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It was a tough battle that the Institute of Technology, BHU fought with the IITs, but had to be content with the seventh place. Placement wise, IT-BHU put up a fairly satisfactory show. Seventy-six companies visited the campus during the recruitment season and over 42 offers were over Rs 5.5 lakh. Nearly 32% of the recruiters were from the IT industry and the highest offer made was above Rs 7.64 lakh per annum. Faculty and academic environment is also IT-BHU's area of strength. HR perception remains relatively low for the institute.

An important finding is that despite the fact the IT-BHU is just behind the IITs, the difference between the overall score between IIT-Chennai and IT-BHU is of nearly 20 points. In fact, IIT-Roorkee is ahead if IT-BHU by over 8 points. Therefore, while the result catapult IT-BHU in the big league yet again, the institute is still far from the height at which the IITs are placed.

It's been an impressive performance by the Delhi College of Engineering, up six places. There were 60 companies at the campus this year. UK-based Laing O'Rourke, a non-IT company in the construction space, made the highest offer of Rs 9 lakh per annum.

Offers recorded an increase with the average rising to Rs 5.4 lakh per annum. In fact, DCE maintains its performance on placements this year as well with some of the biggest names in the IT industry making a beeline to its campus. Academic environment is a concern, given that the student-teacher ratio is rather poor. DCE also needs to get into higher number of collaborations with different government and non-government bodies to improve its association with the industry.

Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology keeps its placement records intact. With a score of 27.6 on placements, NSIT ranks at #7 on the placement scorecard, ahead of IIT-Kanpur and the NITs. The highest offer received so far this year is Rs 13 lakh from HLS Asia. Average salaries have also gone up by more than 16% to Rs 3.8 lakh per annum. There seems to be an even balance between the proportion of companies from the manufacturing and IT sector visiting the institute. NSIT is also offering a new part-time MTech program this year in Information Systems under the Division of Computer Engineering. Industry interface needs serious ramping and so does brand equity.

Jadavpur University is another new entrant into the top 20, up five places this year. JU's Engineering & Technology department is one of the seven engineering colleges short-listed by the HRD Ministry for the status of the IITs. A place in the top 20 is definitely a step in the right direction for JU. There were 130 companies during campus recruitments this year, largest among all institutes. Regular names included Satyam, Wipro, Cognizant and TCS, although the highest offer of Rs 7.5 lakh per annum came from a non-technology major, Indian Oil. However, the proportion of IT companies coming for recruitments still remains low, at around 16%, with ITeS contributing another 5%.

JU scores high on faculty and academic environment. The institute also has collaborations with several universities in the UK and Italy. Infrastructure and industry interface emerge as pain points. Brand equity is also an area of concern.

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