Updated: September 15, 2020 5:27:52 pm
Engineer’s Day 2020: National Engineer Day is celebrated on September 15 to mark the anniversary of the birth of the eminent engineer Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya not only in India but also in Sri Lanka and Tanzania. Sir Visvesvaraya is widely known for solving problems related to irrigation in India. Some of his significant works include the irrigation system in the Deccan canals, inventing automatic gates intended to regulate the flow of water in the reservoirs.
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India is also home to Elattuvalapil Sreedharan, commonly known as ‘Metro Man’, Vinod Dham, known as ‘Father of the Pentium Chip’, and many other geniuses in the field of engineering. And many more follow in his footsteps so far. According to AISHE 2019 report, more than 30 lakh students study engineering or related subjects in India. In the main results of the recently concluded joint entrance examination (JEE), more than 10 lakh students had participated this year.
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On Engineer’s Day, here is the list of best engineering institutes in India and abroad for budding engineers from India.
List of the best engineering universities according to the NIRF 20200 ranking
Rank 1: IIT-Madras
Rank 2: IIT-Delhi
Rank 3: IIT-Bombay
Rank 4: IIT-Kanpur
Rank 5: IIT-Kharagpur
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Rank 6: IIT-Roorkee
Rank 7: IIT-Guwahati
Rank 8: IIT-Hyderabad
Rank 9: NIT-Tiruchirappalli
Rank 10: IIT-Indore
Best Non-IIT Engineering Institutes at NIRF 2020
Rank 9: NIT-Tiruchirappalli
Rank 13: NIT-Karnataka
Rank 14: Anna University
Rank 15: Vellore Institute of Technology
Rank 16: NIT-Rourkela
Rank 17: Jadavpur University
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Rank 18: Institute of Chemical Technology
Rank 19: NIT-Warangal
Rank 20: Amrita School of Engineering
Rank 23: NIT-Calicut
Rank 27: Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology
Rank 28: Jamia Millia Islamia
Rank 29: Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology
Rank 30: Birla Institute of Technology and Science
Rank 32: Amity Noida University
Rank 33: Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology
Rank 34: Siksha `O` Anusandhan
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Rank 35: Malaviya National Institute of Technology
Rank 36: Delhi University of Technology
Rank 37: Shanmugha Arts Sciences Research and Technology Academy
Rank 38: Birla Institute of Technology
Rank 39: Muslim University of Aligarh
Rank 40: NIT-Kurukshetra
QS 2021 Ranking
Rank 172: IIT-Bombay
Rank 185: IISc
Rank 193: IIT-Delhi
Rank 275: IIT-Madras
Rank 314: IIT-Kharagpur
Rank 350: IIT-Kanpur
World Ranking of University Subjects QS
Rank 1: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Rank 2: Stanford University
Rank 3: Cambridge University
Position 4: ETH Zurich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Rank 5: University of California, Berkeley (UCB)
Rank 6: University of Oxford
Rank 7: Imperial College London
Position 8: Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore
Rank 9: Tsinghua University
Rank 10: National University of Singapore
QS 2020 Subject Rankings: Indian Universities
Rank 44: IIT-Bombay
Rank 47: IIT-Delhi
Rank 86: IIT-Kharagpur
Rank 88: IIT-Madras
Rank 96: IIT-Kanpur
Rank 103: Indian Institute of Sciences
Rank 156: IIT-Roorkee
Rank 233: IIT-Guwahati
Rank 342: University of Delhi
Rank 373: Anna University
Band 401-450: Vellore Institute of Technology
Band 451-500: Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani
In the Times Higher Education Ranking (THE), fewer Indian engineering universities appear as seven IITs in Mumbai, Delhi, Kanpur, Guwahati, Madras, Roorkee and Kharagpur that did not participate in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings (THE ). Older IITs had raised concerns about their performance in the World University Rankings released in September.
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