The IITs have to be divided in 3 categories : Category 1 ) The first 5 - KGP, Madras, Delhi, Mumbai & Kanpur ( I wouldn’t call them “ Top”, but they are the oldest among the IITs created by the Act of Parliament of India)
Category 2) Roorkee and Guwahati. Even here, Roorkee and Guwahati are simply not comparable as each has its own story of evolution( Roorkee is 170 years old ), yet for the purpose of categorization, one can keep both in one class.
Category 3) All the other IITs .
Then you have many other categories of the engineering/technical institutions:
Category 4) IISc Bangalore : This is a class by itself ! Can’t compare with IITS !!!
Category 5: Super specialty technical institutions: top on the list is NID and select IIITs; particularly IIIT Bangalore. Although NID is a design school; I would still put this in the class of top specialisation tech schools.
Category 6: And among the “ private” institutions, there are many such as BITS ( particularly the Pilani campus) , Manipal, SSN College of Engineering/SNU and a few more which have very high standards of academics, admission processes and governance structure.
Category 7: Then you have the likes of DCE( now DTU) , BHU-IT, College of Engineering at Pune, NIT Trichy, NIT Suratkal and perhaps a small bunch of others such as NITs at Bhopal/Jaipur/Warangal/Allahabad/Rourkela in this class which are essentially Government run, but quite autonomous. Once upon a time the College of Engineering, Guindy was perhaps part of this club.
Category 8: Well run “ private “ engineering institutions such as VIT, SRM, SASTRA etc etc; but have strange admission practices such as “ Management Quota” or “ Trustee Quota” etc etc.. They have a 70–30 model. 70% students on merit and 30% on various quotas to manage the cash flows. It is some of the students from the 70% merit pool who keeps the institutions’ reputation flying high.. Yet, they are all one or two notches below the above mentioned 7 categories, but may be definitely better than Category 9 & 10 below..
Category 9: Other NITs, other reasonably reputed institutions; example: Pantnagar, VJTI , Thapar, Harcourt Butler, etc etc. Many of the other specialty engineering institutions with 40+ years of existence ( be it Govt or private) specializing in areas such as Dredging/Marine etc, can be considered here.
Category 10 : All other private engineering colleges and State level engineering colleges of the Govt.
The comparisons are bit complex, the so called “ rankings” for the tech institutions by various agencies is good only for the top order in the ranks. If one is making into the top 10 ; its great; else the comparison has be be more scientific for the middle order ranks.
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