India's top 50 Engineering colleges 2011

Heavily dominated by public institutions, the Top 50 listing is a roll call of excellence.

RANKING the top colleges is a very difficult task. While it is relatively easy to create clusters of colleges, it is differentiating within clusters that became the most difficult exercise. So for the first time in the country we have used balanced scorecard methodology to arrive at the ranking of the top 50 colleges.

Ranking methodology: We scanned the last five year rankings of about 241 colleges and normalised their ranks, by assigning differential weights to subjective and objective ranking. Such a process is used to develop clusters of institutions. The research standing of individual institutions were further used to refine the clusters and remove the odd men out. Individual clusters were ranked serially. In each of these clusters the differences in cut-off marks, wherever possible (like in case of IITs and AIEEE institutes and some States) were used to arrive at individual ranks.

Heavily dominated by public institutions, the top-50 listing is a roll call of excellence India’s top 50 engineering institutions 2011

Institute	2010Grade	2011
IIT-Bombay	AAA+	1
IIT-Delhi	AAA+	2
IIT-Madras	AAA+	3
IIT-Kanpur	AAA+	4
IIT-Kharagpur	AAA+	5
IIT-Roorkee	AAA	6
IIT-Guwahati	AAA	7
IT-BHU, Varanasi	AAA	8
BITS, Pilani	-	9
Jadavpur University, Jadavpur	AAA+	10
Anna University, Chennai	AAA+	11
NIT-Tiruchirappalli	AAA	12
NIT-Rourkela	AA	13
BIT-Mesra	A+	14
ISM-Dhanbad	AA+	15
VIT University, Vellore	AAA	16
Thapar University, Patiala	AAA+	17
NIT-Warangal	-	18
NIT-Surathkal	AAA	19
NSIT, New Delhi	AAA+	20
IIIT-Hyderabad	AAA	21
ICT Mumbai (UDCT)	-	22
NIT-Calicut	AAA	23
Delhi Technological University	AAA+	24
MNNIT-Allahabad	AAA	25
DA-IICT, Ahmedabad	AAA+	26
JNTU, Hyderabad	AAA+	27
PSG Tech, Coimbatore	AAA+	28
VNIT- Nagpur	AA	29
NIT- Jamshedpur	A+	30
College of Engineering, Pune	AAA+	31
HBTI, Kanpur	AAA+	32
NIT- Kurukshetra	AAA	33
Thiagarajar CoE, Madurai	AAA+	34
NIT- Durgapur	AA	35
Amrita University, Coimbatore	AAA	36
PEC Univ. of Tech Chandigarh	AAA	37
MIT, Manipal	AAA	38
Nirma University-IT, Ahmedabad	AA+	39
IIIT, Allahabad	AAA	40
SVNIT-Surat	AA	41
VJTI, Mumbai	-	42
PES Inst. of Tech., Bangalore	AAA+	43
Sir MV Inst. of Tech, Bangalore	AA+	44
MANIT, Bhopal	AA	45
NIT-Hamirpur	A+	46
ITM (GITAM), Visakhapatnam	AA	47
SGSITS, Indore	-	48
MNIT, Jaipur	AAA	49
SSN College Engg Chennai	AAA	50