Regional Champs

There are four NITs in the Top 20 this year, but none in the top 10. NIT-Trichy

has moved down five places to number 13. Motilal Nehru National Institute of

Technology (MNNIT) is down seven places and NIT-Warangal (down five places) and

NIT-Calicut, a new entrant in the Top 20 are the other three. Incidentally, NIT-Suratkal

and NIT-Kuruskshetra did not participate in the survey.

NIT-Warangal



At #12, it tops the charts among NITs. Set up in 1959, REC-Warangal, later

renamed NIT was the first regional engineering college in the country. NIT-Warangal's

placement record stays intact this year as well with the institute performing

better than IIT-Bombay and BITS-Pilani. This year, there were 124 recruiters who

came for campus placements and prominent recruiters include the likes of TCS,

Oracle, IBM, Mindtree and Cognizant. NIT-Warangal does fairly well on

infrastructure. The institute's central library is computerized with barcode

facility and the computer center is well equipped to meet the demand of 3,000

students and 200 faculty members on the campus. There is also a campus-wide LAN

and a dedicated Internet connectivity facilitating computerization and

modernization of most of the college activities. The institute has slipped in

terms of industry interface, ranking far lower than most of the institutes

participating in the survey. 

How They Compare

NIT-Trichy



At #13, it does well on placements but slips on all other parameters. Of the

135 recruiters, Google made the highest offer of Rs 8.8 lakh per annum. The

compensation average also jumped to Rs 3.4 lakh from Rs 3 lakh per annum last

year. Nearly 41% of the recruiters were from the IT industry. NIT-Tiruchirapally

also had some recruiters from ITeS this year, which was 2.2% of the total.

Infrastructure, though not up to the standard of the IITs, is still at par with

the average. The hallmark of this NIT-Trichy campus is the octagonal computer

center. It maintains a campus-wide LAN with enough systems to provide computer

training to 1,000 students at a time, a CAD/CAM center, a library, 8 Mbps

Internet connection through STPI, centralized printing facility, seminar and

conference facilities, apart from an in-house maintenance facility. Although

NIT-Trichy signed an MoU with BHEL, the institute slips sharply on industry

interface.

NIT-Calicut



A new entrant in to our Top 20 this year. In fact, NIT-Trichy beats Calicut

by just a whisker-the difference between the composite scores of Calicut and

Trichy is just 0.2. Placement performance remains better than average but not at

par with the other NITs in the Top 20. Calicut does fairly well on academic

environment and infrastructure. Calicut suffers badly on industry interface. Low

recruiter's perception also plays spoilsport. In fact, NIT-Calicut does better

than its counterpart from Trichy on all counts, except placements and that is

what makes the key difference to the scores in the overall tally. Interestingly,

recruiter perception on an average remains fairly high for all NITs.

MNNIT-Allahabad



This fourth and last NIT in the Top 20, shows a fair bit of consistency too.

However, the institute slips seven places to take the 19th position. MNNIT

performs well on academic environment, according to our survey results.

Traditionally, MNNIT has a rich culture of pursuing academic excellence and

maintaining conducive environment for overall personality development of its

students. In addition to their excellent teaching, the faculty members are

actively involved in research and consultancy. A large number of research

projects and consultancy have been undertaken. The academic programs offered by

MNNIT are comprehensive and are continuously being updated to keep pace with

latest developments and innovations in associated disciplines, with necessary

blend of IT and management. Newer programs, especially at postgraduate level,

are regularly added in accordance with industry needs and academic requirements.

MNNIT is also in the process of adding two more BTech degree programs next year,

and will also help potential students of Master of Science inculcate

interdisciplinary research work. MNNIT, however, performs rather poorly on HR

perception especially in comparison to the others in the same bracket.