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The Institute of Technology, affiliated to the Banaras Hindu University is the surprise package in our list of the top five T-Schools. IT BHU has been ranked at #5. This underdog has clearly beaten the likes of IIT Rourkee, BITS Pilani and the regional engineering colleges, now known as NITs, to take a march ahead.

To preserve its excellence and national character, the earlier system of region-wise admission (via merit lists) has been replaced by admission procedures through the Joint Entrance Examinations (JEE of the IITs) for undergraduate courses and Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE conducted by the IITs & IISc) for the post-graduate courses.

IT BHU has obtained a composite score of 72. In terms of objective data, the score is 49.6, while the recruiter's perception score is 22.4. That's phenomenal.

In the academic year 2004-05, 73 companies have come to the campus for recruitment. Over 35 of these companies are from the IT industry. Nearly 93% of the students have been placed in the last two years and the only institute that does better is IIT Guwahati. The highest compensation offered this academic year is Rs 7.38 lakh per annum by Trilogy E-business Software India, while the minimum is Rs 1.74 lakh. The average compensation was Rs 2.9 lakh per annum, in 2004-05. The top three recruiters this year were TCS (88 students), Infosys (82) and Wipro (47), a fact that lends a lot of credibility to the high perception score. Incidentally, IT BHU's placement score is higher than IIT Kharapur, the #4 in our survey

On parameters like faculty and intellectual capital, IT BHU has actually left the IITs behind and topped the chart. It has lived up to the old adage "Slow and steady wins the race".

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