Top Engineering Colleges in India

Engineering courses continue to be one of the most popular choices in India, and that is probably the reason why the number of engineering colleges has grown exponentially in the country. Today, our country has some of the finest government and private engineering colleges and universities. These top engineering colleges in India impart courses at both under-graduate and post-graduate levels. Besides the metropolitans, some of the top engineering colleges of India are to be found in cities like Roorkee, Guwahati, Vellore, Kanpur, Kharagpur, and Allahabad, among many others.

Now that there is such a huge increase in the number of these colleges in the country, students must have clear information about the best ones and their pros and cons along with the admission procedure, which would help them in making wiser choices, while moving in the right direction. Majority of the top engineering colleges of India follow a specific selection procedure. Different colleges conduct their own entrance examinations, letting students select from a good variety of engineering disciplines, including Civil, Computer, Mechanical, Electronics, Biochemical, Chemical, and Electrical.

While the IITs continue to rule the top engineering colleges list, there are many other colleges on the list as well. IIT provides the country with world-class technology professionals every year and therefore, the seven IITs are considered to have the best standards for technical education in India. IIT takes admissions to its undergraduate programs based on the results of the Joint Entrance Examination or JEE. Apart from IITs, there are important colleges like the BITS, Pilani (Birla Institute of Technology and Sciences) and the Banaras Hindu University, with the latter one being one of the oldest universities imparting technical knowledge in different disciplines in India.

Following is the list of top 25 engineering colleges in India for the year 2016, as compiled by the Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry as a part of its India Ranking Report:

RANK	COLLEGE NAME	CITY
1	Indian Institute of Technology Madras	Chennai
2	Indian Institute of Technology Bombay	Bombay
3	Indian Institute of Technology Delhi	New Delhi
4	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	Kharagpur
5	Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur	Kanpur
6	Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee	Roorkee
7	Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad	Hyderabad
8	Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar	Ahmedabad
9	Indian Institute of Technology Ropar	Roopnagar
10	Indian Institute of Technology Patna	Patna
11	Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati	Guwahati
12	National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli	Tiruchirappalli
13	Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore	Vellore
14	Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi	Varanasi
15	Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology Surat	Surat
16	Indian Institute of Technology Indore	Indore
17	Birla Institute of Technology, Ranchi	Ranchi
18	Visvesvarya National Institute of Technology Nagpur	Nagpur
19	National Institute of Technology Rourkela	Rourkela
20	Indian Institute of Technology Mandi	Mandi
21	College of Engineering, Pune	Pune
22	National Institute of Technology Karnataka	Mangalore
23	Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad	Allahabad
24	PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore	Coimbatore
25	Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur	Jodhpur