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It is said that Knowledge is not what you know, it is what you implement. This is very true when you consider a career in engineering. With entrance exams around the corner thousand thoughts must be racing through the minds of aspiring engineers about which college to take up, which branch to choose, job prospects etc.

This piece of information goes to all those confused minds and to the large community of aspiring engineers. I have made best use of the search engine to collate information on all aspects of engineering and I believe it would serve your purpose.

Courses in Engineering have become increasingly significant in today’s era with the advancement in technology. We live in a country where higher education is more of a duty rather than an alternative. The Indian context is highly conducive for the growth of engineering as a successful career. If I am not mistaken it is one of the most sought out career alternative that you can think of.

With the kind of assortment we see in the engineering colleges, it s quite evident that engineering is a course hugely accessible to anyone interested in pursuing a degree in engineering. You shouldn’t be surprised if you find engineering colleges in nooks and crannies of our country, such is a scope of the engineering studies. If you were to wonder why engineering courses are so much in demand you will for sure get numerous reasons. The class of technical education that a student gets in our country is simply the best.

There are various factors that drive students to various courses in engineering; it may be the scope, its future, kind of exposure they would get etc. With a little amount of dedication and diligence it would not be a difficult thing to get into an engineering course. It is the era of engineering boom in India. There are number of universities offering various disciplines of engineering.

Disciplines of Engineering

Let us now see what are the disciplines that are available in our country in the field of engineering??

Mechanical Engineering
Civil Engineering
Chemical Engineering
Computer science Engineering
Aeronautical Engineering or Aerospace Engineering
Electrical Engineering
Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering
Industrial Engineering
Materials and Metallurgical Engineering
Mining Engineering
Petroleum Engineering
Automobile Engineering
Instrumentation Engineering
Marine Engineering
Biotech Engineering

PS: There are various others in the list; they are either narrower aspects of the bigger entity. However the above mentioned fields are the main branches.

Eligibility for Engineering in India

The minimum qualification to get into an engineering degree is 10+2 from a recognized institute with 45% to 50% marks in Physics, Chemistry and Math. For Bio tech engineering, 45% to 50% marks in Physics, Chemistry and Biology.

Along with this given below is the list of Entrance Exams to get into engineering.

Format of the Entrance Exam for Engineering

Most of the tests have two papers; first paper is divided into 3 sections covering questions on physics, chemistry and Mathematics. The paper contains objective questions with multiple choices. Second paper is mainly on mathematics. Aptitude tests mainly analyses the candidates analytical, reasoning skills.For preparation for top engineering exam read

Top 100 Engineering colleges in India - 2011

Rank	College Name	Govt./Private	Placement%
1	Indian Institute of Technology IIT Kanpur, Kanpur	Government	95
2	Indian Institute of Technology IIT Kharagpur, Kharagpur	Government	90
3	Indian Institute of Technology IIT Bombay, Mumbai	Government	95
4	Indian Institute of Technology IIT Madras, Chennai	Government	90
5	Indian Institute of Technology IIT Delhi, Delhi	Government	90
6	BITS Pilani, Pilani	Private	85
7	IIT Roorkee, Roorkee	Government	80
8	IT-BHU, Varanasi	Government	80
9	IIT-Guwahati, Guwahati	Government	75
10	College of Engg , Anna University, Guindy	Government	70
11	Jadavpur University , Faculty of Engg & Tech, Calcutta	Government	75
12	Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad	Government	75
13	NIT- National Institute of Technology, Warangal	Government	70
14	BIT, Mesra, Ranchi	Private	70
15	NIT- National Institute of Technology, Trichy	Government	70
16	Delhi College of Engineering. New Delhi	Government	70
17	Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh	Government	80
18	NIT- National Institute of Technology, Suratkal	Government	65
19	Motilal Nehru National Inst. of Technology, Allahabad	Government	70
20	Thapar Inst of Engineering & Technology, Patiala	Private	60
21	Bengal Eng and Science University , Shibpur, Howrah	Government	60
22	MANIT, Bhopal	Government	60
23	PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore	Government	65
24	IIIT, Hyderabad	Government	70
25	Harcourt Butler Technological Institute, Kanpur	Government	60
26	Malviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur	Government	65
27	VNIT, Nagpur	Government	65
28	NIT- National Institute of Technology, Kozhikode	Government	60
29	Dhirubhai Ambani IICT, Gandhinagar	Private	55
30	Osmania Univ. College of Engineering, Hyderabad	Government	60
31	College of Engineering , Andhra University, Vishakhapatnam	Government	70
32	Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology, New Delhi	Government	60
33	NIT- National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra	Government	60
34	NIT- National Institute of Technology, Rourkela	Government	65
35	SVNIT, Surat	Government	70
36	Govt. College of Engineering, Pune	Government	65
37	Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal	Private	65
38	JNTU, Hyderabad	Government	65
39	R.V. College of Engineering, Bangalore	Private	65
40	NIT- National Institute of Technology, Jamshedpur	Government	70
41	University Visvesvaraya College of Engg., Bangalore	Government	65
42	VJTI, Mumbai	Government	65
43	Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore	Private	50
44	Coimbatore Institute of Technology, Coimbatore	Government	55
45	SSN College of Engineering, Chennai	Private	55
46	IIIT, Allahabad	Government	60
47	College of Engineering, Trivandrum	Government	65
48	NIT Durgapur, Durgapur	Government	60
49	SIT, Calcutta	Government	60
50	Mumbai University Inst of Chemical Tech. Mumbai	Government	65
51	Sardar Patel College of Engineering, Mumbai	Private	65
52	P.E.S. Institute of Technology, Bangalore	Private	55
53	Maharashtra Institute of Technology, Pune	Private	60
54	Amrita Institute of Technology & Science, Coimbatore	Private	60
55	National Institute of Engineering, Mysore	Private	60
56	B.M.S. College of Engineering, Bangalore	Private	60
57	Laxminarayan Institute Of Tech., Nagpur	Government	60
58	Nirma Institute of Technology, Ahmedabad	Private	60
59	IIIT, Pune	Government	65
60	Amity School of Engineering, Noida	Private	65
61	JNTU, Kakinada	Government	60
62	S.J. College of Engineering, Mysore	Private	60
63	Chaitanya Bharathi Inst. of Technology, Hyderabad	Private	65
64	IIIT, Bangalore	Government	55
65	SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai	Private	65
66	SASTRA, Thanjavur	Private	50
67	Bangalore Institute of Technology, Bangalore	Private	60
68	The Technological Inst. of Textile & Sciences, Bhiwani	Government	55
69	IIIT, Gwalior	Government	55
70	JNTU, Anantpur	Government	60
71	M.S. Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bangalore	Private	60
72	Gitam, Vishakhapatnam	Private	60
73	NIT- National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur	Government	60
74	NIT- National Institute of Technology. Jalandhar	Government	60
75	SV University Engineering College, Tirupati	Government	55
76	NIT- National Institute of Technology, Raipur	Government	60
77	Vasavi College of Engineering, Hyderabad	Private	60
78	The ICFAI Inst of Science and Technology, Hyderabad	Private	49
79	NIT- National Institute of Technology. Patna	Government	50
80	Cummins Colleges of Engg of Women, Pune	Government	50
81	VIT, Pune	Private	55
82	Shri Ramdeo Baba K.N. Engineering College, Nagpur	Private	49
83	Muffakham Jah Engineering College, Hyderabad	Private	60
84	Karunya Institute of Technology, Coimbatore	Private	60
85	D.J. Sanghvim, Mumbai	Private	55
86	Sathyabhama Engineering College, Chennai	Private	60
87	Kongu Engineering College, Erode	Private	55
88	Mepco Schlek Engineering College, Sivakasi	Private	55
89	Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College, Ludhiana	Government	60
90	Hindustan Inst of Engineering Technology, Chennai	Private	50
91	SDM College of Engineering, Dharwad	Private	60
92	R.V.R. & J.C. College Of Engg, Guntur	Private	55
93	Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, New Delhi	Government	55
94	K.L. College of Engineering, Veddeswaram	Private	55
95	Dharmsinh Desai Institute of Technology, Nadiad	Private	50
96	S.G.S. Institute of Technology & Science, Indore	Government	50
97	Jabalpur Engineering College, Jabalpur	Government	60
98	Sree Chitra Thirunal College of Engineering, Trivandrum	Private	49
99	G.H. Patel College of Engg & Technology, Vallabh Vidyanagar	Government	48
100	Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology, Bhubaneshwar	Private	49

Tips to remember before choose engineering colleges

First thing to do when you choose an engineering college is to see its infrastructure, it doesn’t mean beautiful campus, see the classrooms, laboratories and libraries.
It is not enough if you only have nice classrooms without good teaching faculty. See the state of faculty, their experience and exposure in the industry.
Check the status of placements in the college. Their prior placement records. This is important since at the end of four years if you end up without a job it wouldn’t not do any good.
Check the hostels, canteens and internet cafes.

Tips to choose the discipline apt for you

The streams related to electrical and electronics is considered to be the toughest and includes lot of subjects with numbers. If you are a person good with numbers then this is a filed for you.
Disciplines like Civil and mechanical involve of lot of drawings. If you have to choose these streams, you should have deep interest in drawing otherwise it would be a matter of waste.
Coming to subjects related to computers, if you are good with computer languages and if you are interested in theory this is a subject you should try to opt for and would suit you the best.

Details on engineering courses, prospects, and scope:

Mechanical Engineering: It is one of the oldest engineering courses. This branch of engineering mainly deals with the design, construction, and operation of power plants, engines, and machines. It deals mostly with things that move. It has application right from manufacturing plants, vehicles, ships, robots, heating and cooling systems, aircrafts, even in medical devices.

Mechanical Engineering has good prospects in industry as well as in higher studies. Mechanical Engineering jobs don’t mean to work in a workshop like a labor. There are plenty of office work and because of vast application of computers in mechanical engineering. All designing and manufacturing process is automated and computerized. Therefore the job profile for mechanical engineering is almost similar to a computer engineer.

Every top university offering engineering courses have mechanical engineering and there is lot of research going on in very specialized fields of Mechanical Engineering. You can see a good amount of requirement for PhD and research students abroad.

Average Salary: 3 to 3.5 lakh

Civil Engineering: A bachelor degree in civil engineering will give good opportunities in industry as our country is moving fast forward for infrastructure development and one the same time leave a good space for higher studies at home and abroad like MS in civil engineering. Almost all top universities offer MS in civil engineering and there are good opportunities PhD and research too. It basically deals with basic engineering, mathematics and engineering design.

Average Salary: 2.5 to 3.5 lakh

Chemical Engineering: Though it is not considered as a very hot branch of engineering have lot of potential for growth because of its applicability. It value and importance have risen in recent days because of the environmental issues. Jobs in petroleum companies and pharmaceuticals make it a prosperous choice of engineering. The subjects in this branch are mainly fluid mechanics, chemical thermodynamics, chemical kinetics etc.

Average salary: 2.8 to 3.5 lakh

Computer Engineering: This engineering stream teaches about the design, development, manufacture and maintenance of computer components. This is really an excellent field to have opportunities both in software companies and higher studies. As computing is extensively applied to almost every walk of life it created massive jobs for Computer Engineering students. On the same time more demand and application kept it research funding alive attracting many students to opt for higher studies.

Average salary: 4 to 5 lakh

Electrical Engineering: This is really an excellent field to have opportunities both in software companies and higher studies. As computing is extensively applied to almost every walk of life it created massive jobs for Computer Engineering students. On the same time more demand and application kept it research funding alive attracting many students to opt for higher studies. It mainly deals with subjects like electric systems, signals, micro electronics etc.

Average Salary: 3 to 3.5 lakh

Aeronautical Engineering: This is an advanced form of mechanical engineering that involves learning and construction of airplanes spacecrafts etc. this course needs a basic understanding of physics and mathematics. On a practical front if you are aiming at working in NASA you need to be exceptionally talented, lucky, patient and persistent. Big job opportunities are rare in the field of engineering. Usually students either move to software companies to got master of engineering in Aerospace Engineering.

Average Salary: 2 to 3 lakh

Electronics and communication engineering: This branch mainly deals with basic electronics subjects like digital electronics, logical design, power electronics etc. This engineering course gives enormous job opportunities in electronics and software companies. All electronic devices need software interface to run and come with one other or other device controlling programs architected and developed by electronics and communication engineering. It also gives great opportunities for research and development, as everyday consumer need new devices to support them in daily life.

Average salary: 3.5 to 4.5 lakh

Engineering Entrance Exam Calendar 2011

Exam Date	Last Date Of Application	Examination
Jan. 30, 2011	Oct. 27, 2010	GATE - 2011(Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering)
Mar. 1, 2011	-	National Aptitude Test in Architecture (NATA) 2011
Apr. 7, 2011	Dec. 27, 2010	Gujarat Common Entrance Exam (GUJCET - 2011) - Engineering
Apr. 10, 2011	Dec. 20, 2010	IITs Joint Entrance Examination (IIT JEE) 2011
Apr. 16, 2011	Feb. 28, 2011	VIT University Engineering Entrance Examinations (VITEEE) 2011
Apr. 16, 2011	Dec. 31, 2010	IIST Admission Test (ISAT- 2011) : Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST), Thiruvananthapuram
Apr. 17, 2011	Jan. 12, 2011	West Bengal Joint Entrance Examination (WBJEM) 2011
Apr. 17, 2011	Mar. 25, 2011	Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham University, Entrance Examination- B.Tech 2011
Apr. 18, 2011 - Apr. 19, 2011	Feb. 14, 2011	Kerala Engineering Architecture Medical (KEAM - 2011)
Apr. 24, 2011	Jan. 20, 2011	All India Engineering Entrance Examination (AIEEE) 2011
Apr. 27, 2011 - Apr. 28, 2011	-	Karnataka Common Entrance Test 2011
May. 1, 2011	May. 15, 2011	Army Institute of Technology (AIT), Pune : Admission 2011 (Based on AIEEE)
Apr. 30, 2011 - May. 1, 2011	Mar. 4, 2011	NERIST (North Eastern Regional Institute of Science And Technology) Entrance Examination (NEE I, II, III) 2011
Apr. 24, 2011 - May. 1, 2011	Jan. 20, 2011	Punjab Technical University Combined Entrance Test 2011 : on the basis of AIEEE
May. 8, 2011	Mar. 16, 2011	Andhra Pradesh- Engineering, Agricultural and Medical Common Entrance Test (EAMCET - 2011)
May. 11, 2011 - May. 12, 2011	-	Goa Common Entrance Test (GCET) 2011
May. 11, 2011 - Jun. 10, 2011	Jan. 31, 2011	BITS Admission Test- 2011 (BITSAT 2011)

Popular Engineering Entrance Exam in India

* IIT JEE (Indian Institute of Technology - Joint Entrance Exam)
* ENAT (Epsi National Admission Test)
* MHTCET (Maharashtra Common Entrance Test)

* KUEEE(Karunya University Engineering Entrance Exam)
* Punjab CET (Punjab Common Entrance Test)
* Delhi CEE (Delhi Combined Entrance Examination)
* MP PET (Madhya Pradesh Pre Engineering Test)
* WBJEE (West Bengal Joint Entrance exam)
* AIEEE (All India Engineering Entrance Exam)
* VITEEE (Vellore Institute of Technology Engineering Entrance Exam)

* COMEDK (Consortium of Medical, Engineering and Dental of Karnataka)
* UPSEE (Uttar Pradesh State Entrance Exam)
* Orissa JEE (Orissa Joint Entrance Exam)
* KEAM (Kerala Engineering, Agriculture and Medical Entrance Exam)
* GGSIPU (Guru Gobind Singh IndraPrastha University Common Entrance Test)

* BITSAT (Birla Institute of Technology and Science Admission Test)
* CETK (Karnataka Common Entrance Test)
* JNU EEE(Jawaharlal Nehru University Engineering Entrance Exam)
* EAMCET ( Engineering, Agriculure and medicine Common Entrance Test)
* GATE (Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering)
* RPET (Rajasthan Pre Entrance Test)
* NEE (NERIST Entrance Exam)
* NATA (National Aptitude Test in Architecture)
* SLIET (Sant Longowal Institute of Engineering and Technology) Entrance Test

* MERI (Marine Engineering & Research Institute) Entrance Exam
* GUJCET (Gujarat Common Entrance Test)
* SLIET (Sant Longowal Institute of Engineering and Technology Entrance Test)
* SRM EEE (SRM Engineering Entrance Exam)
* NSIT (Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology) Entrance Exam
* KIITEE (Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology Entrance exam)
* IIIT PGEE (International Institute of Information Technology Post Graduate Entrance Examinations)
* SRM EEE (SRM Engineering Entrance Exam)
* JMI EEE (Jamia Milia Islamia Engineering Entrance Exam)

* JNTU PACET(Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Planning and Architecture Common Entrance Test)
* TMI BITS (Tolani Maritime Institute - Birla Institute of Technology and Science) entrance Exam
* VMU EEE (Vinayaka Mission University Engineering Entrance Exam)

* VITEEE (Vellore Institute of Technology Engineering Entrance Exam)
* SPA (School of Planning and Architecture) Entrance Exam
* DAIICT (Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology) Entrance Exam
* BEEE (Bharath University Engineering Entrance Exam)
* BVPEEE (Bharath VidyaPeeth Engineering Entrance Exam)
* BEE (Bureau energy efficiency) Entrance Exam
* ATIT (Admission Test for ICFAI university Technology)
* Annamalai University Engineering Entrance Exam

* AMIETE (Associate Membership of Institute of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers) Entrance Test
* AICE (All India Competitive Examination)
* AEEE (Avinashilingam University Engineering entrance exam)
* IIMS JEE (Indian Institute of Maritime Studies joint entrance examination)
* SMIT UGET (Sikkim Manipal University Undergraduate Entrance Test)
* CCSU B.Tech Entrance Test (Chaudhuri Charan Singh University B.Tech Entrance Test )
* IIIT K (Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management - Kerala)
* AMUEEE (Aligarh Muslim University Engineering Entrance Exam)

engineering

Disciplines of Engineering

Eligibility for Engineering in India

Format of the Entrance Exam for Engineering

Top 100 Engineering colleges in India - 2011

Rank

College Name

Govt./Private

Placement%

Tips to remember before choose engineering colleges

Tips to choose the discipline apt for you

Details on engineering courses, prospects, and scope:

Average Salary: 3 to 3.5 lakh

Average Salary: 2.5 to 3.5 lakh

Average salary: 2.8 to 3.5 lakh

Average salary: 4 to 5 lakh

Average Salary: 3 to 3.5 lakh

Average Salary: 2 to 3 lakh

Average salary: 3.5 to 4.5 lakh

Engineering Entrance Exam Calendar 2011

Exam Date

Last Date Of Application

Examination

Popular Engineering Entrance Exam in India