Every year some news magazines like India Today, OutLook and DataQuest devotes a full edition to compile a list of India's top 10 engineering colleges. Though some doubts are always raised over the methodoligies followed while making these lists and questions are raised of how come suddenly BITS Pilani goes out from Top 10 when previous year it ranked 2nd ! or how Netaji Subhash Institute of technology ranked higher than BITS Pilani (DataQuest rating 2005)
Anyway in every list, obviously all the 7 IIT's features as Top engineering Colleges in India so people don't get to know more about other Top colleges. So I have decided to put down a list of Top 20 Non IIT Engineering Colleges. This list is purely on my personal experience .
I am also an engineer, with 4000 something rank in JEE 
but had to opt for another Institute(which is in Top 10 here) as my rank was too low and I wasn't getting anything good but I had got Good rank in AIEEE so went for that institute. Anyway I feels I can make a better list than these India Today or Outlook as I have "seen" what these have not seen.
Before I put this list, let me tell you, I feels almost all the Top NIT's, BITS Pilani, IIIT Hyderabad, DCE are fairly equaly and there is not much difference betwen them. I feels in that case, what branch you are getting becomes very important. I mean getting into CSE of Thapar is anytime better than getting into Civil of IT BHU or Mechanical of Bits Pilani. If you disagree with this than pleaes tell me as in the past 5-6 years alot has changed in India and what current student thinks
1. IT BHU
2. Bits Pilani
3. NIT Trichy
4. IIIT Hyderabad
5. NIT Warangal
6. Delhi College of Engineering
7. Thapar Institute of Engg & Technology
8. Anna University
9. NIT Suratkal
10. NIT Calicut
11. MNNIT, Allahabad
12. PEC, Chandigadh
13. IIIT, Allahabad (Please also read this though)
14. BIT Mesra
15. NIT Rourkela
16. NIT Kurukshetra
The Last 4 can be filled with any of these options -
* Jadavpur University
* ISM, Dhanbad
* Harcourt Butler Technological Institute
* Dhirubhai Ambani IICT
And of the remaining NIT's. All of them are good as they get lot of funds from government so you are always going to get good infrastrucutre at very cheap Fees.
As I had said earlier, if you feel the list need somemoderation or I have forgot some college(I know I have) than please tell me.
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August 21st, 2007 at 7:17 am
nice list buddy .totally agree but i feel it bhu should not have been included as it is infact a defacto iit itself.
August 21st, 2007 at 12:34 pm
Hi Goonda (are you from Andhra Pradesh?)
Anyway I have rated IT BHU as No 1 after all the IIT’s
so we both are pretty much agreeing to each other. The only thing that I feels and what other aspiring JEE students fails to see is instead of taking mechanical/chemical or civil in IT BHU, it is alot better to take Computers in some good NIT(if you are getting it).
August 22nd, 2007 at 2:46 am
What makes you put IIIT Allahabad behind Thapar Institute, NIT Calicut, and MNNIT Allahabad ? I would like to know because what I feel from your background is that you’ve been exceptionally biased in your analysis.
August 22nd, 2007 at 5:23 am
Hi Pawandeep, as I had said that this is a list which I have compiled on my knowledge and experience and from whatever I have heard from friends (I had friends in almost all of the above mentioned colleges when I was doing engineering). Now personally I feels they all are same, there is just a difference of here and there.
Ok, tell me one thing, lets again rebuild the list and lets compare the 3, Thapar, NIT Calicut and IIIT-A. Thapar is considered to be one of the best in North India(haven’t seen anyone not agreeing on this). Calicut used to be very popular and reputed, infact after Trichy, it was like second or third best among all Rec’s. I feels both MNNIT and IIIT-A are same.
Now you tell me why should IIIT-A be ranked higher than the other 3 ?
And no, I am not at all biased(why will I?) I am not getting any money to make these lists like what India Today or Outlook are getting
from certain colleges to boost there rankings.
Regards
August 22nd, 2007 at 5:46 pm
I believe after hearing this u might refresh ur list of top 20…
Though it was a good effort by u…
The shocking news is that our Former president or missile man of india Dr APJ Abdul Kalam is now IIIT-H Distinguished faculty…. IIIT-H has tremendously improved in last couple of yrs… Placements wise it ranks 5th in all India.. and 9th overall by dataquest…
August 23rd, 2007 at 6:33 am
Hi,
It was nice to see your response to my comment. Well, I think you made an honest attempt to collect your rankings but I sincerely feel that your facts are not correct when it comes to IIIT Allahabad. If you only count the number of international collaborations that this institute has forged in just eight short years of its existence you’ll be amazed. Asia’s first Discovery Park, a truly international hub of research is coming up in IIITA’s amethi campus. The humanoid HOAP2 robots at IIIT Allahabad’s robotics lab have been purchased at whopping costs of crores in direct association with Fujitsu Japan. Not only this a Rs. 300 crore ASEAN India Science and Technology Digital library project is
also on the anvil. These are just a few achievements of the institute. Placement-wise we were no. 4 all over India last year (Dataquest 2006). I might not have facts regarding other institutes with me right now, but I don’t think a young institute pioneering such trail-blazing projects merits a low rank in your top-20 list. And yes MNNIT may be located in Allahabad but you shouldn’t equate it with IIIT because IIIT doesn’t offer multiple streams, it offers a specialisation in IT and it was only last year that it began offering Electronics.
Student perception is something that takes some time to change. And I am sure once all these details start making headlines, the reputation of IIIT Allahabad will sparkle in a startling manner.
August 29th, 2007 at 10:31 pm
I am BITSian so my comments may appear biased…..But selecting a good college is really important than selecting a good branch unless you are very concerned about your initial placement….Coz down the line say after 7 or 8 years none of us will do the coding part or say some project in electronics…but wuld b ending up as mangers or research heads…..so ur branch matters very less….
P.S:If ur really interstd in doing research especially in sciences then the above statements do not hold true
August 30th, 2007 at 5:33 am
@Pawandeep - Sorry for delayed response as somehow I did’t realized that a comment has been made.
First of well, very well put response. Instead of flaming like many other does you have thoughtfully made your point. I can understand new colleges take time to establish themselves specially out of the student community. It is also nice to see IIIT-A doing well in so many fronts. What I have done is I have put your comment link after IIIT-A’s name so that people can also read what you have to say.
By the way, you are in which year ? I am myself from CSE stream so would love to know more about what others are doing in my area.
Cheers and Best wishes.
August 30th, 2007 at 5:40 am
@Arvind - Hi Arvind, I think it is one of the question on which we can never have single answer acceptable to everyone.
“College or Branch”
Personally I agrees with you as I know a guy (actually highly intelligent guy) who opted for IIT Metallurgy instead of going to NIT Trichy/IT BHU and he did made the best of it. He got branch promotion to Mechanical and than is in Lehman Brothers now.
And yes your point about stream becoming inconsequential is very true but I have also seen talented people who gets low rank going to ISM in the hope that they will again try for JEE, most of them failed to get high ranks and wastes one year. There many be people who won’t agree to this but people should avoid ISM dhanbad at any cost over a good branch at reputed NIT.
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September 1st, 2007 at 8:32 am
my brother secure 58%in pcm.he secure 22000 rank in aieee.can he get a good college.i heard that for dce minimum 60% in pcm is necessary.is it tue. can u tell me about aieee cut-off for nsit,dce,tapar.
minimum +2 % for thapar
September 1st, 2007 at 12:37 pm
Vivek, I have kind of lost touch with all the cutoffs as I am in industry now but still, 22k is fairly low as far as getting good ranks are concerned and I don’t think he will get these into these colleges with that rank. What I can suggest you is try to get him into specialized field. Now days everyone wants to be a software engineer but instead of that, may be get him into Hotel Management(just a suggestion) or into Navy. Think about it!
September 27th, 2007 at 8:21 pm
i must say the ranking u havw done is quite sensible
October 5th, 2007 at 5:25 pm
Hi ‘Dhadkan of India’,
Thanks for your gracious response to my comments. I am deeply grateful to you for acknowledging my point of view. Well, about me…apart from being a third year undergraduate student (B.tech IT ) at IIIT Allahabad, I’m also an avid blogger. My research interests include natural language processing and I am currently pursuing a project in that field. It would be nice if we could stay in touch through email.
Warm Regards,
Pawandeep
October 8th, 2007 at 1:03 pm
Hi Pawandeep, sure will surely remain in touch with you. By the way, when are your placements ?
I have another website http://www.coders2020.com which you may find useful. Unfortunatley due to job and time constrains, I am not able to work on them but still I hope you will find the site useful.
Also from usability point of view, how do you find this blog ? is it helpful ? what will you recommend me to improve it further ?
Regards