Engineer’s Day 2020: The National Engineer’s Day is celebrated on September 15 to mark the birth anniversary of eminent engineer Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya not only in India but also in Sri Lanka and Tanzania. Sir Visvesvaraya is widely known for solving irrigation-related problems in India. Some of his significant works include the irrigation system in the Deccan canals, inventing automatic gates meant to regulate the flow of water in reservoirs. Read | Here’s why Engineer’s Day 2020 celebrated on September 15 India also is home to Elattuvalapil Sreedharan - commonly known as 'Metro Man', Vinod Dham who is known as 'Father of the Pentium Chip', and many other geniuses in the field of engineering. And many more follow their footsteps till now. As per AISHE 2019 report, over 30 lakh students study engineering or related subjects in India. In recently concluded the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Main results, over 10 lakh students had participated this year. IN VIDEO | Engineers’ Day: Sir M Visvesvaraya the builder of dams, bridges and a nation On Engineer's Day, here is the list of the best engineering institutes in Indian and abroad for India's budding engineers List of best engineering colleges as per NIRF ranking 20200 Rank 1: IIT-Madras Rank 2: IIT-Delhi Rank 3: IIT-Bombay Rank 4: IIT-Kanpur Rank 5: IIT-Kharagpur Read | IIT entrance toughest, says JEE Main topper who has also cleared MIT Rank 6: IIT-Roorkee Rank 7: IIT-Guwahati Rank 8: IIT-Hyderabad Rank 9: NIT-Tiruchirappalli Rank 10: IIT-Indore Top engineering institutes other than IITs in NIRF 2020 Rank 9: NIT-Tiruchirappalli Rank 13: NIT-Karnataka Rank 14: Anna University Rank 15: Vellore Institute of Technology Rank 16: NIT-Rourkela Rank 17: Jadavpur University Read | IITs dominate HRD’s NIRF ranking again; here’s why they fail internationally Rank 18: Institute of Chemical Technology Rank 19: NIT-Warangal Rank 20: Amrita School of Engineering Rank 23: NIT-Calicut Rank 27: Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology Rank 28: Jamia Millia Islamia Rank 29: Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology Rank 30: Birla Institute of Technology & Science Rank 32: Amity University Noida Rank 33: Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology Rank 34: Siksha `O` Anusandhan Read | Improve research culture, investment for better ranking: Times Higher Education to Indian institutes Rank 35: Malaviya National Institute of Technology Rank 36: Delhi Technological University Rank 37: Shanmugha Arts Science Technology & Research Academy Rank 38: Birla Institute of Technology Rank 39: Aligarh Muslim University Rank 40: NIT-Kurukshetra QS Ranking 2021 Rank 172: IIT-Bombay Rank 185: IISc Rank 193: IIT-Delhi Rank 275: IIT-Madras Rank 314: IIT-Kharagpur Rank 350: IIT-Kanpur QS world university subject ranking Rank 1: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Rank 2: Stanford University Rank 3: University of Cambridge Rank 4: ETH Zurich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Rank 5: University of California, Berkeley (UCB) Rank 6: University of Oxford Rank 7: Imperial College London Rank 8: Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore Rank 9: Tsinghua University Rank 10: National University of Singapore QS Subject ranking 2020: Indian colleges Rank 44: IIT-Bombay Rank 47: IIT-Delhi Rank 86: IIT-Kharagpur Rank 88: IIT-Madras Rank 96: IIT-Kanpur Rank 103: Indian Institute of Science Rank 156: IIT-Roorkee Rank 233: IIT-Guwahati Rank 342: University of Delhi Rank 373: Anna University Band 401-450: Vellore Institute of Technology Band 451-500: Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani In Times Higher Education (THE) Ranking, fewer engineering colleges from India get featured as seven IITs in Mumbai, Delhi, Kanpur, Guwahati, Madras, Roorkee and Kharagpur declined from participating in the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings. Older IITs had expressed concerns over their performance in the World University Rankings released in September.
