Engineering education in India

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In India, there are several engineering colleges imparting undergraduate and graduate courses in
engineering, applied engineering and sciences. The Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), the
Indian Institutes of Information Technology (IIITs) and the National Institutes of Technology
(NITs) are the renowned and reputed institutes in the country.[citation needed] Some other institutions
that are on par with them include: Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, Institution of
Engineers (India), Jadavpur University (JU) Kolkata, the Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad and
the College of Engineering, Guindy.

Contents

1 History
2 Indian Institutes of Technology
3 Indian Institute of Information Technology
4 National Institutes of Technology
5 Other Universities
o 5.1 University of Mumbai
o 5.2 Anna University
6 The Institution of Engineers (India)
7 Polytechnic Institutes
8 List of States in India by number of Engineering Institutes
9 See Also
10 References

History
See also: List of Indian engineering colleges before 1947
The impulse for creation of centers of technical training came from the British rulers of
India.While superintending engineers were mostly recruited from Britain, lower gradescraftsmen, artisans and sub-overseers who were recruited locally.The necessity to make them
more efficient, led to the establishment of industrial schools attached to Ordnance Factories and
other engineering establishments.The first engineering college was established in the U.P. in
1847 for the training of Civil Engineers at Roorkee,Thomason College(which later become IIT
Roorkee) which made use of the large workshops and public buildings there that were erected for
the Upper Ganges Canal.In pursuance of the Government policy, three Engineering Colleges
were opened by about 1856 in the three Presidencies. In Bengal, a College called the Calcutta
College of Civil Engineering was opened at the Writers' Buildings in November 1856.In
Bombay,the overseers' school at Pune eventually became the Pune College of Engineering and
affiliated to the Bombay University in 1858.In the Madras Presidency, the industrial school

attached to the Gun Carriage Factory became ultimately the Guindy College of Engineering and
affiliated to the Madras University (1858).

Indian Institutes of Technology

The Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) has sixteen centers located in Bhubaneswar, Bombay,
Delhi, Gandhinagar, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Indore, Jodhpur, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Madras,
Mandi, Patna, Roorkee, Ropar and Varanasi. All IITs enjoy the status of the Institutes of
National Importance and are autonomous universities that draft their own curricula. Many IITs
are members of LAOTSE, an international network of universities in Europe and Asia. LAOTSE
membership allows the IITs to exchange students and senior scholars with universities in other
countries.[citation needed]
Admission to undergraduate B.Tech and integrated M.Tech programs are through IIT-JEE (the
Joint Entrance Examination) in which around 400,000 students appear annually out of which
only 5,500 get selected. Admission to most postgraduate courses in IITs is granted through
various written entrance examinations: GATE (for M.Tech.), JAM (for M.Sc.) and CEED (for
M.Des.). The admission for Ph.D. program is based primarily on a personal interview, though
candidates may also have to appear for written tests. The IITs are also well known for their
special reservation policy, which is significantly different from the one applied in other
educational institutions of India. For details of colleges in India see: Indian Institutes of
Technology and Engineering colleges of India.[1]

Indian Institute of Information Technology

Indian Institutes of Information Technology (IIITs) are a group of four institutes of higher
education in India, focused on information technology. They are established by the central
government, centrally funded, and managed by the Ministry of Human Resource Development.

Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad (IIIT Allahabad)

Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management, Gwalior (IIITM-G)
Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design and Manufacturing, Jabalpur
(IIITDM Jabalpur)
Indian Institute of Information Technology Design & Manufacturing Kancheepuram
(IIITDM Kancheepuram)

National Institutes of Technology

The National Institutes of Technology (NIT) are premier colleges of engineering and technology
education in India. They were originally called Regional Engineering Colleges (RECs). In 2002,
the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India, decided to upgrade, in
phases, all the original 17 Regional Engineering Colleges (RECs) as National Institutes of
Technology (NITs). There are currently 30 NITs, with the inception of 10 new NITs in the year
2010. The Government of India has introduced the National Institutes of Technology (NIT) Act
2010 to bring 30 such institutions within the ambit of the act and to provide them with complete

autonomy in their functioning. The NITs are deliberately scattered throughout the country in line
with the government norm of an NIT in every major state of India to promote regional
development. The individual NITs, after the introduction of the NIT Act, have been functioning
as autonomous technical universities and hence can draft their own curriculum and functioning
policies.
The admission to undergraduate programs of all the NITs was done by the All India Engineering
Entrance Examination popularly known as AIEEE. From the year 2013, AIEEE was replaced by
JEE(Main)in which 40% weightage is given to the Higher Secondary results and 60% weightage
given to the JEE(Main) results. In addition to the NITs, a host of other well-known national level
reputed institutes like DCE, NSIT, IIITs, PEC, Thapar University, DA-IICT, BIT Mesra accept
students from the newly introduced examination. The examination is objective by nature and is
conducted by the Central Board of Secondary Education popularly known as the CBSE. More
than fourteen lakh(1,400,000) applicants took part in 2013 for approximately 15500 seats in the
B. Tech and B. Arch programmes available in all the NITs put together.

Other Universities
University of Mumbai
The University of mumbai was ranked 41 among the Top 50 Engineering Schools of the world
by America's news broadcasting firm Business Insider in 2012 and was the only university in the
list from the five emerging BRICS nations viz Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.[2] It
ranked at 62 in the QS BRICS University rankings for 2013, a ranking of leading universities in
the five BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa).[3] Its strongest scores
in the QS University Rankings: BRICS are for papers per faculty (8th), employer reputation
(20th) and citations per paper (28th).[4] It was ranked 10th among the top Universities of India by
QS in 2013.[4] and was India's 3rd best Multi Disciplinary University in the QS University
ranking.[4]
The best engineering colleges affiliated to University of Mumbai are Veermata Jijabai
Technological Institute, Sardar Patel Institute of Technology and Sardar Patel College of
Engineering which are ranked as top 50 engineering colleges in India.

Anna University
Anna University is one of the premier educational institutions located in Chennai. There are also
a lot of engineering colleges that are affiliated under the University located all around Tamil
Nadu. College of Engineering Guindy (CEG) also has the distinction of being the first
engineering institute in India when it was founded as a School of Survey in 1794 under the
Madras University before most of the engineering colleges in the State were merged under Anna
University in 1978.

The Institution of Engineers (India)

AMIE was established in 1920 in Kolkata, West Bengal and is acclaimed to have pioneered nonformal education in Engineering. IEI (I) conducts an examination for its Associate
Membership(AMIE). This examination is considered to be on par with B.E. / B.Tech.[4] when
contemplated as an eligibility qualification to write competitive examinations like the Indian
Civil Service, Indian Engineering Services, GATE, etc., and for employment in Government,
public and private sectors in India. This qualification is recognised by Ministry of HRD,
Government of India as equivalent to B.E./ B.Tech.
There are 2 sections, namely Section A and Section B, who passed both of section he will be
chartered engineer(CEng), chartered engineer(CEng) is considered as Bachelor's degree in all
National and International bodies.

Polytechnic Institutes
In India there are Institutions which offer three year diploma in engineering post Tenth class .
These institutes have affiliation from state bord of technical education of respective state
governments. after which one can apply for post of junior engineer or continue higher studies by
appearing for exams of AMIE to become an engineering graduate.

Sai Polytechnic College, Sri Sai University, Palampur Pathankot Amritsar.

Pusa Polytechnic being one of the famous Polytechnic in India.

Government Polytechnic, Mumbai.

Government Polytechnic Lucknow.

Government Polytechnic Nainital.

Government Polytechnic Nilokheri.

Government Polytechnic Barabanki.

Government Polytechnic, Nagpur.

Government Polytechnic, Anantnag, Jammu & Kashmir

List of States in India by number of Engineering Institutes

S.No State/Union Territory Number of Engineering Institutes[5]
1
Andhra Pradesh
900
2
Arunachal Pradesh
3
3
Assam
22
4
Bihar
30
5
Chandigarh
9

S.No State/Union Territory Number of Engineering Institutes[5]

6
Chhattisgarh
75
7
Delhi
37
8
Goa
10
8
Gujarat
120
9
Haryana
342
10 Himachal Pradesh
54
11 Jammu & Kashmir
28
12 Jharkhand
33
13 Karnataka
210
14 Kerala
198
15 Madhya Pradesh
285-310
16 Maharashtra
739
17 Manipur
2
17 Meghalaya
4
18 Orissa
125
19 Puducherry
21
20 Punjab
221
21 Rajasthan
338
22 Sikkim
3
23 Tamil Nadu
934
24 Tripura
2
25 Uttar Pradesh
466
26 Uttarakhand
4
27 West Bengal
155
Total
5672

See Also

List of Indian engineering colleges before 1947

References
[6]

1. Engineering colleges in India -at Indian child.Com

2. "The World's Best Engineering Schools". Business Insider. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
3. http://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/bricsrankings/2013#sorting=rank+country=+stars=false+search=

4. http://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings-articles/brics-rankings/topuniversities-india
5. "AICTE". Aicte-india.org. Archived from the original on 21 April 2012. Retrieved 15
February 2013.
6. List of all engineering colleges in Tamil Nadu
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