Getting into Engineering
By admin • Mar 11th, 2008 • Category: About Engineering
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The best option for a candidate with 60% marks in 10+2 and the aptitude for this line is to clear the IIT-JEE to get admission in any one of the prestigious Indian Institutes of Technology located at Mumbai, New Delhi, Kharagpur, Kanpur, Chennai, Roorkee and Guwahati as also Banaras Hindu University and Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad.
The next best option is admission in any one of the 18 National Institutes of Technology (NIT) located in different States (Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Orissa, Punjab, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal).
There is yet another opening for 10+2 students with Physics, Chemistry, Maths & English to try their luck in the All India Engineering Entrance Examination conducted by CBSE in April/May every year for admission to BE/B.Tech/ B.Arch./B. Planning programmes for admission to various participating universities and institutions.
Since the 10+2 conducted by CBSE is held in March, the candidates aspiring to clear AIEEE (All India Engineering/ Architecture Entrance Examination) have to send their forms provisionally in February itself, subject to their fulfilling the eligibility conditions at the time of appearing for counselling.
Candidates opting for BE/B.Tech have to appear in Physics, Chemistry & Mathematics, while those opting for B.Arch/B. Planning have to clear Aptitude Test & Mathematics.
Top Destinations for Engineering Programmes after 10+2
There are no two opinions regarding the top most engineering institutes. They are none other than the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs). There are seven IITs located in different parts of the country. These are, namely, IIT-Kharagpur (West Bengal); IIT-Kanpur (UP); IIT-Delhi; IIT-Roorkee (Uttarakhand); IIT-Bombay (Maharashtra); IIT-Guwahati (Assam) and IIT-Madras (Tamil Nadu).
You judge on whatever parameters quality of faculty or infrastructure or per student expenditure or teacher-student ratio they are at the top. The Indian Institutes of Technology ate institutions of national importance established through an Act of Parliament.
These Institutes play a leading role in technological manpower development and have research programmes comparable to the best in the world. The admissions to the Undergraduate Programmes for all Indian and Foreign nationals at these institutions are made through the Joint Entrance Examination (IIT-JEE).
Institute of Technology-Banaras Hindu University (IT-BHU), Varanasi is one of the oldest institutions devoted to education in various Engineering disciplines. The Indian School of Mines (ISM), Dhanbad, a deemed university, is the oldest institution of its kind in India.
The admissions to the undergraduate programmes at these institutions are also made through JEE.
