Almost 17 technical institutes from across the country have won awards in this year’s AICTE-CII Survey of industry-linked technical institutes which included ten awards in degree category and six in diploma.

In degree category, there were eight awards in engineering and one each in pharmaceutical and architecture categories. The engineering awards included one award for best National Institute of Technology (NIT) which was won by NIT Trichy. There was one award in the emerging category in engineering which went to Chennai-based Vel Tech Multi Tech Dr. Rangarajan Dr. Sakunthala Engineering College.

The award for best industry-linked management institute was won by Mumbai-based Prin LN Welingkar Institute of Management Development and Research while there was no winner in the emerging category of management. In engineering, the other winners were DKTE Society’s Textile and Engineering Institute, Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Sona College of Technology, RMK Engineering College and Sri Sai Ram Engineering College. The award in the pharma category was won by SVKM’s Dr Bhanuben Nanavati College of Pharmacy.

The best performing institutes were selected after a five-and-half month long online survey and a subsequent four-month jury process. More than 60 experts from industry and academia took part in the jury process which included visits to institutes for on-site assessment of industry linkages of institutes. The fourth edition of the survey saw the number of participating institutes increase from 814 in 2014 to 901. This number was 355 in 2013 and 156 in 2012. The discipline-wise submissions rose from 2,744 in 2014 to more than 3,000 this year. This count was 1,124 in 2013.

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