| Rank | Name of Institute | City | IC | II | I | PP | PS | GT |
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| IC: Intellectual capital (600), II: Industry Interface (300), I: Infrastructure (650), PP: Placement Performance (400), PS: Pedagogic system (200). GT: Grand Total (2,150) | ||||||||
| 1 | IIT | Kharagpur | 497 | 218 | 566.8 | 306.9 | 180 | 1,768 |
| 2 | IIT | Kanpur | 359 | 165 | 573.8 | 291.4 | 183 | 1,572 |
| 3 | IIT | Delhi | 376 | 234 | 467.2 | 305.8 | 179 | 1,563 |
| 4 | IIT | Mumbai | 373 | 102 | 531.5 | 280.3 | 182 | 1,469 |
| 5 | IIT | Chennai | 449 | 136 | 510.8 | 193.1 | 178 | 1,467 |
| 6 | IIT | Roorkee | 325 | 169 | 494 | 314.7 | 164 | 1466 |
| 7 | College of Engineering, Anna Univ. | Chennai | 288 | 205 | 423 | 259 | 154 | 1,329 |
| 8 | IT, BHU | Varanasi | 302 | 74 | 429.3 | 293 | 160 | 1,259 |
| 9 | IIT | Guwahati | 258 | 85 | 411.1 | 304.7 | 170 | 1,230 |
| 10 | ISM University | Dhanbad | 255 | 104 | 416.1 | 285.9 | 140 | 1,201 |
| 11 | NIT | Warangal | 270 | 77 | 405.8 | 265.5 | 160 | 1,179 |
| 12 | NIT | Trichy | 258 | 54 | 399.6 | 299.9 | 160 | 1,172 |
| 13 | Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology | Allahabad | 249 | 80 | 416.2 | 253 | 164 | 1,163 |
| 14 | NIT | Surathkal | 251 | 71 | 414 | 262.1 | 155 | 1,153 |
| 15 | Punjab Engineering College | Chandigarh | 228 | 95 | 412.3 | 244.1 | 160 | 1,139 |
| 16 | Delhi College of Engineering | New Delhi | 226 | 84 | 388.1 | 293.6 | 142 | 1,134 |
| 17 | Netaji Subhash Inst. of Technology | New Delhi | 207 | 69 | 387.4 | 272.6 | 150 | 1,086 |
| 18 | MNIT | Jaipur | 250 | 66 | 369.1 | 263.6 | 130 | 1,079 |
| 19 | College of Engineering | Pune | 224 | 79 | 381.2 | 247.8 | 140 | 1,072 |
| 20 | NIT | Rourkela | 220 | 70 | 391 | 240 | 150 | 1,071 |
| 21 | Autonomous College of Engineering, Andhra Univ. | Visakhapatnam | 250 | 79 | 372.9 | 248.9 | 120 | 1,070 |
| 22 | NIT | Calicut | 233 | 56 | 404.9 | 233.4 | 120 | 1,048 |
| 23 | Harcourt Butler Technological Institute | Kanpur | 205 | 77 | 344.2 | 253.6 | 160 | 1,040 |
| 24 | Coimbatore Institute of Technology | Coimbatore | 217 | 75 | 356.4 | 244.3 | 140 | 1,032 |
| 25 | IIIT | Allahabad | 183 | 90 | 366 | 253.8 | 120 | 1,012 |
| 26 | JNTI | Hyderabad | 191 | 61 | 347.3 | 260.5 | 120 | 980 |
| 27 | NIT | Hamirpur | 199 | 57 | 361.4 | 235.1 | 124 | 976 |
| 28 | BIT, Sindri | Dhanbad | 169 | 54 | 361.3 | 242.9 | 100 | 928 |
| 29 | Shri G.S. Institute of Technology & Science | Indore | 202 | 67 | 333.3 | 178.4 | 140 | 921 |
| 30 | University College of Engg (A) Osmania Univ. | Hyderabad | 191 | 59 | 340.8 | 215.5 | 110 | 916 |
| 31 | Guru Nanak Dev Engg College | Ludhiana | 166 | 60 | 371.2 | 184.6 | 133 | 915 |
| 32 | NIT | Silchar | 186 | 54 | 319.3 | 211.1 | 80 | 851 |
| 33 | CUSAT | Kochi | 166 | 36 | 309.9 | 200.5 | 100 | 813 |
| 34 | Jabalpur Engineering College | Jabalpur | 133 | 50 | 345.8 | 178.7 | 80 | 787 |
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| Some government engineering colleges which were ranked in the Top 35 in 2007 did not respond to the Outlook-Synovate survey this year. These include Faculty of Engineering & Technology, Jadavpur University, Calcutta; Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpur, Howrah; MANIT, Bhopal; VNIT, Nagpur; SVNIT, Surat; NIT Kurukshetra; NIT Kozhikode; Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai University; College of Engineering, Thiruvananthapuram; and NIT, Jamshedpur |
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 (revised rank: 2), Sir M. Visveswaraya Institute of Technology, Bangalore, is a private engineering college (revised rank: 13) and BIT, Sindri, is a government engineering college (revised rank: 28) (last edited July 3, 2008 -- SD)
