Know your College Type
College Grades
TIER 1
IITs Bombay, Kanpur, KGP, Delhi, Madras, Guwahati, BHU, Hyderabad and Roorkee.
In addition to these IITs: BITS pilani pilani campus, NIT W,K,T, IIIT Hyd, and ISM Dhanbad (soon to be IIT).
TIER 1.5 (Potential to become tier 1 in a few years)
IIIT Allahabad, DTU , NSIT, IIIT Delhi.
NITs-Calicut, Nagpur, Rourkela, Kurukshetra, Allahabad, Bhopal, Jaipur, Durgapur, Jamshedpur.
BITS Goa and Hyderabad.
Tier 2
NEW IITs like Mandi,Gandhinagar,Patna, Bhubaneswar etc.
DAIICT, BIT Mesra, IIIT Bangalore , IIIT Gwalior, IIIT Kancheepuram, IIIT Jabalpur.
Rest of the NITs.
Top private colleges like Manipal main campus, SRM main campus and VIT main campus.
Top state government colleges like JNTU Hyd, BMS Bangalore ,RV Bangalore, HBTI Kanpur, Jadavpur university et al.
You might include Thapar university, Nirma and LNMIIT also.
Tier 3
Any IIITs (Indian not International) other than those mentioned above.
Lower level state government colleges.
Tier 4
Amity, LPU, ITM, other private colleges.
Tier 5
IIN (Idea Internet network)
Disclaimer:-
This list has been compiled from looking at past placement records, research papers published and by asking my friends (Where ever possible i.e. in most cases) about the quality of instruction and facilities, so it is believed that it is fairly accurate. Even so, there is every possibility that your views about the ranking of institutes may vastly differ from mine as this list is neither a definitive nor an exhaustive list.
Note:-
we are more than ready to make additions to the list but the rankings are fixed and will not be altered. If you are dissatisfied with your college’s current ranking then kindly request you to write your own answer instead of asking me to change mine.
We have made a separate list for Tier 1.5 because at present these colleges do not match up to the standards set by Tier 1; but considering the pace at which they are growing, will do so in a few years from now. Further division of the tiers is redundant and will complicate the stratification further and hence, it hasn’t been carried out.
Thank you.
