S. Vishnu Sharma
BTech colleges in India is about engineering education scenario in this country, educational institutions offering engineering courses, rating methods
Collegechalo attempts to highlight some of the best BTech colleges in India as a part of this story.
Needless to say, the other objective behind this story is to explain about various parametres that are taken into account while giving a rating to these engineering colleges.
BTech colleges in India
The ultimate objective is to help students in taking better decisions when it comes to choosing the colleges for their study.
Engineering education
BTech is one of the most popularly chosen courses by students after their 12th standard study. This course is equally popular on par with medicine.
There is no citizen of this country who is not familiar with the name BTech. The same engineering degree is also called as BE in certain parts of the country.
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There are about 5000 BTech colleges in India currently.
The maxiumum number of BTech colleges in India are said to be located in Andhra Pradesh, Delhi, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Telangana, Uttar Pradesh.
The split of BTech colleges in India in the above mentioned states is Andhra Pradesh (452), Tamil Nadu (880), Delhi (53), Karnataka (390), Madhya Pradesh (220), Telangana (220), Uttar Pradesh (340).
BTech colleges in India offer over 24,800 engineering courses.
The type of engineering colleges
The BTech colleges in India are classified into private colleges, government institutes or Government Funded Technical Institutes (GFTIs), self-financing colleges, private deemed universities.
Authority
The approval authority for BTech colleges in India are All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE).
This organisation accepts applications for starting fresh engineering colleges and also for renewals of permission to run the existing BTech colleges in India.
The government institutions
Among the government BTech colleges in India, there are 23 Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT), 31 National Institute of Technologies (NIT) and 25 Indian Institutes of Information Technology (IIIT).
The admission process
The BTech colleges in India have different types of admission process for intake of students.
IITs admit students into them based on the performance of JEE Advanced. The top 2.5 lakh rank holders in JEE Mains are eligible to write JEE Advanced.
NITs and IIITs admit students based on scores in JEE Mains. The post declaration of results for JEE Mains and JEE Advanced, JoSAA (Joint Seat Allocation Authority) conducts counselling.
Students who have passed JEE Mains with the required cutoff marks will have to attend the counselling to seek admission into NITs, IIITs.
Similarly students who passed JEE Advanced with required cutoff have to attend the counselling by JoSAA to seek admission into IITs.
Certain private BTech colleges in India have their own entrance test, while couple of others admit students based on their performance in the plus-two exams.
Also there are state level entrance tests in certain states which the candidates have to pass before seeking admission into engineering colleges in those states.
Some of the well-known state level entrance exams for engineering admissions are WBJEE, KCET, KEAM, AP EAMCET, TS EAMCET, MHT CET, Assam CEE, UPSEE.
Candidates have to pass these exams if they are seeking admissions in certain BTech colleges in India.
After passing these exams, students have to attend counselling to get admission into these engineering colleges.
Certain educational institutions are offering admission based on Deemed Universities’ Entrance Exam.
Some of the popular exams in this categories are KIITEEE, KLEEE, VITEEE and SRMJEEE. Candidates passing these entrance exam with good score have to attend counselling to get admissions.
The ranking
The BTech colleges in India are given a rank by many rating agencies.
However the most popular of them is National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) by Ministry of Education of Government of India.
The other rating agencies are THE (Times Higher Education), QS (Quacquarelli Symonds), Outlook India, India Today and ARIIA (Atal Ranking of Institutions on Innovation Achievements).
The parametres for ranking
The rating agencies have their own parametres for analysing various aspects related to BTech colleges in India and giving them their ranks.
NIRF rating takes into consideration factors namely – Research and Professional Practice, Graduation Outcomes, Outreach and Inclusivity, Peer Perception and Teaching Learning and Resources.
Similarly, Outlook India rating of BTech colleges in India is done taking into consideration factors namely – Academics, Selection Process and Institute Profile, Personality Development and Exposure, Placement and Graduating Outcome and Infrastructure and Facilities.
The QS rating of BTech colleges in India is done based on factors namely – Academic reputation, Employer reputation, Citations per faculty, Faculty/student ratio, International faculty ratio and International student ratio.
The THE rating of BTech colleges in India is done based on Teaching, Research, Citations, International Outlook and Industry Income.
India Today rating of BTech colleges in India is based on factors namely – Reputation of the college, Quality of Academic input, Student Care, Infrastructure and Job Prospects.
ARIIA rating of BTech colleges in India is based on factors namely – Developing entrepreneurial mindset, Teaching and learning on innovation entrepreneurship, No of successful startups launched with help of the institution’s support, Intellectural Property generation and commercialisation, Annual budget for promoting innovation and entrepreneurship.
The top colleges
BTech colleges in India that have stood in top in the recent times as per the ranking by various agencies are IIT Madras, IIT Delhi, IIT Bombay, IIT Kanpur, NIT Tiruchy.
The above mentioned are among the public institutions. Among the private BTech colleges in India, the top ones were Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT, Vellore, Tamil Nadu), Amrita School of Engineering (Kerala) and Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology (Punjab).
Overview of some top institutions
IIT Madras (Tamil Nadu)
This has been prominently featuring in the recent times. It would not be surprising to say this is the prime ones among BTech colleges in India.
Located in South Chennai, in a beautiful campus spanning 630 acres, the institute is nearly self-contained and houses around 3000 students as well as the families of faculty and staff members.
The institute has grown from strength to strength ever since it obtained its charter from the Parliament of India in 1961, and has since established itself as a premier centre of research, consultancy and technological development.
Website – https://www.iitm.ac.in/
TIET (Punjab)
The Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology (TIET) is one of India’s oldest and finest educational institutions, which provides a steady source of highly skilled talent to the nation as well as overseas.
Founded in 1956 with a campus spread across sprawling 250 acres, Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, located in Patiala, has been a pioneer in engineering education, research and innovation.
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The institution involves ingenious minds solvers who are eager to make the world a better place to live in with their innovative techniques and discoveries.
The website – http://www.thapar.edu/
Siksha O Anusandhan (Odisha)
This institution was formerly known as Siksha O Anusandhan University and is composed of nine degree-granting schools and colleges and has a student body of around 10,000.
Many of SOA’s programs are nationally accredited, including engineering, medicine, pharmacy, business, nursing, biotechnology, science, humanities, environment, nano technology, materials science, agriculture and law.
It was founded as Institute of Technical Education and Research (ITER) in 1997 at Bhubaneswar and it received AICTE approval for B.Tech.
Since its inception it was affiliated to Utkal University. Subsequently, it was affiliated to Biju Patnaik University of Technology (BPUT) between 2002 and 2007.
The website – https://www.soa.ac.in/
Koneru Lakshmiah University (Andhra Pradesh)
This institution was established in 1980-81, as KL College of Engineering, which was upgraded to KL College of Engineering Autonomous in 2006 by UGC and was declared as a Deemed to be University in 2009 by UGC.
K L Deemed to be University is situated in a spacious 100-acre campus, with a built up area of over 20,00,000 Sq Ft., on the banks of Buckingham Canal of river Krishna, the campus is eight kilometers from Vijayawada city.
Built within a rural setting of verdant green fields, the institute is a virtual paradise of pristine nature and idyllic beauty.
The campus has been aptly named “Green Fields” and the splendid avenue of trees and gardens bear testimony to the importance of ecology and environment.
The campus ambience is most befitting for scholastic pursuits.
The website – https://www.kluniversity.in/
Placement and CTC
As far as placement with good CTC is concerned, IIT Madras, Vellore Institute of Technology of Tamil Nadu, IIT Delhi and Amrita School of Engineering of Kerala are BTech colleges in India that have witnessed good performance.
The highest CTC at IIT Madras is Rs 95 LPA (Lakhs Per Annum).
The same at Vellore Institute of Technology was about Rs 16 LPA. IIT Delhi had CTC of Rs 1 crore per annum and Amrita School of Engineering had highest CTC of Rs 12 LPA.
Fee structure
The fee structure at the these top BTech colleges in India is different from one another. The annual BTech fee is approximately Rs 1,01,450 at IIT Madras.
The same at Vellore Institute of Technology is approximately about Rs 1,70,000 per annum. The annual BTech fee at IIT Delhi is approximately about Rs 1,07,800.
The annual fee for BTech at Amrita School of Engineerings is approximately Rs 1,45,000 and the same at IIT Bombay is Rs 1,45,000.
Candidates can visit the official websites of these BTech colleges in India to know more information about them.