IIT Kanpur tops the tech school survey

IIT Kanpur has bagged the honor of being the number one engineering college
in the country on the basis of place-ment, infrastructure, intellec-tual capital
and industry inter-face. According to the DQ-IDC-NASSCOM survey of best tech
schools in India, IIT-Kanpur is followed by its counterparts in Mumbai, Chennai
and Kharag-pur among the top 20 in the list of 116 engineering colleges across
the country that took part in the survey.

According to the press rele-ase, the rest in top 10 include IT BHU, Thapar
Institute of Engineering & Technology and Netaji Subhas Institute of
Technology. Some 'perceived' heavyweights like BITS Pilani and DCE have got
knocked out of the top 10 list, while IIT Delhi decided not to particip-ate for
some internal reasons.

The release further states that placements in these engineering institutes
have seen a general upturn with the salary increase of 10 percent -15 percent
over last year. IT majors Like Infosys, Wipro and TCS are the top recruiters and
in some colleges they have recruited over 100 students by themselves.

(CyberMedia News)