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Gurgaon, May 23, 2005 - The time of the year is
back and we are again viewing frenzied activities
amongst the students for getting admission in the best
colleges in the country. As engineering profession
enjoys a privileged position in Indian minds getting
admission into premier engineering colleges is the most
coveted dream for any student and their parents. But
with an ever-increasing number of colleges to choose
from and lack of any standard means of evaluating these
colleges there is a lot of confusion in the student
fraternity. "Which college to choose and which one
to put on second priority" is the biggest challenge
faced by the would-be-engineers and their parents.
Appreciating the need, Dataquest, IDC and Nasscom
came together to start a definitive study that would be
conducted on an annual basis and would rank different
Tech schools on various parameters. To add recruiters
view into this study it is decided that perception of IT
companies would also be included thereby giving it a
more holistic view. The findings of this pioneering
exercise are ready now. Here are the highlights.
The DQ-IDC-Nasscom survey has taken into account both
objective assessment of the institutes and perception of
the recruiters. Four broad component of the objective
assessment are placement, infrastructure, intellectual
capital and industry interface. Total 116 engineering
colleges participated in this study from different
corners of the country.
The top ranks are devoid of any major surprises with
IIT Kanpur, IIT Bombay, IIT Madras and IIT Kharagpur
getting the top four honors. But the rest in top ten do
spring up a few surprises in form of IT BHU, Thapar
Institute of Engineering & Technology and Netaji
Subhas Institute of Technology featuring in them while
some 'perceived' heavyweights like BITS Pilani & DCE
getting knocked out of the top 10 list. IIT Delhi is the
only premier institute that is not covered in this
exercise as they decided not to participate for some
internal reasons.
The ranking of top ten T-schools are shown below:
A pleasant surprise is IIT Guwahati, which is ranked
3rd position on objective assessment while it is at 21st
position on recruiters' perception. According to Parijat
Chakraborty, Head, User and Communication Research of
IDC India, "This new IIT is yet to establish its
brand image among the recruiters, as compared to its
elder brothers. However, they are doing a better job in
putting their houses in order".
An opposite scenario is observed for BITS Pilani. It
enjoy's an impressive image among the recruiters (5th
position) while on objective assessment they score way
below at 25th rank.
Placements in these engineering institutes have seen
a general upturn with the salary increase of 10-15% over
last year. IT majors Like Infosys, Wipro & TCS are
the top recruiters and in some colleges they have
recruited over 100 students by themselves.
The complete findings of the survey could be seen in
the forthcoming issue of Dataquest.
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