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:
College | NIRF Ranking 2024 | NIRF Ranking 2023 | NIRF Ranking 2022 |
IIT Madras | #1 | #1 | #1 |
IIT Delhi | #2 | #2 | #2 |
IIT Bombay | #3 | #3 | #3 |
IIT Kanpur | #4 | #4 | #4 |
IIT Kharagpur | #5 | #6 | #5 |
IIT Roorkee | #6 | #5 | #6 |
IIT Guwahati | #7 | #7 | #7 |
IIT Hyderabad | #8 | #8 | #9 |
NIT Tiruchirappalli | #9 | #9 | #8 |
BHU Varanasi | 10 | 15 | 13 |