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Academic Environment
Today the academic environment is a big contributor to India's IT excellence. Take for example the quality of faculty, the kind of research and development work done, the number of research papers written or the number of patents being filed. It is the right combination of these factors that creates centers of intellectual capital. Therefore, the average weightage given to the academic environment was increased to 20%. IIT-Madras performs the best on this parameter, leaving the rest behind by at least two points. IIT-Bombay comes second followed by IIT-Delhi as a close third.

The average score of the Top 20 institutes stand at 9.8, and nine institutes score above the average. In fact, according to the survey, academic environment emerges as an area of concern for IIIT-Allahabad, Thapar Institute of Technology, and even Delhi College of Engineering. However, the only other institute beyond the overall Top 20 that reaches close to the Top 20 average on this parameter is the Madras Institute of Technology.

The Placement Stars
The top five when it comes to placements are not just IITs. There are IIITs too. And the IIT that tops the placement scorecard is not IIT-Kanpur or IIT-Madras (the number one this year), but IIT-Guwahati. The latter saw 71 companies during campus placements and 58% of these were from the IT industry. The average salary is also up by over 28% for IIT-Guwahati, the highest offer coming from Schlumberger, a global oilfield and information services company with a major focus on energy. The IT boom in the East might have helped IIT-Guwahati gain significantly on placements.

  At #4, IIIT-Allahabad has beaten most IITs in placements. This year, all the 24 companies that came for campus placements are IT companies; the highest offer was made by Google, one of the hottest recruiters in the country today. In fact, some of the regular names at IIIT-Allahabad during placements are Sapient, Flextronics, i-Flex, HP, CSC, and Induslogic.

The Indian IT industry is on a roll. According to a recent Nasscom survey, the manpower strength of Indian IT Software and Services is 878,000 and ITeS is 415,000, at the close of FY 2005-06. IT software and services alone added 120,000 people to the workforce last fiscal. While brand remains one of the biggest drivers of good placements, a significant finding this year is that recruiters keep coming back to lesser-known places especially if earlier placements have yielded satisfactory results. At #8 this year, Institute of Technology, BHU enjoys high ratings in terms of HR perception, which is better than the NITs and the Delhi College of Engineering. In fact, it is this perception that is largely instrumental in creating brands. If BHU can work a little more on industry perception and increase its acceptance, it could be a reckoning force with respect to IT education and training.

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