Top 20 Technology Schools in India

Its been long time since we have published any of the top lists – Trak.in used to see a lot of them in 2008, somehow it went down in 2009. But 2010 promises to be different. We will be making concentrated effort on bringing you various Top Lists ( They serve as a good reference point, and they are good for building blog traffic as well :)

Coming back, IDC, one of the leading research firms in association with Dataquest, recently released list of “Top 20 Technology Colleges in India”. Here are some of the highlights of that survey.

IIT Kharagpur was adjudged the best Technology School followed by IIT Delhi and IIT Madras. Infact, 6 out of top 10 Technology colleges featured IIT colleges, which is why IITians are so highly regarded, not only in India, but across the globe.

BITS Pilani, which I regarded quite highly is placed at number 8. Somehow, I always thought that BITS was one of the top 3 technology schools in India !

Top 20 Technology Schools in India:

(Update: IIT Mumbai has not participated in this Survey)

IDC-Dataquest Top 20 T Schools 2009
Rank	Name of T School	City	Overall Score
1	IIT Kharagpur	Kharagpur	81.92
2	IIT Delhi	New Delhi	78.49
3	IIT Madras	Chennai	78.41
4	IIT Kanpur	Kanpur	77.12
5	IIT Roorkee	Roorkee	72.73
6	IIT Guwahati	Guwahati	72.41
7	IIIT Hyderabad	Hyderabad	69.27
8	BITS Pilani	Pilani	68.89
9	NIT Surathkal	Surathkal	64.83
10	Institute of Technology, BHU	Varanasi	63.84
11	NIT Warangal	Warangal	62.98
12	Delhi Technological University (DCE)	New Delhi	62.88
13	Birla Institute of Technology Mesra	Ranchi	62.12
14	IIIT Allahabad	Allahabad	61.45
15	NIT TiruchirapalliI	Tiruchirapalli	57.62
16	NIT Calicut	Calicut	57.59
17	Netaji Subhash Institute of Technology	New Delhi	57.22
18	Anna University	Chennai	54.99
19	Jadavpur University	Kolkata	54.27
20	Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information Communication Technology	Gandhinagar	53.23
Source: IDC Dataquest Top T Schools

How top Technology Colleges fared in Placements in 2009

We all know 2009 was not a good year for placements – Total placements fell to 73% from 84% the previous year. However there were 16 out of top 111 Technology colleges that managed to get 100% placements.

One would imagine that these 16 colleges would be similar to the list given above. After all, better colleges get better placements. But that does not seem to be so. There were a few colleges who did not figure in the top 20 technology colleges list, but managed to attain 100% placements. Really commendable, I must say.

Here are the 16 colleges that attained 100% placements:

Colleges with 100% Placements:: IDC-Dataquest T Schools 2009
1	Amity School of Engineering & Technology	Noida
2	BITS Pilani	Pilani
3	College of Engineering and Technology Bhubaneswar	Bhubaneswar
4	Dhirubhai Ambani Institute Of Information Communication Technology	Gandhinagar
5	IIT Kanpur	Kanpur
6	Institute Of Technology, BHU	Varanasi
7	Institute of Technology, Nirma University	Bhubaneswar
8	Jadavpur University, Kolkata	Kolkata
9	NIT Durgapur	Durgapur
10	Netaji Subhash Institute of Technology	New delhi
11	NIT Calicut	Calicut
12	NIT Kurukshetra	Kurukshetra
13	NIT Surathkal	Surathkal
14	Orissa Engineering College	Bhubaneswar
15	R.V. College of Engineering	Bangalore
16	University College Of Engineering Osmania University	Hyderabad
Source: IDC Dataquest Top T Schools

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