Remember your very first computer with its boxy monitor and PacMan and the hypnotic screen savers that were the most beautiful visual you’d ever seen? This was the ‘90s, and the number of colleges churning out people who actually knew what to do with these magic machines was a couple of hundreds. Cue 2015 and that number is close to 5000 colleges offering Computer Engineering and IT related courses. Blame it on the parents who want all the kids in the country to be engineers, or blame it on the Indian desire to secure a stable career no matter what the cost, but this is what students wanting to pursue a Career in Computer Engineering[/b] have to wade through in this day and age.
The sheer number of Engineering Colleges in India seems to have had the opposite effect of what was intended. A lot of the newer entrants into the market are unregulated institutions that are low on quality of education, infrastructure and student life. The competition for the handful of the most prestigious tech institutes in India has grown cutthroat, with the Top Engineering Colleges in India[/b] taking in about 10 % of all potential Engineering students. If you want to have your Career in Computer Engineering going anywhere other than the nearest BPO hell, these are the colleges you should be looking at.
The Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are hallowed halls of tech education, dominating all “Top 10” Engineering college lists. There are 16 of them throughout the country, and admission to the Bachelors programmes in these institutions is based on a nationwide entrance exam called JEE (Joint Entrance Examination) – Advanced. The best IITs are the ones located in Bombay, Chennai, Delhi, and Kharagpur, the very first IITs ever in India, instituted during the late ‘50s and early ‘60s.
Even apart from the IITs, India still has plenty of stellar institutions which you can leave with a sound education and sounder prospects. International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Hyderabad, is one such institute that ranks high on just about every academic marker you can think of. Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani, instituted by the Birla Education Trust in the 1950s, has also been a strong draw for the best and the brightest minds in India. Dhole Patil College of Engineering, and Symbiosis Institute of Technology, are only two of the Best Engineering Colleges in Pune[/b], a city that has some of the best places to study the entire country. Anna University, Guindy, a university in Tamil Nadu dedicated to technological and IT studies, is also a hot favourite. Vellore Institute of Technology, Manipal Institute of Technology, and Sardar Patel College of Engineering, Mumbai are a few other institutes of note.
A career in Computer Engineering need not end up with you being shepherded to data entry farms simply because your infant college stiffed you out of a decent education. Do your research, and broaden your horizons beyond the lakhs[/i] of rupees[/i] poured into marketing by colleges that run only for profit. Do your research even beyond waiting for the result of your entrance exam, and going through the subsequent counselling process. Find out about entrance examinations conducted by different states and their universities. There are many Engineering Colleges in India that bridge that gap between student and professional life, making your transition into a Career in Computer Engineering that much easier. You just have to find them.