Thursday, November 17, 2005

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Dataquest India-IDC-NASSCOM Best Indian Tech Schools Survey - IITs Way Ahead of Others and A Few Noticeable Surprises
 
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 India, 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:
 

Top Ten T-Schools
Overall Rank
RANK BY
Objective Assessment
RANK BY Recruiters' Perception
IIT Kanpur
1
1
1
IIT Bombay
2
2
2
IIT Madras
3
5
4
IIT Kharagpur
4
6
3
IT-BHU Varanasi
5
4
8
IIT Guwahati
6
3
21
NIT Warangal
7
7
12
NIT Trichy
8
8
7
Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, Patiala
9
9
10
Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology, New Delhi
10
12
16
 
 
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 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 magazine, www.dqindia.com.

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