AN OVERALL PICTURE OF ENGINEERING

INSTITUTIONS IN INDIA

Soon after the down of independence, India launched a massive programme

of development. Many large projects were undertaken to meet the needs for

irrigation, power, and flood control and to establish a basic industrial base for

steel, machine tools, fertilizers, transportation, drugs and pharmaceuticals,

petrochemicals, power equipment etc. The country hardly had any industrial base

or the infrastructure for the task of national building. A policy of planned

development adopted. However, one of the major problems faced by the country

during the early year of planning was the acute shortage of trained technical

manpower. To meet the challenges, an ambitious programme of expansion of

engineering education was undertaken to overcome the situation.

India completed more than six decades after independence; during these

years, the country has had eleven five year plans of development. The technology

capacity of the nation, a key determinant of the pace, quality and quantum of

economic and social growth has increased manifold. This has been possible on

account of the corresponding quantitative and qualitative expansion of technical

education1.

Engineering education is a basic and essential input for national

development and strengthening of the industry, economy and ultimately improving

the quality of life of the people. It has made a significant contribution to India’s

economic development. The programmes which have advanced the country and

diversified and augmented production since independence are largely because of

the manpower produced by engineering institutions of the country.

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In India, initially engineering education was based on the British model and

emphasized the importance of engineering professional practice. After

independence it has been constantly influenced by American education system in

its contents2. The 20

th century witnessed tremendous progress and incredible

developments took place in the field of engineering education. Technical

education system is to produce trained manpower in adequate number for the

economic and technological development of the country and to run its industries.

It plays an important role for the economic and industrial growth, national

developments and international competitiveness. It imparts technical knowledge,

study, and research and facilitates technological transfer.

In India engineering education at degree level is provided basically by five

categories of institutions3:

• Institute of National importance (IITs)

• Technical Universities

• Regional engineering collages/National Institute of Technology(NITs)

• Engineering Department/ collages in traditional Universities

• State level government/private engineering collages

Technical education in India contributes a major share to the over all

education system and play a vital role in the social and economic development of

our nation. In India, Technical education is imparted at various levels such as:

craftsmanship, diploma, degree, post graduate and research in specified fields to

various aspects of technological development and economic progress.

The beginning of formal technical education in India can be dated back to the

mid 19th

century. The major policy initiatives in the pre- independence period

includes appointment of the Indian Universities commission in 1902, issue the

Indian Education policy resolution in 1904 and Governor General’s policy

statement of 1913 stressing the importance of technical education. The

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establishment of IISc., Bangalore, Institute of Sugar, Textile and Leather

Technology in Kanpur, NCE in Bengal in 1905 and industrial schools in several

provinces and significant development includes:

• Constitution of technical education committee of the central advisory board of

Education(CABA) in 1943

• Preparation of sergeant report of 1944

• Formation of All India council for Technical education (AICTE) in 1945 by

the Government of India.

All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE):

The All India Council Technical Education (AICTE) was setup in

November, 1945 as an apex organization, charged with the responsibility or

planning and coordinated the development of technical education in India. An to

insure the same as stipulated in the national policy of education(1986), AICTE be

vested with statutory authority for planning , formulation and maintenance of

norms and standards, quality assurance through accreditation, funding in priority

areas, monitoring and evaluation, maintaining parity of certification and awards

and ensuring coordinated and integrated development and management of

technical education in country.4

The Government of India (Ministry of HRD) also constituted a national

working group to look into the role of AICTE in the context of proliferation of

technical institutions, maintenance of standards and other related matters. The

working group recommended that AICTE be vested with necessary statutory

authority for making it more effective which would consequently require

restricting and strengthening with necessary infrastructure and operating

mechanisms.

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The AICTE is responsible for the accreditation of all engineering

institutions and it monitors the growth of technical education in relation to planed

quantitative growth and proper maintenance of norms and standards. The National

Board of Accreditation of AICTE aim to bring standards of some of the

programmes offered in technical institutions on par with programmes offered in

the institutions in the USA and Europe by introducing a quality auditing system

and establishing a datum for measuring the quality and excellence in engineering

education. The accreditation exercise is very rigorous has several inputs such as

quality of teaching, level of research, faculty expertise evaluation of teachers and

standard of infrastructure and resources available at the institutions. There are

seven statutory regional committees across the country for assisting the council in

planning and development of technical education, monitoring and periodic

evaluation of approved institutions of the region.5, 6

Development of Engineering Education in India:

The history of technical education in India can be traced to epic period

(1000BC) and Vedic period (prior to 500 BC) when the numerous technical skills

such as carpeting, smithy, foundry and weaving were part of education. Later

during medieval India the vocational skill reached great heights as it is evident

from the findings of the archaeological remains of the period 7, 8

. The high quality

of article such as cotton and silk fabrics, embroidery painted and enameled wares,

gold & silver jewelry, swords and knives potters metal utensils could not have

been achieved and sustained for such a long period without a dependable system

foe technical education. Thus, the development of engineering education in India

may be divided into two major group- Pre independence and Post independence.

Status of Engineering Education Pre-Independence:

The first move in India to train surveyors in a formal manner was made by

Michael Topping in May 1774 at the Fort George in Madras with eight students.

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This school was later to grow into the engineering college, Guindy. The school

was training only English boys and the government was at first definitely against

the teaching surveying of any kind to young native Indians because of the military

and political implications of such survey work. As a precaution, against the

reliable maps falling into the hand of the French, the Dutch and other rival power

operating in India at that time, the court of directors of the East India Company

insisted on the secrecy of maps and restricted the art and science of surveying of

English boys.9, 10 and 11

In 1817, the Hindu College was founded by a spontaneous impulse of some

Indians, in which the medium of instructions was English and in 1855, this college

was incorporated in the Presidency College. In 1843-44, the government

sanctioned professorship of civil engineering at the Hindu College but suitable

candidate was not found. The council of Education turned to the institution of civil

engineers, London, for help in obtaining a suitable person but with no better result.

Finally, a Cambridge gentleman teaching in Hindu College was designated as

professor of civil engineering. However he could not make any contribution to the

teaching of the subject. An engineering class to train surveyors and builders was

started at Elphinston Institution, Bombay in June 1844. It had a very short life and

was closed by the end of 1847 because it failed to attract students of sufficient

merit to quality as “scientific civil engineers fully grounded in the theory of their

art” suitable to be employed as civil engineers.12, 13

A school started functioning in January 1845 at Saharanpur with few bright

students from Delhi and Agra collages. However it was closed after two years.

Saharanpur school had very short life but was significant in many ways. It was the

speed from which the Roorkee College grew. It specifically aimed to train in civil

engineering, those boys had already some education in science and mathematics at

one of the recently setup collage at Delhi and Agra but the most remarkable

feature of the school was the instructions was to be based not only scientific ideas

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brought from the west but also on the indigenous know how possessed by the

Indians. 13, 14

Lt. Governor James Thomason submitted a memorandum to supreme

government with detail proposal of setting up a college to train Indians as civil

engineers on September 23, 1847. The proposal was accepted by the governor

general Lord Hardinge and a notification of the government of North West

Provinces (NWP) was issued on Nov. 25, 1847 to establish a civil engineering

college at Roorkee. The collage started the functioning on January 1848 under the

principal ship of Lt. R. Maclagan with four other teachers. The college offered

course at three levels: the first department with a two years course of engineers;

the second department with a one year course for upper subordinate (overseer);

and the third department with one year course (later raised to two years) for lower

subordinates (sub overseers & drought men). The medium of instructions of first

two departments was English, in third one it was Urdu and after some years, Hindi

also. The Roorkee College was named as Thomos College of Civil Engineering in

1854, in honors of it founder. The Thomson College of Civil Engineering was

affiliated to Calcutta University in 1864 and to Allahbad University in 1894, but

this affiliation remained only notional, as no student were took diploma from these

universities. The affiliation with Allahabad University ended in 1905. The college

financially and administratively was governed by the NWP government and

enjoyed complete autonomy in academic matter.15

In 1859, introduced a civil engineering college in Madras, but it founded on

a very modest scale for the first few years, as government gave no grants in

addition to what were already being given to the survey school. The college was

patterned on the Roorkee system with slight variations in nomenclature: The

senior department to train engineers with students drawn from commissioned

officers of the army, the first department to produce overseers from among the

noncommissioned officers of the army, as well as civilians and a special drawing

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class to produce draughts men and estimators. The college was affiliated to the

University of Madras and the first batch of candidates received the Bachelor of

Civil Engineering (BCE) during in 1864. In 1880, Director of Public Instructions

(DPI) Madras suggested that mechanical engineering should be introduced at the

Madras collage of civil engineering should introduce at the Madras College of

Civil Engineering. In 1886, the collage underwent further reorganization and the

word civil was dropped from the name. The Madras University instituted a

separate degree course in mechanical engineering in 1894, changing the name

from BCE to Bachelor of Engineering (BE) and his was first institute in India to

offer a degree course in mechanical engineering.

In 1854, the council of education, Bengal submitted a proposal for the

establishment of a separate engineering department in a proposed presidency

college. In November 1856, the civil engineering college Calcutta started

functioning with ten students. The duration of course was two years and admission

was based on an entrance examination. With the establishment of Calcutta

University in 1857, the college was affiliated to it and the course rose with three

years with one of the practical training at the end of which successful candidate

got the degree in Licentiate in civil engineering (LCE) from the university. In

1865 after the approval from secretary of state the engineering college was closed

and instead a department of civil engineering at the presidency collage was opened

but in 1880, engineering college was given back its separate identity as a college

by transferring it to a building of the old Bishop’s College at Sibpur in the Howrah

with civil and mechanical engineering course. In May 1887, it was rechristened as

civil engineering college, Sibpur. Finally in 1920 it was given its present name-

Bengal Engineering College, Sibpur with the view to providing qualified

managers and assistant to mines. The Bengal government, on the

recommendations of a committee, decided to establish mining department at the

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college in 1906 and there were abolished in 1926 after the establishment of the

Dhanbad School of Mines. 16, 17

On the basis of a project submitted by the Bombay government, the

Supreme Government approved to establish a college for instruction of civil

engineers, surveyors, overseers etc. The project beyond starting an engineering

college and mechanical school at Poona. Consequently the school was converted

into the Poona Civil Engineering Collage in 1864 and affiliated to the University

of Bombay. The scope of instruction at the college was extended in 1879 to

include forestry and agriculture to trained forest rangers but in 1904, the forest

rangers courses was closed and in 1911,all other non engineering courses were

also abolished and it back its original name- Poona College of Engineering.18

The Victoria Jubilee Technical Institute founded in 1887 proudly claims

that the impulses, which led to the formation the Indian National Congress, were

also responsible for the origin of the institute. The institute aimed to provide

systematic courses in those science subjects which had direct bearing on the

industrial occupations existing in and around Bombay at the time. The licentiate

courses in electrical engineering and technical chemistry were added in 1903 and

1906 respectively. 19

The Princely state of Baroda established the Kala Bhawan Technical

Institute at Baroda in 1890.20

The Institute started with mechanical & chemical

technology, architecture and civil works. Copper’s Hill College was established in

1869-70 at a site called Copper’s Hill after which the college was popularly

known through out its short life. It was officially known as the Royal Indian

Engineering College in 1875 and was closed down in 1907.

On March 11, 1904 the Governor General Lord Curzon announced the

Indian education policy21

which advocated a speedy growth of technical education

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in India on the basis of a new approach. The importance of the technical education

was further stressed in 1913 by the Governor General through a policy statement22

.

In the beginning of the twentieth century i.e. in 1905 another engineering

college was established at Jadhavpur which started a diploma courses in

mechanical and civil engineering in 1920.23

The Indian Institute of Science,

Bangolor was established in 1911 and started a degree level course in general and

applied chemistry.24

The standard of work and scholarship setup during in it early

days and stand today as leading postgraduate institution in the country for

advanced instruction and research in many branches of science and technology.

The establishment of Banaras Hindu University (BHU) in 1916 gave a birth

of engineering college in 1919 with two departments – Electrical and Mechanical

in the campus at three levels: degree and diploma level in engineering and an

artisan level. The department of mining and metallurgy were added in the college

of engineering in the same year. Four year letter (1923), these departments was

given separate identity in department of engineering college. In 1944, its status

was further raised to become the college of mining and metallurgy. During the

period of 1919 to 1944, a lot of degree and diploma courses like industrial

chemistry (1919), ceramic technology (1924), diploma in soap manufacturing

(1932), etc. were started. Thus the BHU can proudly claim to have given the

greatest impetus to technical education in India during this period25, 26

.

In 1920, Harcourt Butler Technological Institute was established at Kanpur

(UP) with the primary objective of institute being chemical research for the

development of industries. The HBTI had the credit of producing a large number

of chemical technologists who manned a large part of chemical industry in all over

the country and it initiated many courses in various areas of chemical technology

like oil, soaps, paints, ceramics etc. 27, 13

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Indian School of Mines (IMS), Dhanbad was established in 192011

(while

school was formally opened by the Viceroy, Lord Irwin on 1st Dec. 1926) with six

departments: Mining, Geology, Engineering, Chemistry, Physics, and

Mathematics. In 1924, The Bihar Engineering School was raised to the status of

civil engineering college, affiliated to Patna University. The degree course in

electrical engineering was started in 1945 while mechanical engineering had to

wait till 1952.13

Calcutta University made it direct contribution to advanced level

technical education by starting postgraduate courses and creating facilities in

research in applied chemistry and (1920) applied physics (925) and its made great

reputation for itself in scientific research.28

While the department of chemical

technology of Bombay University, established in 1934 was also achieved a

prominent position among the higher institutions of chemical technology in he

country.29

Aligharh Muslim University (AMU) established his engineering college in

1935 with diploma courses in civil, electrical and mechanical engineering.25

While

JDV Collage of Science and Technology was started by the Andhra University at

Waltair in 1933 with three years degree course in physics and applied chemistry

(i.e. food, drugs, sugar technology, pharmaceuticals and chemical engineering).

In 1927, Radha Swami Satsang Sabha of Dayalbagh, Agra founded a

technical school to produce mechanics, technicians & engineers.28

By 1930 it

developed into a college imparting training in mechanical, electrical and

automobile engineering.30

The Bombay government opened two schools in 1939 for leather training in

Bandra- the government training Institute and the Government leather working

school. The modern education society of Poona established Sir Cusrow Wadia

Institute of Electrical Technology in 1938 with three years diploma course in

electrical technology and certificate course in radio servicing.28

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Delhi polytechnic was started at Delhi in 1941. At that time it was the only

institution of its kind in India designed to provide full time as well as part time

courses in technical commercial and art subject both for junior and senior

students.31

The Laxmi Narayan Institute of Technology was founded in Nagpur in

1943 as a sequel to the will of Rao B.D. Laxmi Narayan according to which the

annual income of his state was bequeathed to the Nagpur University for the

purpose. The Institute started with two year BSc (Technology) degree course in

chemical engineering and oil technology.13

AFTER INDEPENDENCE:

After independence various educational commissions and committees were

made to recommend highly practical and research oriented recommendations and

development plans for technical education in the country. In 1945, Sarkar

committee was appointed by the AICTE under the chairmanship of Mr. N.R.

Sarkar. This committee was recommended the establishment of higher technical

education institutes known as IITs in order to meet post war needs of engineers of

higher level32

. These institutes aimed at providing excellence in science and

engineering education.

The first Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) was established on May 15,

1950 and was then called Eastern Higher Technical Institute. The present name

“Indian Institute of Technology” was adopted just before its formal inauguration

on August 18, 1951. A chain of six more IITs were established in different part of

the country (as Table.1) (33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, &39)

and these were declared as Institute of

National Importance by an act of parliament (1961, amended in 1963).

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Figure 2.1 : Location of IIT’s in India

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Table 2.1: Establishment of IITs in India

Sl.

No.

Institute Name Place Year of Establishment

1. IIT Kharagpur 1951

2. IIT Bambay 1958

3. IIT Madras 1959

4. IIT Kanpur 1960

5. IIT Delhi 1963

6. IIT Gowahati 1996

7. IIT Roorkee 2002

The Sarkar Committee recommended one thousand seats of postgraduate

(PG) as against 2400 undergraduate students in IITs. Over the years all IITs have

introduced very large number of PG and M Tech. programs to utilize the core

professionals of the faculties concerned. Recognizing the importance of such

engineering field as Biotechnology, IITs Delhi and Kharagpur have established

independent department which run integrated M Tech programs in this field.

Further the need for integration of science, engineering, technology and

management has been recognized and setting up a School of Management at IIT

Karagpur. Similar schools have been setup in other IITs also.

In the year 2008, Ministry of Human Resources (MHRD) announced to

open eight new IITs under XI five year plan in different states of India and

upgraded IT BHU as IIT to fulfill the demand of technical men power of the

country38

. Thus, the total no.of IITs will be increased up to sixteen. Out of these

six IITs, are functional and have admitted the students for session 2008-09

(Table.2) with 120 seats in each40, 41

.

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Table 2.2: List of IITs established under XI five year plan.

Sl. No. Institute Name Place

1. IIT, Bihar Patna

2. IIT, Rajsthan Kota

3. IIT, Andhra Pradesh Hydrabad

4. IIT, Panjab Ropar

5. IIT, Orissa Bhunaneshwar

6. IIT,Gujarat Gandhinagar

7. IIT, Himanchal Pradesh Mandi

8. IIT, Madhya Pradesh Indore

9. IIT, BHU Varanasi

It was the dream of Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru, the 1st Prime Minister of India to

see the India as a leader in Science and Technology42

. In 1955, Planning

Commission appointed an Engineering Planning Committee (EPC), to undertake

an overall assessment of the demand and supply position in respect of engineering

personnel because a large number of industrial projects were completed in 2nd

five

year plan (1956-61). To fulfill the above said demand of technical manpower, the

Government of India started seventeen Regional Engineering Collages (RECs)

(Table No.3) in different parts of the country43

.

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Table 2.3: Growth of the regional engineering colleges

Sl. No. RECs Year of

establishment

Land in acres Intake at UG

level

1. Warangal 1959 241 250

2. Suratkal 1960 362 250

3. Nagpur 1960 290 250

4. Bhopal 1960 610 250

5. Durgapur 1960 187 250

6. Jamshedpur 1960 341 250

7. Srinagar 1960 62 250

8. Allahabad 1961 233 250

9. Suratkal 1961 256 250

10. Calicut 1961 120 250

11. Rourkela 1961 648 250

12. Jaipur 1963 267 250

13. Kurukshtra 1963 300 250

14. Tiruchirappali 1964 850 250

15. Silture 1969 - -

16. Jalandhar 1985 - -

17. Hamirpur 1986 - -

The REC system served well initially but as time passed, some state

government did not shoulder proper responsibility to steer the Institutes in the

right direction. Following the long standing demand for more IITs, the MHRD

decided to upgrade all RECs to National Institute of Technology (NITs) in 2002

with three new NITs (Table No. 4). The Government of India introduced the

National Institute of Technology Act 2007 to bring twenty such institutions within

the ambit of the act and to provide them with complete autonomy in their

functioning. The individual NITs after the introduction of NITs Act have been

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functioning as autonomous Technical Universities and hence they can draft their

own curriculum and functioning policies.42

Table 2.4: List of NITs

Sl. No. NITs Place

1. National Institute of Technology Warangal

2. S V National Institute of Technology Surat

3. Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology Nagpur

4. Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology Bhopal

5. National Institute of Technology Durgapur

6. National Institute of Technology Jamshedpur

7. National Institute of Technology Srinagar

8. Motilal Neharu National Institute of Technology Allahabad

9. National Institute of Technology Surathkal

10. National Institute of Technology Calicut

11. National Institute of Technology Rourkela

12. Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur

13. National Institute of Technology Kurukshtra

14. National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappali

15. National Institute of Technology Agarthala

16. National Institute of Technology Raipur

17. National Institute of Technology Silcur

18. Dr BR Ambedkar National Institute of Technology Jalandhar

19. National Institute of Technology Hamirpur

20. National Institute of Technology Patna

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Figure 2.2 : Location of NIT’s in India

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By the end of 5th

plan (1974-79), there was again considerable pressure for

expansion of engineering institutions to fulfill the demand of technical manpower

for sustainable development of the country but governments were finding it

difficult to make functional resources for the same. To handle this situation some

state government, especially Karnataka, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, and Andhra

Pradesh took a bold decision to permit private registered societies and trusts to

establish and run engineering institutions on a self finance basic and all these

Institutes were affiliated with the universities of the region or to the State Board of

Technical Education. This type of private engineering institutions came in very

large number but there was no effective mechanism to control their functioning

nor was any systematic admission process. The above situation continued even all

institute were brought under the AICTE control and latter the Supreme Court in

its historical judgment defined the norms for admission and fee structure for all

self- financing engineering institutions.

After come out of some set norms from AICTE and Supreme Court

decision, large number of engineering institutions in different parts of the country

were established (Table No- 5)44

and tried to satisfy the demand of technical

manpower. Presently, private engineering colleges running engineering courses

both at degree and PG level are very large scale and due to that engineering

institutions spread in all regions and state of the country.

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Table 2.5: Region/state wise distribution of engineering institutions in India

till 2004 (Data from AICTE website) Region State/Union Territory ENGINEERING

NOI Intake

Central 1. Madhya Pradesh 61 20210

2. Chhattisgarh 14 4020

3. Gujarat 37 12965

Total -----> 112 37195

Eastern 1. Mizoram 1 120

2. Sikkim 1 525

3. West Bengal 54 15477

4. Tripura 1 180

5. Meghalaya 1 240

6. Arunachal Pradesh 1 210

7. Andaman&Nicobar - -

8. Assam 3 750

9. Manipur 1 115

10. Nagaland - -

11. Orissa 41 13014

12. Jharkhand 10 3385

Total -----> 114 34016

North 1. Bihar 8 1905

2. Uttar Pradesh 89 28953

3. Uttranchal 9 1440

Total ----- 106 32298

North-West 1. Chandigarh 5 800

2. Haryana 38 12785

3. Himachal Pradesh 5 1260

4. Jammu& Kashmir 5 1545

5. New Delhi 14 4330

6. Punjab 45 14880

7. Rajasthan 41 15045

Total -----> 153 50645

South 1. Andhra Pradesh 236 82970

2. Pondicherry 6 2370

3. Tamil Nadu 254 80417

Total -----> 496 165757

South-West 1. Karnataka 118 46375

2. Kerala 89 24413

Total -----> 207 70788

West 1. Maharashtra 155 48250

2. Goa 3 740

3.Daman & D,Dadar,N.H. - -

Total -----> 158 48990

Grand Total 1346 439689

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With the time spent, both Government and private engineering institutes

doing well and continue to improve them shelf to get better status and become one

of the best institute of the nation through their quality of education and

quantitative research output, campus placements, infrastructure, academic

environment, industry interface and by producing quality technical manpower for

sustainable development of the country.

Table 2.6: Top hundred institutions of India ranked by outlook magazine in

2007 Rank Name of Institute Rank Name of Institute

1. Indian Institute of Technology IIT Kanpur 24. IIIT Hyderabad

2. Indian Institute of Technology IIT

Kharagpur 25. Harcourt Butler Technological Institute

Kanpur

3. Indian Institute of Technology IIT Bombay 26. Malviya National Institute of Technology

Jaipur

4. Indian Institute of Technology IIT Madras 27. VNIT Nagpur

5. Indian Institute of Technology IIT Delhi 28. NIT- National Institute of Technology

Kozhikode

6. BITS Pilani 29. Dhirubhai Ambani IICT Gandhinagar

7. IIT Roorkee 30. Osmania University College of Engineering

Hyderabad

8. IT-BHU Varanasi 31. College of Engineering , Andhra University

Vishakhapatnam

9. IIT-Guwahati 32. Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology New

Delhi

10. College of Engineering , Anna University

Guindy 33. NIT- National Institute of Technology

Kurukshetra

11. Jadavpur University , Faculty of

Engineering & Technology Calcutta

34. NIT- National Institute of Technology

Rourkela

12. Indian School of Mines Dhanbad 35. SVNIT Surat

13. NIT- National Institute of Technology

Warangal 36. Government College of Engineering Pune

14. BIT, Mesra Ranchi 37. Manipal Institute of Technology Manipal

15. NIT- National Institute of Technology

Trichy

38. JNTU Hyderabad

16. Delhi College of Engineering New Delhi 39. R.V. College of Engineering Bangalore

17. Punjab Engineering College Chandigarh 40.. NIT- National Institute of Technology

Jamshedpur

18. NIT- National Institute of Technology

Suratkal

41. University Visvesvaraya College of Engg.

Bangalore

19. Motilal Nehru National Institute of

Technology Allahabad 42. VJTI Mumbai

20. Thapar Institute of Engineering &

Technology Patiala

43. Vellore Institute of Technology Vellore

21. Bengal Eng and Science University ,

Shibpur Howrah

44. Coimbatore Institute of Technology

Coimbatore

22. MANIT Bhopal 45. SSN College of Engineering Chennai

23. PSG College of Technology Coimbatore 46. IIIT Allahabad

Contd….

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Rank Name of Institute Rank Name of Institute

47. College of Engineering Trivandrum 74. NIT- National Institute of Technology

Jalandhar

48. NIT Durgapur Durgapur

75. SV University Engineering College

Tirupati

49. SIT Calcutta 76. NIT- National Institute of Technology

Raipur

50. Mumbai University Institute of Chemical

Tech Mumbai 77. Vasavi College of Engineering Hyderabad

51. Sardar Patel College of Engineering

Mumbai

78. The ICFAI Institute of Science and

Technology Hyderabad

52. P.E.S. Institute of Technology, Banglore 79. NIT- National Institute of Technology

Patna

53. Maharashtra Institute of Technology Pune 80. Cummins Colleges of Engg of Women

Pune

54. Amrita Institute of Technology & Science

Coimbatore

81. VIT Pune

55. National Institute of Engineering Mysore 82. Shri Ramdeo Baba K.N. Engineering

College Nagpur

56. B.M.S. College of Engineering Bangalore 83. Muffakham Jah Engineering College

Hyderabad

57. Laxminarayan Institute Of Technology

Nagpur 84. Karunya Institute of Technology

Coimbatore

58. Nirma Institute of Technology Ahmedabad 85. D.J. Sanghvi Mumbai

59. IIIT Pune 86. Sathyabhama Engineering College Chennai

60. Amity School of Engineering Noida 87. Kongu Engineering College Erode

61. JNTU Kakinada 88. Mepco Schlek Engineering College

Sivakasi

62. S.J. College of Engineering Mysore 89. Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College

Ludhiana

63. Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology

Hyderabad 90. Hindustan Institute of Engineering

Technology Chennai

64. IIIT Bangalore 91. SDM College of Engineering Dharwad

65.. SRM Institute of Science and Technology

Chennai

92. R.V.R. & J.C. College Of Engg Guntur

66. SASTRA Thanjavur 93. Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi New

Delhi

67.. Bangalore Institute of Technology

Bangalore

94. K.L. College of Engineering Veddeswaram

68. The Technological Institute of Textile &

Sciences Bhiwani

95. Dharmsinh Desai Institute of Technology

Nadiad

69. III Gwalior 96. S.G.S. Institute of Technology & Science

Indore

70. JNTU Anantpur 97. Jabalpur Engineering College Jabalpur

71. M.S. Ramaiah Institute of Technology

Bangalore

98. Sree Chitra Thirunal College of

Engineering Trivandrum

72. Gitam Vishakhapatnam 99. G.H. Patel College of Engg & Technology

Vallabh Vidyanagar

73. NIT- National Institute of Technology

Hamirpur

100. Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology

Bhubaneshwar

Table 3.6 lists the top hundred engineering institute of India ranked by Out

Look Magazine in 2007 on the basis of their intellectual capital (IC), infrastructure

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& facilities (I&F), pedagogic systems (PS), industry interface (II), placements (P)

and total performance (T). As per the survey report IIT Kanpur occupy 1st position

and followed by Kharagpur, Bombay, Madras and Delhi. BITS Pilani was ranked

6th

and IIT Roorkee was at 7th

position. The recently upgraded IT BHU, Varanasi

as IIT has occupied 8th

rank where as IIT Guwahati rank was 9th

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Table 2.7: Top fifty private engineering institutions of India ranked by

outlook magazine in 2007 Rank Name of Institute Rank Name of Institute

1. BITS Pilani

26. Amrita Institute of Technology & Science

Coimbatore

2. BIT Mesra Ranchi

27. Shri Ramdeo Baba KN Engineering College

Nagpur

3. PSG College of Technology Coimbatore 28. Karunya Institute of Technology Coimbatore

4. Thapar Inst. of Engineering &Technology

Patiala

29. Kongu Engineering College,Perundurai Erode

5. Dhirubhai Ambani Inst. of Infocom.Tech

Gandhinagar

30. Sreenidhi Inst. of Science &Technology

Hyderabad

6. Manipal Institute of Technology Manipal 31. SDM College of Engineering Dharwad

7. Vellore Institute of Technology Vellore 32. Mufkham Jah Engineering College

Hyderabad

8. VJTI Mumbai 33. Mufkham Jah Engineering College

Hyderabad

9. SSN College of Engineering Chennai 34. Vasavi College of Engineering Hyderabad

10. RV College of Engineering Bangalore 35. Jaypee University of Information Tech Solan

11. PES Institute of Technology Bangalore 36. RVR & JC College Of Engineering Guntur

12. Sardar Patel College of Engineering Mumbai 37. Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology

Bhubaneshwar

13. Maharashtra Institute of Technology Pune 38. KL College of Engineering Vaddeswaram

14. SJ College of Engineering Mysore 39. Babu Banarasi Das Lucknow

15. SASTRA University Thanjavur 40. Institute of Technology & Management

Gurgaon

16. Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology

Hyderabad

41. Hindustan Inst. of Engineering Technology

Chennai

17. Nirma Institute of Technology Ahmedabad 42. Siddhartha Engineering College Vijayawada

18. BMS College of Engineering Bangalore 43. Sona College of Technology Salem

19. SRM Institute of Science and Technology

Chennai

44. Galgotia Noida

20. Bangalore Institute of Technology Bangalore 45. VIT Pune

21. Sathyabhama Engineering College Chennai 46. Yeshwantrao Chavan College of Engg

Nagpur

22. Gitam Vishakhapatnam 47. Sree Chitra Thirunal College of Engineering

Thiruvananthapuram

23. National Institute of Engineering Mysore 48. Kakatiya Institute of Technology & Science

Warangal

24. The ICFAI Inst. of Science and Technology

Hyderabad

49. KLE Society’s College of Engineering

Belgaum

25. Mepco Schlenk Engineering College Sivakasi 50. JSS Academy of Technical Education

Bangalore

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Table 3.7 lists the top fifty private engineering institute of India based on a

survey report of Look Magazine in 2007 on the basis of their intellectual capital

(IC), infrastructure & facilities (I&F), pedagogic systems (PS), industry interface

(II), placements (P) and total performance (T). As per the survey BITS Pilani has

occupied 1st rank and followed by the BIT Ranchi , PSG College of Technology

Coimbatore, Thapar Institute of Technology, Patiala and Dhirubhai Ambani

Institute of Infocom. Tech Gandhinagar.46

.

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