Kudos to IIT Kanpur!

NEW DELHI: IIT Kanpur has bagged the honor of being the number one engineering college in the country on the basis of placement, infrastructure, intellectual capital and industry interface. According to the DQ-IDC-NASSCOM survey of best tech schools in India, IIT-Kanpur is followed by its counterparts in Mumbai, Chennai and Kharagpur among the top 20 in the list of 116 engineering colleges across the country that took part in the survey.





According to the press release, 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 participate 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.