID EXAM RESULTS & HOW ?
    PLEASE ALSO TELL ME THAT IF I WANNA DO B.E./B.TECH. WITH AERONAUTICAL ENGG. OR COMPUTER SCIENCE & ENGG. THEN WHAT WILL BE THE TOP COLLEGE I CAN GET THROUGH THE MARKS OF ANY OF THE ABOVE SAID EXAMS GIVEN BY ME ? PLEASE REPLY ME SOON ON MY E-MAIL ID. I SHALL BE THANKFUL TO U IF U DO THIS. THANKS

  21. 2010 June 25
    Ashish Sharma permalink

    Please release the data in public according to which you have come up with these ranks. Without such data in my sight, I’ll consider this article of yours, to be a mere stunt to get page views.

  22. 2010 July 16
    ritesh permalink

    this all crap!!!!!!!
    this is jst a mislead to students
    better research for 10 more years

  23. 2010 July 17
    admin permalink

    Ritesh: I also thought that way but it appeared in an Indian research journal.

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