The first engineering college in India was established in the Uttar Pradesh in 1847 for the training of Civil Engineers at Roorkee, which later become IIT Roorkee and an Institute of National Importance. There are 4000 engineering colleges in India with around 15 lakhs seats. Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu has the largest number of engineering colleges in India.
These engineering colleges and institutes are run by both government and private trusts. The Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, the Indian Institutes of Information Technology (IIITs) and the National Institutes of Technology (NITs) are the renowned institutes in the country.
Besides these institutes of repute some of the other top rated engineering colleges in India are Jadavpur University (JU) Kolkata, the Indian School of Mines Dhanbad, The College of Engineering Guindy, VIT University Vellore, Thiagarajar College of Engineering Madurai, Punjab Engineering College University of Technology Chandigarh, Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology Delhi etc.
Fees for the course in these institutes varies. Institutes like Symbiosis Pune, Sharda University, GNDU Amritsar, DIT Dehradun, IIIT Delhi and Mukesh Patel SoT in Mumbai charge anywhere between Rs. 1.4 to 2 lakhs per annum whereas others such as Jadavpur University, JNTU Hyderabad and CoE, Trivandrum offering the same in the range of Rs 3000 to 6000 per year.
The Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) has sixteen centers located in different parts of the country. The National Institutes of Technology (NIT) has 30 NIT Centers all over the country. In 2002 Government of India, upgraded all the original 17 Regional Engineering Colleges (RECs) as National Institutes of Technology (NITs).
Some of the popular engineering courses available in these engineering colleges are Aeronautical Engineering or Aerospace Engineering, Biotechnology, Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Communication Engineering,
Materials and Metallurgical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Mining Engineering and Petroleum Engineering etc.
The admission into these engineering colleges are through different examination both at All India level and regional level like- All India Engineering Entrance Exam (AIEEE) as Joint Entrance Examination (Main) (JEE (Main)) Indian Institute of Technology Joint Entrance Examination (IIT-JEE) ) Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) Birla Institute of Technology (BIT) to name a few.
These engineering colleges are doing yeoman service in the nation building process.
NIT Rourkela offers 31 undergraduate programmes and IIT Kharagpur is the leader in postgraduate studies with 58 programmes. MS Ramaiah Institute of Technology Bangalore awarded 1406 B. Tech degrees, Jadavpur University’s Faculty of Engineering has awarded 123 PhDs in the year 2012-13 alone. With 1035 women students, Government Engineering College Bhavnagar has the largest number of enrolled women engineering students. Amazingly Karunya University, Coimbatore have 7000 hostel residents of which 2582 are women.
Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay Indian Institute of Technology, Madras Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur VIT University, Vellore National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology, Sambalpur Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai Thapar University, Patiala SRM University, Chennai SASTRA University, Thanjavur PSG College of Technology, Coimbator National Institute of Technology, Warangal National Institute of Technology, Surathkal National Institute of Technology, Calicut Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal Jadavpur University, Kolkata Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee Indian Institute of Technology, Indore Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar Indian Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur Delhi Technological University, Delhi College of Engineering, Pune College of Engineering, Anna University, Chennai Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham University, Coimbatore Amrita School of Engineering, Coimbatore Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute, Mumbai University College of Engineering, Osmania University, Hyderabad SSN College of Engineering, Kalavakkam Silicon Institute of Technology, Bhubaneswar School of Engineering, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Ernakulam Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, Surat Sant Longowal Institute of Engineering and Technology, Longowal RV College of Engineering, Bangalore Punjab Engineering College University of Technology, Chandigarh Pondicherry Engineering College, Puducherry PES University, Bangalore Nirma University, Ahmedabad Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology, Delhi National Institute of Technology, Rourkela National Institute of Technology, Raipur | |
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