Top 50 Engineering College in India

Last few days were pretty busy for JobKiBaate team. After hard work of 1 month we are able to devise statistical method to ‘rank Engineering Colleges’ across country.

Details are posted as below:

 

Why engineering colleges ranking?

Consider this:

Ø  For fresher to decide the best option available.

Ø   For colleges to know what they need to improve and where they stand in the pecking order.

Ø   For recruiters and human resource managers to decide the college they would visit for campus interviews and negotiates pay packages.

What is new in this ranking? 

For giving rank to the best engineering college in India, I have considered the following parameters

1.   Selection process                 -20%

2.   Academic excellence            -20%

3.   Infrastructure                       -20%

4.   Research work                    -20%

5.   Placement                           -20%

 

RANK	INSTITUTE NAME
1	Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
2	Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
3	Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
4	Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
5	Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
6	Birla Institute of Technology, Pilani
7	Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee
8	Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati
9	Institute of Technology, BHU
10	National Institute of Technology, Trichy
11	National Institute of Technology, Surathkal
12	National Institute of Technology, Warangal
13	Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad
14	International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad
15	Delhi Technological University (DCE), Delhi
16	Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology, Delhi
17	Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra
18	Jadavpur University
19	Anna University, Chennai,
20	National Institute of Technology, Allahabad
21	National Institute of Technology, Calicat
22	National Institute of Technology (MNIT), Jaipur
23	PEC University of Technology, Chandigarh
24	National Institute of Technology, Rourkela
25	Thapar University, Patiala
26	National Institute of Technology (SVNIT), Surat
27	National Institute of Technology (VNIT), Nagpur,
28	Indian Institute of Information Technology Allahabad
29	Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpur
30	Harcourt Butler Technological Institute, Kanpur
31	National Institute of Technology (MANIT), Bhopal
32	PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore
33	SASTRA, Thanjavur
34	VIT University Vellore
35	Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute (VJTI), Mumbai
36	National Institute of Technology, Durgapur
37	Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal
38	National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra
39	National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar
40	National Institute of Technology, Jamshedpur
41	Osmania University, Hyderabad
42	Amrita Institute of Technology & Science, Coimbatore
43	CUSAT Kochi
44	RV College of Engineering, Bangalore
45	College of Engineering, Calicut
46	Indian Institute of Information Technology, Gwalior
47	National Institute of Technology, Silchar
48	Coimbatore Institute of Technology, Coimbatore
49	Dhirubhai Ambani IICT, Gandhinagar
50	College of Engineering, Pune

Comment here about the Ranking:

What is Inside India's $35 PC?

It is a PC, not a toy. And it works quite fine. But the actual cost once it is commercially produced could be a little more...

It is not without reason that Renault-Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn called India the land from where he could learn some frugal engineering. While Ghosn may have had Tata Nano on his mind, the case, it seems, is no different when it comes to the PCs.

India's $35 PC—that has evoked extreme reactions from different sections—may not be a market ready product yet like Nano, but it is certainly not a toy. Dataquest managed to lay its hands on one of the devices and found that despite a few shortcomings, it is actually a working tablet with fairly smooth functionality.

First things first. It is actually an Android-based tablet, not Linux-based, as reported by a section of the media. The processor is an ARM 9 (Freescale i.MX233). It is encased in a rubber frame, and the look and feel is quite good. Since the PC has not been named yet, the shiny encryption on the rubberized cover is Android.

The tablet has  Wi-Fi connectivity, a bulit-in camera and has everything that one can expect from an Android Tablet: calendar, i-reader and other apps. It has a touch screen panel with a stylus and a virtual keyboard. On the left, there is a mini SD card slot, SIM card slot, two mini USB ports, a video out and a headphone jack too. It has internal memory of 2 GB. And the fact that there two USB ports available, one can easily fit in a USB keyboard and mouse if desired. It has a solar power option too, which though may not be an invention, is good enough if comes within the $35.

That is all about specs...

So then, what all can the little master essentially do? Already developed within the IIT systems, the tablet has preloaded educational software and most of the lectures are aimed to be delivered with it. Videos of lectures can be loaded to the tablet and students won’t necessarily have to miss one anymore. This writer had the opportunity to watch one by Prof T S Navarauan.

In the two hour long involvement with the device, besides getting a feel of it and trying hard to understand Prof Navarauan, this writer also managed to look at its other functions like the media player, open office, multiple content viewer, check mails and located CyberMedia office on Google Map, even greeted a friend on Skype and read few paragraphs using PDF reader. That is really a long list. And at one time one felt that one was probably overloading it with too many commands, but the good thing is it didn’t give up. It did not hang.

What, however, was a little difficult to deal with was that it doesn’t have a hard-drive. Another drawback is that  the webcam is on the back panel. Also, its 7″ 800×480 touchscreen was quite resistive – not bad but resistive. This is supposedly to bring down the cost, as a classy touchscreen is sure to bring up the cost largely. Android being the console, the software for it can be from anywhere. The device will always be dependent on open-source software, which I feel if used on a regular basis, would need some access to regular technical support. Microsoft has apprently already offered its Windows CE Software for the tablet.

What is $35 in $35 PC?

While the device passed the test, the story gets a little diluted when one comes to calculating the cost. The $35 that has got the world make notice, Dataquest learns, is broadly the material cost and not the total cost of the finished product. That means the production cost and other indirect costs are not included in this. Of course, the price will still be $35 because of subsidies, but the cost would be a little more. But considering the facts, it will be 20% to 40% extra, not 100% extra, if it comes to the commercial market.

This is how the cost break-up looks like: the ARM9 Processor costs $5, memory costs for $3, WiFi for $4, other discrete components for $3, battery for $5, and the 7″ 800×480 touchscreen for $15. That makes it $35.

The Story Behind the PC

The inspiration to make this tablet ,of course came from the MIT’s $100 Laptop, informs two people who have been closely associated with the project. In fact, unlike what has been reported by media, it did not come out of student projects. It was Kapil Sibal who was personally involved in ensuring that it happens. And his initial target was making a PC for $10. He apparently approached a few Indian companies but got lukewarm experience. It is then that he approached the institutes. Research scholars in four IITs—Bomaby, Madras, Kharagpur, and Kanpur—and IISc Bangalore—were put together for the project. It was all done centrally as many of the people who worked on teams at each of the locations, in fact, did not even know who was working in another institute. The motherboard design actually came from a student in VIT Vellore and the PCB was made by IIT Kanpur on the design. The idea was to make it at $10. But finally, it could go down to $35.

However, the research team members are hopeful that if the hardware price-drop continues, in future it could go down further.

About 8,500 colleges are expected to sign up for the first phase of roll-out. Reportedly, the Manipur Government has already announced its order of 75,000 tablets for the students of its state. The production is expected to start in next three months overseas but will be shifted back to the country after sometime.

It is learnt that the Chief of ‘One Laptop Per Child’ (OLPC), Nicholas Negroponte has invited the HRD ministry officials to visit Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and asked the Indian Government to make the laptop open for the students of other countries too. And you thought our calling it frugal engineering was just some journalistic excess?

Record 1359 Offers : Tata Consultancy Services Placement process at SASTRA Thanjavur

 

 

TCS visited SASTRA, Thanjavur on 7th, 8th and 9th December, 2010 and recruited astonishing 1359 students from there. After CTS show at VIT Vellore this is remarkable. TCS in past also recruited in big number from south but it seems highest ever one institute offers..

The process followed by them was aptitude test followed by an interview. Test was conducted online and contains 3 sections; interview was mainly focused on HR and technical questions.

  

Offer by the company:

 

Eligibility	B.Tech, M.Tech, MCA (60%+ in 10th, 12th & B.Tech/PG)
Salary	3.16LPA
Profile Offered	Assistant System Engineer Trainee
Location	Undisclosed
Date of visit	7th, 8th and 9th December 2010
Bond	2 Years’ service bond (Rs.50,000)

Placement Process Details:

Recruitment procedure: The process followed by TCS was: 

1. Aptitude Test (Online)

2. Personal interview

Aptitude Test:

-Online

-Quantitative: 80 minutes, 35 questions 

Questions asked by TCS

 

1) A game is played between 2 players and one player is declared as winner. All the winners from first round are played in second round. All the winners from second round are played in third round and so on. If 8 rounds are played to declare only one player as winner, how many players are played in first round

2) Ferrari S.P.A is an Italian sports car manufacturer based in Maranello, Italy. Founded by Enzo Ferrari in 1928 as Scuderia Ferrari , the company sponsored drivers and manufactured race cars before moving into production of street-legal vehicles in 1947 as Ferrari S.P.A. Throughout its history, the company has been noted for its continued participation in racing, especially in Formula One where it has employed great success . Rohit once bought a Ferrari. It could go 4 times as fast as Mohan's old Mercedes. If the speed of Mohan's Mercedes is 46 km/hr and the distance traveled by the Ferrari is 953 km, find the total time taken for Rohit to drive that distance.

3) A sheet of paper has statements numbered from 1 to 70. For all values of and from 1 to 70. Statement n says 'At least n of the statements on this sheet are false.' Which statements are true and which are false?

4) Middle earth  is a fictional land inhabited by Hobbits, Elves, dwarfish and men. The Hobbits and the Elves are peaceful creatures who prefer slow, silent lives and appreciate nature and art. The dwarfish and the men engage in physical games. The game is as follows. A tourney is one where out of the two teams that play a match, the one that loses get eliminated. The matches are played in different   rounds where in every round, half of the teams get eliminated from the tournament. If there are 8 rounds played in a knock-out tourney how many matches were played?

5)Given a collection of points P in the plane, a 1-set is a point in P that can be separated from the rest by a line, .i.e the point lies on one side of the line while the others lie on the other side.
The number of 1-sets of P is denoted by n1(P). The minimum value of n1(P) over all configurations P of 5 points in the plane in general position(.i.e no three points in P lie on a line) is

 
6)The citizens of planet negate are 8 fingered and have thus developed their decimal system in base 8. A certain street in negate contains 1000 (in base 8) buildings numbered 1 to 1000. How many 3s are used in numbering these buildings?

Personal Interview:

 

Interview was both TECH and HR

Tech interview:

In Tech interview following things were asked: DBMS - Normalization, SQL Queries, SQL Tuning OS - Mutex, Semaphores etc. C - Swapping without third variable, GCD / LCM, Fibonacci.

Mainly asked from your project and area of interest..

HR Interview: In HR normal questions were asked like why do you want to join us and why should I hire you etc.

Tell me about yourself?

Why should I hire you?

Why TCS?

Why IT sector?

Latest trend in IT sector?

How do you see yourself in 5 years?

 

Result:

Total: 1359

 

Company Profile: 

 

Tata Consultancy Services Limited (TCS Limited) is one of the world's largest providers of information technology, consulting, services and business-process outsourcing operations. As of 2007, it is Asia's largest and India's No.1 IT services firm with the largest number of employees among all the Indian IT companies with strength of over 100,000 IT consultants in 47 countries.   

HP review

Brand Value: Has a great brand name. A Fortune 11 company and the largest (sales wise) IT company with revenues of $100 billion +. First company of silicon valley, CA.

Career growth and onsite opportunities?Provides ample scope for career growth across different verticals Technical, managerial (production) , marketing , Planning etc. less onsite compared to Indian service IT giants.

How is work environment and how efficient is the communication b/w teams or department?Conducive work environment. Frustration levels are low which is key to the harmonious inter and intra team communications.

Work pressure/Work – life balance.Work and life cannot be balanced better than this.

Satisfaction with salary and quality of work.Salary at par with all tier I MNC (IBM ISL , TI , Philips ,Oracle) quality of work varies from project to project but generally good.

What type of work they do: Product development, Services etc. Or if mix of these then what at percent?Product : (STSD) 95% of the total (worldwide)
Services : (GDIC) less than 5% of the total

Job security. can’t say.

Some positives and negatives of the company.
positives : work culture.
negatives : No long term onsite.

Do you recommend your company to others? Yes or No and Why?yes , to those who have family commitments and need to stay in India most of the time. Those who like Innovations.
No , to those who need long term onsites and like to loaded with work always.

ORACLE review

Brand Value: Good Recognition

Career growth and onsite opportunities? NO onsite opportunity, no rapid promotion. But it will add value in your career.

How is work environment and how efficient is the communication b/w teams or department? Very good work env. No daily attendance required. All depend on your manager. You can communicate with your native language. Team meeting happen every month (like get together). So good interactions.

Work pressure/Work – life balance. It varies with projects. You get enough time to finish your work so not much worry.

Satisfaction with salary and quality of work: CTC will be high but in-hand monthly will not be much. SuperAnnuation and gratuity eat a lot, which you will get after 3 yrs and 5 yrs resp. You will get good work here but it depends on the team.

What type of work they do: Product development, Services etc. Or if mix of these then what at percent? Product dev.

Job security. Good

Some positives and negatives of the company. You will be branded but may not satisfied with monthly in-hand as compared to your CTC.

Do you recommend your company to others? Yes or No and Why? This is a good company to settle yourself as you have lot of freedom in work.

INFOSYS review

Brand value, Career growth and onsite opportunities?Good Brand Value, Career Growth Is Slowing Down, too slow as you grow above project manager, onsite is huge..

How is work environment and how efficient is the communication b/wteams or department?
Very good work environment..

Work pressure/Work – life balance.
Decent, Better than Wipro

Satisfaction with salary and quality of work.
Salary too low, Quality of work is low..

What type of work they do: Product development, Services etc. Or if mix of these then what at percent? 
Maintenance
 
Job security. 
Good..no one fired easily

Do you recommend your company to others? Yes or No and Why? 

For an average college, Infi is best..

Vital Statistics:Fresher salary, Total No of employees, India headcount, Normal %age salary hikes or any bonuses..

CTS review

Brand Value: Yuppie I guess Cognizant as potential advantage in this. It maintains a good brand in India. But its low salary puts it on the other side of this brandL

Career growth and on-site opportunities? Career growth is not very fast. Normally anybody has to wait for 3 years for first promotion as Associate from Programmer Analyst. Onsite opportunities depend on the individual project. But overall I guess in Cognizant onsite opportunities are more than any of the other companies like TCS/Wipro/Infy etc

How is work environment and how efficient is the communication b/w teams or department? Work Environment is not so good. My personal experience is pathetic in this company. In Chennai maximum of the members would be Tamil (this is obvious), but onsite meeting in my team is also in Tamil. So for me the work environment is pathetic.
Communication b/w departments are fine and I appreciate this.

Work pressure/Work – life balance. Depends on project, but overall its fine.
Satisfaction with salary and quality of work. Very very very poor. A simple example is the pay package for 2006 pass outs and 2007 passouts.I am 2006 batch. Our Package was 2.11(includes 20K incentive). Our Juniors were offered 2.50(includes 20K incentive).And our revise package w.e.f May 2007 is 2.60(20K incentive).So we have only 10K annually salary diff from our juniors .At the same time the salary of Infy and TCS for 2006 batch is 2.75L Plus. 3.01L for 2010 batch...Very bad quality of work overall.

What type of work they do: Product development, Services etc. Or if mix of these then what at percent? Mostly services.

Job security. 110% unless you are very poor performing (I don’t think anybody will be)

Some positives and negatives of the company. Not good if you want to develop your technical skills. Neither good in pay part. I don’t thing any positive part of this company.

Do you recommend your company to others? Yes or No and Why? A big No for friends. There are so many reasons which are already discussed.