THE BIRLA INSTITUTE OF Technology and Science, Pilani (BITS-Pilani) and the International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad (IIIT-H) have been ranked India™s top two non-IIT engineering colleges for the second successive year in the EducationWorld India Rankings of next-best engineering colleges by a specially constituted sample database of respondents comprising 1,036 engineering faculty and 1,220 final year engineering students. The pan-India survey was conducted early this year by 150 field researchers of the well-reputed Delhi-based market research and opinion polls company Centre for Forecasting and Research Pvt. Ltd (C fore, estb. 2000). Although there™s been no disturbance of rankings at the very top of this year™s league table of India™s sufficiently well-known Top 100 next-best engineering colleges ” College of Engineering, Anna University, Guindy (Chennai) and the National Institute of Technology, Trichy (NIT-Trichy) have retained their #3 and #4 ranks respectively ” there™s a rearrangement of seating with the National Institute of Technology, Warangal (NIT-W) ranked #5 this year against #8 in 2013. Moreover while NIT-Surathkal and the Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, Gandhinagar (Gujarat) have retained their 2013 rankings of #6 and #7, and Delhi Technological University has risen from #9 to #8 this year, the big loser is the Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad (often referred to as the seventh IIT) which has dropped in the public esteem from #5 last year to #9 in 2014. The PSG College of Technology ranked #11 in 2013, has graduated to the Top 10 table this year. œI am pleased to learn that your survey has accorded BITS-Pilani the apex position for the second year in succession. The high scores under the parameter of infrastructure facilities are acknowledgement that we have started a massive infrastructure expansion and upgradation programme in all three of our Indian campuses (Pilani, Goa and Hyderabad). In the Pilani campus we have embarked upon a Project Parivarthan (˜change™) initiative with an outlay of Rs.600 crore to construct new academic, faculty and students™ residential buildings. Simultaneously, we are upgrading our teaching and research labs infrastructure. Our top rating under the parameters of industry interface and placement are also justified. Our Practice School programme which makes industry internship an integral part of the curriculum from the very first year, is highly acclaimed by industry and academia leaders. Moreover, we have doubled our efforts to provide challenging career opportunities for our graduates by building a larger and stronger placement team, says Dr. G. Raghurama, an alumnus of IIT-Madras and the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore who started teaching in BITS-Pilani in 1987 and is currently director and senior professor of electrical and electronics engineering at this pioneering institute which was awarded deemed university status in 1964, and is celebrating its golden jubilee year. FUETHER DOWN THE 2014 league table of non-IIT engineering colleges, the Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai ranked #11, PEC University of Technology, Chandigarh (13), Netaji Subhas Institute, Delhi (16), R.V. College, Bangalore (19), SSN College of Engineering, Chennai (21) and VJTI, Mumbai (25) have…
