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It is useful to recall the circumstances in which the IITs were born, and
subsequently nurtured. The Nalini Ranjan Sarkar Committee report submitted in
1946 paved the way for India's biggest brand-the IITs, post independence.
The NR Sarkar Committee used global benchmarking to define standards, without
knowing the term, by stating that “the proposed institutes should attain a
standard not less than Manchester and Massachusetts”. There was value seen in
the use of international faculty as evidenced by the presence of Professor RA
Kraus and Professor H Tischner in the original academic team of IIT-Kharagpur,
the first in the league of IITs established in 1952.
Now more than five decades later, the IITs remain the undisputed torchbearers
with excellence in technology education in India. The IITs have given the world
more global Indians than any other institute in India. Vinod Khosla, co-founder
of Sun Microsystems and now a partner in the venture capital firm Kleiner
Perkins Caufield & Byers; Arun Netravali, former president of Lucent
Technologies' Bell Labs; Kanwal Rekhi, former CTO of Novell, one of the
founders of The IndUS Entrepreneurs (TiE) and CEO of the first Indian-led
company publicly traded on Nasdaq; Padmasree Warrior, executive vice president
& CTO for Motorola; Arun Sarin, CEO of Vodafone; Narayanamurthy, chief
mentor, Infosys and the man instrumental in putting the Indian software industry
on the global map....the list goes on. And these names are just a minuscule
proportion of the IITians in the Silicon Valley and the world over.
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Rank 1
Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
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Placement Score
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32.2%
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Infrastructure Score
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7.7%
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Academic Environment
Score
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16.4%
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Industry Interface
Score
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4.2%
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Institute Response
Score
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60.5%
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HR Response Score
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24.3%
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Composite Score
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84.9%
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Highest Salary
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Rs 36 lakh
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Average Compensation
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Rs 6 lakh
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Key Recruiters
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IBM, Infosys, TCS
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Need to Ramp Up
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No of IT companies
vising the campus
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Rank 2
Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
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Placement Score
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31.2%
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Infrastructure Score
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7.8%
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Academic Environment
Score
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14.4%
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Industry Interface
Score
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4.6%
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Institute Response
Score
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58.0%
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HR Response Score
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25.0%
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Composite Score
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83.0%
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Highest Salary
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Rs 35 lakh
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Average Compensation
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RS 5.5 lakh
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Key Recruiters
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NA
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Need to Ramp Up
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Academic environment
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Rank 3
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
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Placement Score
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29.65%
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Infrastructure Score
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7.84%
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Academic Environment
Score
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13.09%
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Industry Interface
Score
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3.63%
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Institute Response
Score
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54.21%
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HR Response Score
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24.05%
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Composite Score
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78.25%
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Highest Salary
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NA
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Average Compensation
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NA
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Key Recruiters
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i-Flex, IBM, Infosys,
TCS
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Need to Ramp Up
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Placement/Industries
Interface
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In the presence of the mighty IITs there is little chance for other
institutes to take a lead in the race. All the IITs in the survey stay right on
top with some shuffle in the ranks. IIT-Madras displaces IIT-Kanpur to take the
top slot while IIT-Delhi comes at #2. A significant highlight of our study this
year is that the difference in scores between the topper and IIT-Kanpur at Rank
6 is 10.1 points. This implies that IIT-Chennai has ramped up on all counts to
beat all the other IITs. On placements it comes a close second to IIT-Guwahati,
which is the surprise package of the survey-up three places from last year,
ahead of IIT-Kanpur. Academic environment emerges to be the biggest strength of
IIT-Madras, with the highest number of faculty on permanent rolls and with PhDs.
Several studies have lent credibility to the fact that it is superior faculty
that creates knowledge and a culture of research and development. IIT-Madras
also scores above all IITs on average salaries offered (Rs 6 lakh) this year
with 45% of recruiters being IT companies so far. Page(s) 1 2
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