Nirma

COV E R STO RY

BEST COLLEGES

RANKING ON THEMES

NEW

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Overall Score

NEW

3 6

Factual Rank

NEW

2 5

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Roorkee Birla Institute of Technology and Sciences (BITS), Pilani Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Varanasi Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Guwahati Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT), Vellore National Institute of Technology, Surathkal College of Engineering, Anna University, Chennai National Institute of Technology, Warangal PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore Delhi College of Engineering, Delhi International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Hyderabad National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirapalli Netaji Subhash Institute of Technology, Delhi Motilal Nehru Institute of Technology, Allahabad National Institute of Technology, Calicut National Institute of Technology, Rourkela College of Engineering, Pune Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra (BIT), Ranchi R.V. College of Engineering, Bangalore Nirma Institute of Technology, Ahmedabad

Perceptual Rank

NEW

4

Job Prospects

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Infrastructure

OVERALL RANK 2009 2008 1 Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi 1

Student Care

ENGINEERING

Quality of Academic Input

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Reputation

TOP

INDIA’S

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100 8 8 . 37 87.60 87.19 85 . 5 7 70.14 60.75 52.50 48.80 46.38 43.04 39.90 36.19 34.83 32.24 31.79 31.66 31.65 30.93 29.98 28.78 26.26 25.91 25.11 24.90

Overall ranks are based on perceptual and factual scores, not on perceptual and factual ranks. Therefore, the overall rank of a college may be different from its perceptual and factual ranks. Faculties were not considered. NEW New entrants in the Top 25 .

PURUSHOTTAM DIWAKAR

BITS-PILANI RESERVES SEATS ONLY FOR TOPPERS OF BOARD EXAMINATIONS

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inations. The institute has a unique system of allowing students to decide their teachers and even timings of classes. “Transparency in selection, flexibility in teaching and industrial training in every degree course is what makes BITS rank so high,” says L.K. Maheshwari, vice-chancellor of BITS. The industrial partnership component, which has students even going abroad for training, has BITS teachers stationed at the place of training. BITS has 150 companies joining hands for this training. Besides a strong faculty, companies like Motorola and IBM have set up their laboratories here. BITS’ strong ties with industry at various levels is what has earned it Best Corporate-University Alliance award, too. It now has campuses in Dubai, Goa and Hyderabad also. “These are campuses of the same institute and not different institutes,” Maheshwari clarifies. G. Raghurama, deputy director, academic, points out how stress on entrepreneurship and leadership-building skills is imbibed at every stage to allow a strong decision-making personality to come up. In this remote part of India, BITS shines as an oasis, which incidentally is the name of its cultural festival too. with Rohit Parihar