Top Engineering Colleges in India

Top Engineering Colleges in India: The National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) announced the top ranking institutions in India on August 12 and Indian Institute of Technology, Madras continued to top the overall ranking like last year. IIT Madras topped the engineering category, while Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Ahmedabad topped in management and All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) New Delhi again came first in the medical category. Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan announced the names and rakings of 16 categories of educational institutions in the program organized at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi.

India is home to 8,197 engineering colleges, including 6,624 private institutions and 2,294 government-run colleges. The top engineering colleges in India are 23 IITs, 31 NITS and 25 IIITs. About 94 engineering colleges are privately owned, 92 colleges are owned by public/government organizations, and 1 college is owned by public-private entities. Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Main and JEE Advanced are the main entrance exams accepted by top engineering colleges in India. The main entrance examinations accepted by top engineering institutions in India are JEE Main and JEE Advanced.

Top Engineering Colleges in India:  Highlights 2024

# IIT Madras, IIT Delhi, IIT Bombay, IIT Kanpur and more are some of the top engineering colleges in India.

# The NIRF rankings for 2024 ranked Indian Institute of Technology Madras as the top engineering college in India.

# IIT Madras, along with IIT Delhi, IIT Bombay and IIT Kanpur, has established itself as one of the premier engineering institutes of India.

# IIT Delhi stands as the leading engineering college in the Delhi NCR region.

Top engineering colleges in India accept the scores obtained by students in several national or state-level examinations including JEE Advanced, JEE Main, TNEA, MHT CET, AP EAMCET, TS EAMCET, ComedK and many others. There are many B.Tech colleges in major cities across the country like Delhi/ Delhi NCR, Chennai, Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Pune, Mumbai, Kolkata etc.

Top 10 Engineering Colleges in India with NIRF Ranking 2024

The National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) ranks colleges every year. The rankings are based on various criteria and change annually depending on the performance of colleges and universities.

Following is the list of top 10 engineering colleges in India based on NIRF ranking in the last three years, i.e. from 2022 to 2024: