Top non-IIT engineering colleges & CSE departments: Placements & more

Let’s look at some of the non-IIT engineering colleges in NIRF 2024. We will look at the first 50 non-IIT engineering colleges.

Now, let’s know more about some of the non-IIT engineering colleges, particularly about their CSE department.

National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli

Located in Tamil Nadu, the National Institute of Technology (NIT) Tiruchirappalli was founded as a Regional Engineering College Tiruchirappalli in 1964 by the state government under the affiliation of the University of Madras.

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As the official website of the NIT Trichy, every year, 220 companies participate in the placement. In the academic session 2023-24, 96.9 per cent of undergraduate students in computer science participated in the placement; on the other hand, in the MTech CSE course, 93.3 per cent of students participated.

In the placement, some of the companies that participate are Intel, Morgan Stanley, HCL, Google, Facebook, Honeywell, Microsoft, HSBC, McAfee, Reliance, Pepsico, Tata, Samsung, among others.

Vellore Institute of Technology

Founded in 1984 as a self-financing institution, VIT stood in the rank band of 691 in QS World University Rankings 2026. The Institute has various CSE branches, like artificial intelligence and machine learning, CSE in AI and data engineering, CSE in bioinformatics and CSE and business system, CSE in cybersecurity, and CSE in data science.

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VIT has achieved the highest CTC of Rs 1 Crore in the last placement session with companies like Amazon, Oracle and Dell, hiring students from the campus placements.

Jadavpur University

West Bengal’s Jadavpur University has various engineering courses like CSE, CE, Chemical engineering, and mechanical engineering, among others. The department was set up in 1988 and is offering a four-year undergraduate programme B.E. in Computer Science and Engineering (BCSE), a two-year postgraduate programme ME in Computer Science and Engineering (MCSE), a two-year MCA programme, a three-year postgraduate evening programme MTech in Computer Technology (MTCT), and PhD programmes.

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In the last placement session, the University saw companies like Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Disney Hotstar, among others, with an average package of Rs 12 LPA and the highest package of Rs 58 LPA.

S.R.M. Institute of Science and Technology

The Institute has rebranded its course name to the Department of Computing Technologies. As per the official website, the college has received over 700 dream offers with eight internship opportunities in the last placement session.

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In recent years, the placement rate has consistently exceeded 90 per cent, with the highest package offered reaching an impressive Rs 65 LPA in 2025. An average package of around Rs 7.19 LPA in 2024. There are various recruiters such as Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Dell, and IBM alongside leading IT service firms like TCS, Infosys, Wipro, HCL, and Accenture.

Anna University

Anna University’s CSE programme has placed 171 students in the 2022-2023 placement session, the latest provided on the official website. In 2021-22, 166 students were placed in companies like Accenture India, Adobe, Cognizant, Hitachi Energy, Infosys, Morgan Stanley, among others.

The highest annual package offered was an impressive Rs 36.5 LPA by D.E. Shaw India, followed closely by Rs 29.5 LPA from Morgan Stanley and Rs 28.54 LPA from VISA Inc. Other top recruiters included SAP Labs (Rs 24.5 LPA), Wells Fargo (Rs 19.5 LPA), and Western Digital (Rs 19 LPA).