Students aspiring for a career in engineering are in a dilemma at many of the times – which engineering colleges to go for and what are the admission processes for these colleges? This blog post is dedicated to these students (as well as to their parents/guardians to guide them).

At first let me tell you that the term “Best College” is always so controversial – the surveys for ranking the colleges are done by many organisations and the methodologies used by them also vary from one to another. However, we can safely conclude that among the top-rung colleges, the rankings itself would not differ that much – since the good colleges are always good, regardless of whether they occupies rank 1st or 75th.

Therefore, I narrowed down my search for the best engineering colleges to the ranking done by Outlook-GFK-Mode Survey-2009, which had published a list of top-75 engineering colleges in India in June 2009. You can find the survey statistics along with the methodology here.

What are the admission process/name of the entrance exam for these 75 best engineering colleges in India? I had a hard time finding the answer to this question, as websites of many of these best engineering colleges either does not have an “Admission” section or “Admission” section is poorly maintained with little information. You can find the list of these 75 best engineering colleges below, along with the name of the entrance exams. You can visit the admission section of the college websites directly by clicking on the name of these engineering colleges.

In the college list, you would find name of more than one entrance exam for some of the engineering colleges – the reason being that certain percentage of admission is done on the basis of one engineering entrance exam, while the rest are done through another entrance exam/based on merit. For instance, in Delhi College of Engineering (DCE), 15% seats are admitted for outside-Delhi Region candidates through AIEEE, while remaining 85% seats for Delhi Region candidates is done through CEE, Delhi. Also (G) denotes Govt. college while (P) stands for Private colleges.

1. IIT Kharagpur (G), entrance exam name: IIT JEE
2. IIT Bombay (G), entrance exam name: IIT JEE
3. IIT Kanpur (G), entrance exam name: IIT JEE
4. IIT Delhi (G), entrance exam name: IIT JEE
5. IIT Madras (G), entrance exam name: IIT JEE
6. BITS Pilani (P), entrance exam name: BIT SAT
7. IIT Roorkee (G), entrance exam name: IIT JEE
8. IT-BHU Varanasi (G), entrance exam name: IIT JEE
9. IIT Guwahati (G), entrance exam name: IIT JEE
10. College of Engg, Anna Univ Chennai (G), entrance exam name: TNEA
11. ISM Univ Dhanbad (G), entrance exam name: IIT JEE
12. Jadavpur Univ, Faculty of Engg Calcutta (G), entrance exam name: WB JEE
13. BIT Mesra Ranchi (P), entrance exam name: AIEEE
14. DCE Delhi (G), entrance exam name: CEE, DELHI & AIEEE
15. NIT Trichy (G), entrance exam name: AIEEE
16. NIT Warangal (G), entrance exam name: AIEEE
17. PEC University of Technology Chandigarh (G), entrance exam name: AIEEE
18. NIT Suratkal (G), entrance exam name: AIEEE
19. PSG College of Technology Coimbatore (P), entrance exam name: TNEA
20. Bengal Engg & Sc Univ, Shibpur Howrah (G), entrance exam name: WB JEE
21. Thapar Inst of Engg & Tech Patiala (P), entrance exam name: AIEEE
22. Motilal Nehru National Inst of Tech Allahabad (G), entrance exam name: AIEEE
23. NSIT Delhi (G), entrance exam name: CEE, DELHI & AIEEE
24. VNIT Nagpur (G), entrance exam name: AIEEE
25. IIIT Hyderabad (P), entrance exam name: AIEEE
26. Govt College of Engineering Pune (G), entrance exam name: MHT-CET
27. IIIT Allahabad (G), entrance exam name: AIEEE
28. NIT Rourkela (G), entrance exam name: AIEEE
29. Harcourt Butler Tech Institute Kanpur (G), entrance exam name: SEE-UPTU
30. MNIT Jaipur (G), entrance exam name: AIEEE
31. SVNIT Surat (G), entrance exam name: AIEEE
32. NIT Calicut (G), entrance exam name: AIEEE
33. MANIT Bhopal (G), entrance exam name: AIEEE
34. VJTI Mumbai (P), entrance exam name: MHT-CET
35. College of Engineering Visakhapatnam (G), entrance exam name: EAMCET
36. Manipal Inst of Technology Manipal (P), entrance exam name: ENAT
37. NIT Kurukshetra (G), entrance exam name: AIEEE
38. Coimbatore Inst of Tech Coimbatore (G), entrance exam name: TANCET
39. VIT Vellore (P), entrance exam name: VITEEE
40. NIT Jamshedpur (G), entrance exam name: AIEEE
41. JNTU Hyderabad (G), entrance exam name: EAMCET
42. NIT Durgapur (G), entrance exam name: AIEEE
43. RVCE Bangalore (P), entrance exam name: COMEDK
44. ICT Mumbai University Mumbai (G), entrance exam name: AIEEE + MHT-CET
45. DA-IICT Gandhinagar (P), entrance exam name: AIEEE
46. MIT Pune (P), entrance exam name: AIEEE + MHT-CET
47. UVCE Bangalore (G), entrance exam name: KCET
48. SSN College of Engg Chennai (P), admission mode: Merit based.
49. UCE, Osmania University Hyderabad (G), entrance exam name: EAMCET
50. Nirma Univ of Science & Tech Ahmedabad (P), entrance exam name: AIEEE + GUCET
51. College of Engineering Thiruvananthapuram (G), entrance exam name: KEAM
52. Sardar Patel Coll of Engg Mumbai (P), entrance exam name: MHT-CET
53. NIT Hamirpur (G), entrance exam name: AIEEE
54. PES Inst of Technology Bangalore (P), entrance exam name: COMEDK
55. SRM Institute of Sc & Tech Chennai (P), entrance exam name: SRMEEE
56. BMS College of Engineering Bangalore (P), entrance exam name: AIEEE + COMEDK
57. Amrita Inst of Tech & Sc Coimbatore (P), entrance exam name: AEE
58. SASTRA Thanjavur (P), entrance exam name: AIEEE + Class XII %age
59. National Institute of Engg Mysore (P), entrance exam name: KCET
60. Bangalore Inst of Tech Bangalore (P), entrance exam name: KCET
61. Chaitanya Bharathi Inst of Tech Hyderabad (P), entrance exam name: EAMCET
62. MEPCO Schlenk Engg College Sivakasi (P), entrance exam name: TNEA
63. ICFAI Inst of Sc & Tech Hyderabad (P), entrance exam name: ATIT
64. JNTU Kakinada(G), entrance exam name: EAMCET
65. SJ College of Engineering Mysore (P), entrance exam name: PGCET
66. NIT Jalandhar (G), entrance exam name: AIEEE
67. MS Ramaiah Inst of Tech Bangalore (P), entrance exam name: COMEDK
68. Satyabhama Engg College Chennai (P), entrance exam name: SUCEE
69. Karunya University Coimbatore (P), entrance exam name: KEE
70. Shri Ramdeobaba KN Engg College Nagpur (P), entrance exam name: AIEEE+MHT-CET
71. Kongu Engg College Erode (P), entrance exam name: TANCET
72. NIT Raipur (G), entrance exam name: AIEEE
73. SGS Inst of Tech & Sc Indore (G), entrance exam name: MP PET
74. NIT Patna (G), entrance exam name: AIEEE
75. IIIT Bangalore (P), entrance exam name: Merit based.

In addition to above information, I would like to post below links for the Engineering College Entrance Exams, based on which the admission is done in above colleges:

Hope above information on admission process/entrance exam for the best engineering colleges in India helps you in making an informed choice on which entrance exam/engineering college to go for.

However, I feel that you should take a holistic approach while appearing in engineering entrance exam – you should prepare for and appear in as many entrance exams as possible, as all of these entrance exams uses the same three subject papers: Physics, Chemistry & Maths, in varying degree of difficulty. In a future blog post, I would cover how to do it: Engineering Entrance Exam List with exam dates.