IIT JEE , AIEEE Forum - Institutes & Courses , Non IIT Institutes - Much saner college Rankings by DataQuest-CiOL

ambuj123

Dataquest (one of the leading IT Magazine ) and CIOL has been publisihing college ranking for da past 5 yrs and dey have come out with this yr ranking too .... and it's much better than stupid IndiaTImes one which gave VIT 10th Pos Gimme a brk .....

so here goes

http://dqindia.ciol.com/content/top_stories/2008/108060901.asp

and

http://dqindia.ciol.com/images08/Cover%20story%20table.pdf

Though BITS Pilani , IIT Bombay and NIT Calicut did not take part in dis ranking

nunoxic

No Doubt it is better than India Quest but i saw some rather unusual things :

1. NIT Nagpur isnt listed at all....is it that bad or it opted out ?
Same For Trichy

2. If u check up colleges of Mumbai/Pune
The Best Acc to the list is THakur n Next Best is Father Agnels

This is untrue
VJTI COEP SP VESIT KJ
Nothing ?
Thakur ?
NO Ways

That is a majoorrrr flaw
i doubt sooo many colleges refused to share info / opted out

kiit

the quality of DQ-IDC ranking is going down these yrs....as top T schools like IIT bombay NIT trichy Jadavpur university are nt participating
Moreover participation gone down frm 117 to 70 ...its amazing

nunoxic

yeah
good observation
even Jadavpur is out

sachinsethi21

wht i want to knw is..

how come DCE did not make it to the list ??

is it true tht NSIT had the highest individual placement offer throughout the country last year @ 45 L?? i mean.. considering the institutes which did not participate

kiit

VJTI, DCE NIT nagpur etc r amongst top T schools...they r out ...iit roorkey at 3rd....VIT at 17 th or 19 th ....these are unbelievable data.........

rooney

@kiit

They have themselves selected 70 instead of 110 instis.

And these rankings are more sane than India today.

And yes, the 45 lpa thing is true about NSIT.

rahulsharma3154

where is IIT MUMBAI

kiit

@ rooney

no boss!...........only 70 instis hve participated.......its clearly given in the magazine (i think u hve not read the magazine).....nd instis like IITB DCE Jadavpur NITT deserve to be there with ur NSIT......... isnt it...............

kishan12

see wat i think is.............Bits didnot participate coz it was given a low rank of 11 in the past survey.......

NIT trichy and suratkal did not coz they were placed way below warangal as warangal was at 8th spot.......

so nothing wrong with this ranking...........and wat i think is........only this ranking sees the facts and give rankinga not like seeing the past and giving.......

again this is personal opinion.........

rooney

@kiit

Ofcourse I have read the article. Let me reproduce the exact quote.

"The number of colleges finally participating in the survey has come down to 70 from 117 last year, as a result of more stringent norms that were applied this year while choosing the colleges".

So, it was DQ's own decision to apply harder norms to restrict the no. of colleges being chosen.

And I agree about DCE not being there wrong. And how can IIT B not be in top 3. But let me tell you this, many instis boycott rankings as a result of disagreement with the rankings given to them. Another reason is that the data which DQ asked from the instis did not reach them on time. These two reasons lead to some instis not taking part. When NSIT was given a completely baseless rank of 23 last year, there were sounds in college of not participating in the rankings as well. How can a insti go from 10 to 23 and then back from 23 to 10 , in space of 1 year each until some hidden treasure has been found or an atomic bomb dropped on it. So, rankings are not perfect.

www.bits360.com

From http://bitsianwings.blogspot.com ,

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BITS Pilani, IIT Bombay, NIT Trichy, NITK Surathkal, DCE, ISM Dhanbad and Jadhavpur University give Dataquest T-schools 2008 rankings a Skip
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A revolution has started.

After BITS Pilani decided to quit participating in India Today rankings since 2005, BITS decided to give the Dataquest 2008 rankings a skip too. IIT Bombay and NIT Trichy followed suit and quit participating in DQ rankings. Since 2006, NITK Surathkal has been giving these rankings a miss too. Jadhavpur university, another very reputed university in east-India (WB!) gave a miss to these rankings too. ISM Dhanbad isn't found in them either. DCE decided to ignore these rankings as well. Only 6 out of 20 NITs are visible in the rankings.

One wonders what credibility these rankings have, with India's major and most reputed universities deciding not to participate in them:

IIT Bombay
BITS Pilani
NIT Trichy
NITK Surathkal
Delhi College of Engineering (DCE)
ISM Dhanbad
Jadhavpur University

Arguably all the above universities have the potential to rank in top 15 universities in India, with 6 of them (IITB, BITS, NITT, NITK, DCE, ISM) having the potential to rank in top 10 too. If 6 out of top 10 potential frontrunners decide to give these rankings a miss, then surely the credibility of these rankings is doubtable.

Some Surprises in the rankings:

1. 14/20 NITs missing/did not participate.
2. DA IICT at 12th. Though I know it is an upcoming college, but surpassing IIIT-A, BIT-Ranchi, PSG Tech, MNNIT in a year feels undigestible.
3. New Horizon College of Engineering at 20th.
4. Amrita School of Engineering at 21st.
5. Agrasen at 25th.

All these were placed above Manipal Institute of Technology.

6. Almost all the colleges (Except AIT, PESIT, Galgotia) below the 30th rank are relatively unknown.

7. In HR perception MIT tops the list, while IIT Kharagpur, Guwahati are no where to be found.

8. A major flaw in these rankings is that they equate T-Schools with IT schools and take into account majorly IT placements and IT recruiters (During perception rankings). It's about time that they understood that T-Schools are "TECHNOLOGY" Schools imparting complete "ENGINEERING" skills to their students.

9. On a lighter note, the ranking lists IIT Madras as "IIIT Chennai". The last time I checked they were still called by the name of IIT Madras. Also I didn't know that they were calling IIIT-A as Indian Institute of "Informantion" Technology now-a-days.

It is about time that these magazines, which self-righteously take upon themselves the responsibility of publishing such rankings without any credibility, learn to either pursue responsible journalism, or decide to shut down their businesses. I would not be surprised if more reputed IITs/NITs decide to ignore these rankings which do nothing, but misguide the future generation of students.

You can check the rankings here:

http://dqindia.ciol.com/content/top_stories/2008/108060901.asp
http://dqindia.ciol.com/images08/Cover%20story%20table.pdf
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(The author did his EnI from BITS Pilani -Goa Campus , did his PS2 at Infineon ,Singapore and will be joining Harvard next sem.He can be contacted at bits360.com/forum , as "akaash.bits")

rooney

I agree with the above article. Thats why rankings suck.

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