Govt. Engineering Colleges : A review on academics & placements

Govt. Engineering colleges run by State Govts are preferred by lot of top rankers from the State conducted CET or AIEEE  ( Whatever be the criterion for admissions).

Even the parents also give preference to Govt colleges over good private engineering colleges.
If one is not able to make it to IITs,NITs,IIITs all under Central Govt ,then the first preference is for Govt Colleges in the States from where one belongs to.

These Govt. colleges attract a good talent pool of students and some even have the quality of admitted students comparable to some NITs.There is not a big gap in the ranks of students who got admitted into NITs and these Govt colleges run by respective State Govts.
But if we compare the quality of academics and placements, the difference is huge.

This is more in Govt Engineering Colleges in the North Indian States. Barring a few colleges, the others are just giving a very average scope of learning and job prospects for the admitted students.
The placements are just 20-30%.  A lot of colleges does not even have full fledged placement cells. The Professor from some department has been given the additional responsibility for T&P department which results in a handful of companies for the campus placements with very mediocre companies & salary packages. Even a lot of private colleges are doing better than these Govt. colleges even when quality of admitted students in these private colleges is not at par with these Govt. colleges.

The Govts should take a serious view in this regard and should discuss with the Directors / Principals about their requirements so that the improvements could be done faster.
20-30% final placements show that hardly the efforts are put in for training and industry relations.
These colleges have lot of resources at their disposal to make them centres of excellence but to utilize these resources to the maximum should be strived from all stakeholder

Aspiring students and parents need to be more informed while making a decision of taking admissions in govt. colleges.

AIEEE 2012 online Vs offline mode

CBSE,the authority to conduct All India Engineering Entrance Examination ( AIEEE) had started with online mode in 2011 also but in a very limited way and the response was also very very limited.Candidates were free to choose the mode of examination and a maximum of one lakh candidates could appear for online but hardly 5000 opted for this option out of 11lakh plus aspirants.
For AIEEE 2012, CBSE again has both online and offline mode but this year CBSE has made the provision to ensure that the number of online aspirants should be reasonably very high and 22 cities ( all big cities in India) will have only online mode of examinations.Those who wish to take offline exam from these cities have to move to other cities.
Conducting online test could have lot of plus points. A lot of authorities either conducting or contemplating to conduct online tests.But in other tests the authorities have a single mode of examination for all candidates,so there is no scope of confusion among the aspirants.
But the matter of  debate in dual mode adopted by CBSE for AIEEE is on the issue of level playing fields between the two modes for the same test. For an entrance examination of the magnitude and of importance like AIEEE, the most critical part is to make sure that both offline & online version should not give any process or physical advantage to the candidates by virtue of which the score or ranks could be affected.
The opinions in these 22 cities are very divided among all stakeholders whether students & their parents, Coaching institutions or mentors in selecting online or offline mode.
The majority feel this safe to go for offline mode rather than experimenting with online mode.The type and level of concerns are also very varied.
Some have apprehension in regard to the the ability of the authorities to conduct online exam on such a mass scale without any snag as was happened with the first online attempt for CAT. Some feel that if they will choose offline ,then pressure of traveling to other cities could impact on the performance and others are of the opinion that online version will give them the advantage to choose the time and day or even some extra days for preparation.
But these cant be the major cause for concern as far as the level playing field in both modes are concerned.Thorough preparation for AIEEE syllabus requires long consistent hard work & intelligence and to think that getting extra 10-15 days to appear for exam can give someone advantage over others might not be so convincing.
If we analyse a bit deep into the examination ,then there could be two-three issues that could have some impact on level playing fields in two modes.Though these are just assumptions and may or may not applicable to all aspirants.As there are some aspirants who are so thoroughly prepared that these issues are immaterial for them.
But still if we analyse the previous year scores ,there are even 1-1.5 thousand candidates who score equal marks and this was very common among the students in the bracket of ranks 25000-50000. So here even a difference of 3-4 marks could result in a rank difference of 5000.
One important point in these two modes could be on level of difficulty:
If we assume 5-6 lakh candidates appear for online exam,then the question bank for each subject needed would be quite large considering the trend that questions never get repeated.To keep this large number of questions at the same difficulty level is not that easy.There is no idea given by CBSE as how many students will appear in one shift each day and whether all these candidates who will appear in the same shift on a given day will have same questions.
So there are two different scenarios for difficulty level viz
 a. level of difficulty among the online aspirants
 b. the level of difficulty in comparison to Pen –Paper mode & online aspirants.

Even in AIEEE 2011,when the entrance exam was held twice that mean only two set of question papers were there but still we heard lot of different voices on the level of difficulty.
In addition this might imply on online aspirants for even wider and thorough coverage of syllabus as to have large number of questions means wider coverage of syllabus and more conceptual nature of questions.
The other point to be considered for level playing field in these two modes could be the ease to attempt questions:
As the questions in AIEEE test are very conceptual, analytical & calculation based ,the synchronization for viewing and understanding the question on screen and immediately solving with the help of  Pen –Paper might someway affect not  all but to a lot of candidates because to have this continous neck & eye movement from computer screen to rough sheet could be a trouble maker.Even in the mock test which are available now the candidates should test this neck movement for entire 3 hours to check for any pain or discomfort in the neck.
Whereas for Pen Paper mode,the neck movement will not be there in viewing and solving the questions on the rough sheet and calculations could be done faster.Though for online aspirants clicking the answer could save time in comparison to circling in offline mode.
Even the panel from IIT Council in a presentation for conducting IIT JEE online has the major issues in regard to the deep conceptual and analytical nature of questions which needs lot of  Pen & Paper calculations to solve the questions.In the present format the Pen-paper mode seemed more comfortable to the panel.
Still we hope that the authorities will take care of even the minutes of issues so that there wont be any discrepencies in the conduct of examinations in online & offline mode.

Top Engineering Colleges in India

Top Engineering Colleges in India
Most Preferred IITs & NITs in India in 2011

Engineering education is no doubt the most sought after career option after 12^th class in India.
Getting admission into Top Engineering Colleges is quite tough and competitive and requires lot of dedication & hard work.
Every year close to 13 lakh students appear for various Engineering Entrance exams.
There are just few thousands seats available in Top Engineering colleges like IITs and NITs.
In this article, we have ranked the most preferred IITs & NITs on the basis of preference by the top rank holders in JEE 2011 & AIEEE 2011.

On the basis of the preference of JEE 2011 rank holders under General Category,the ranking of IITs are:

1. IIT Bombay
2. IIT Delhi
3. IIT Kanpur
4. IIT Madras
5. IIT Kharagpur
6. IIT Roorkee
7. IIT Guwahati
8. IT BHU
9. ISM Dhanbad

 The IIT Bombay and IIT Delhi are the most favourites.
 In IIT Bombay the 70% seats out of the total seats under General  category were filled up under the JEE rank 1000 and even IIT Bombay was preferred by close to 65-67 students among the Top 100 JEE rank holders under General category.
In IIT Delhi around 59% seats out of the total seats under General category were filled up under the JEE rank 1000.
The most preferred branches were Electrical,CSE,Mechanical in the Top IITs.

Similarly on the basis of AIEEE 2011 top rank holders, the NITs are also ranked on the basis of preference by Top rank hoders in AIEEE 2011.
NITs are ranked on two basis. In NITs 50% seats are filled by All India candidates and the remaining 50% seats are filled by the candidates from the state where particular NIT is situated.
Ranking on the basis of All India level Preference under General Category.
We have considered the preference of the top rankers for the 6 most common engineering streams viz Chemical,Civil,CSE,Electrical / EEE,ECE, Mechanical Engg.

1. NIT Surathkal
2. NIT Trichy
3. NIT Warangal
4. MNIT Allahabad
5. MNIT Jaipur
6. NIT Calicut
7. NIT Kurukshetra
8. VNIT Nagpur
9. MANIT Bhopal
10. NIT Rourkela
11. SVNIT Surat
12. NIT Durgapur
13. NIT Jamshedpur
14. NIT Jalandhar
15. NIT Hamirpur
16. NIT Raipur
17. NIT Patna
18. NIT Silchar
19. NIT Srinagar
20. NIT Agartala

The other ranking is on the basis of preference by Top rank holders for both All India level and Home State Level.
We have done these two rankings as the candidates in some states are more competititve than in others.This ranking also gives us the idea about the NITs which has the maximum top rank holders.
If we take the performances of the candidates from different states, Andhra Pradesh has the highest number of candidates among the top rankers followed by UP & Rajasthan.So in NITs like Warangal,Allahabad & Jaipur,the Home State Cadidates have far better ranks than the Home state candidates for other NITs.
In Karnataka & Tamilnadu, the number of candidates who appeared for AIEEE were quite less as compared to the candidates who appeared for respectctive State level tests KCET & TNEA.
In Karnataka, only close to 20,000 students appeared in AIEEE in comparison to the approximate 75,000 students appeared in Karnataka CET for engineering.
Likewise in Tamilnadu, only close to 26,000 candidates appeared for AIEEE in camparison to the 1,48,000 students appeared for Tamilnadu Engineering Admissions ( TNEA) 2011.

The rankings on the basis of preference by Top rank holders both at All India level as well as well as Home State level are as follows:

1. NIT Warangal
2. MNIT Allahabad
3. MNIT Jaipur
4. NIT Surathkal
5. NIT Trichy
6. VNIT Nagpur
7. MANIT Bhopal
8. NIT kurukshetra
9. NIT Calicut
10. NIT Surat
11. NIT Rourkela
12. NIT Jamshedpur
13. NIT Hamirpur
14. NIT Durgapur
15. NIT Jalandhar
16. NIT Patna
17. NIT Raipur
18. NIT Silchar
19. NIT Srinagar
20. NIT Agartala

In these rankings also, we can put these NITs under three categories :
The First Category has the NITs like Warangal,Allahabad,Jaipur,Surathkal, Trichy Second Category has NITs like Kurukshetra, Nagpur & Calicut.
Third Category has the remaining NITs where the Cut offs specially the Home State Cut offs ranks are reasonably high.
Even there are lot of other State Govt and Private College / Universities who are ranked better than the NITs in third category.

Some other important statistics related to NITs are :
Only 21 candiates out of Top 1000 rank holders in AIEEE 2011 took admissions in NITs.
Only 757 candidates under General category out of Top 5000 rank holders in AIEEE 2011 took admissions in NITs.There were close to 4400 General candidates out of Top 5000 candidates.

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