Placements
| Rank | Name of Institute | Average Salary (In Rs/Lakh) | % of |
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| Top 10 Govt Engg Institutes | |||
| 1 | IIT Kharagpur | 7.44 | 98 |
| 2 | IIT Roorkee | 6.95 | 80 |
| 3 | IIT Guwahati | 6.71 | 98 |
| 4 | IT, BHU | 6.51 | 95 |
| 5 | IIT Kanpur | 6.39 | 93 |
| 6 | IIT Mumbai | 6 | 77 |
| 7 | MVIT, Bangalore | 6 | 100 |
| 8 | ISM Univ., Dhanbad | 5.93 | 99 |
| 9 | NSIT, New Delhi | 5.51 | 95 |
| 10. | Delhi College of Engineering | 5.5 | 77 |
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| Top 10 Pvt Engg Institutes | |||
| 1. | IIIT Hyderabad | 7.2 | 100 |
| 2 | PSG College, Coimbatore | 5 | 100 |
| 3 | BMS Inst., Bangalore | 4.85 | 94 |
| 4 | BITS, Pilani | 4.5 | 100 |
| 5 | BIT, Mesra | 4.3 | 100 |
| 6 | GL Bajaj Inst., Noida | 4.23 | 90 |
| 7 | KIIT, Bhubaneshwar | 4.2 | 98 |
| 8 | Thapar Univ., Patiala | 4.13 | 83 |
| 9 | PES Inst. of Tech, Bangalore | 4 | 80 |
| 10 | DJS College, Mumbai | 3.75 | 70 |
| 11 | ASE, Coimbatore | 3.6 | 95 |
Post Script : The above list has been revised as per the Clarification in Outlook Print Issue dated 14 July, 2008, Page No 2:
Clarification
Our research agency Synovate informs us that it has wrongly classified and ranked some colleges in Outlooks listing of top professional colleges. IIIT Hyderabad is a private engineering college.
