Top 60 Engineering Colleges in India..

There are so many university and college rankings available these days that nobody bothers about them anymore. What’s in the ranking dear? You will always have one to justify your decision. What’s more? You can have a customized ranking tailored made for your institute if you buy the right ad package.

Anyways, it’s more like 18 years since the first wave of privatization hit the country but still you will find IIT’s and IIM’s, Xaviers, LSR, Loyola, Presidency topping the chart. Partly, because they are senior citizens of the education industry respected by one and all. And partly because having these big names on the list adds to its authenticity. So, it’s better to have them there for the first few slots and then cleverly capture the “first best available slot”. I think soon we will have packages marketed like this -

A - If you spend this much then we might think of giving you fifth position?

B – But how? We have six institutes already who should figure in the list to make it look authentic?

A – Oh like that! Then we will give you the seventh position. We also have a package for ranking your competitors. If you are willing to spend this much then we can lower their ranks as well.

Anyways, the economics of ranking is something which does not come under right to information or you would have case studies on that.

Anyways, I stumbled on this piece of article in my favorite online news paper which aroused my curiosity. The authors have tried to rank all the institutes based on a common parameter. What makes this ranking different is that the data is available in public domain and is purely objective. Though it’s the only parameter chosen but still is in a better position to tell the tale about the state of engineering institutes in India.

And if you are wondering why suddenly out of blue I am posting this article on my blog. Then well, I went to the engineering school listed at 23rd position. Good to see that they have got the name and the place right.

More on the ranking here

The report can be read/downloaded from here.