Top Engineering Colleges In Andhra Pradesh Placed 66.7% Students: Latest Data
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Top Engineering Colleges In Andhra Pradesh Placed 66.7% Students: Latest Data

Updated on 03 Sep 2022, 09:07 AM IST

Top six engineering colleges of Andhra Pradesh together achieved a placement rate of just 66.7 per cent for the BTech batch that was enrolled from 2017 to 2021, a Careers360 analysis has found.

Top Engineering Colleges In Andhra Pradesh Placed 66.7% Students: Latest Data
Large numbers of students engineering colleges in AP were not placed (Image: Shutterstock)

Ranked by the education ministry’s National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF 2022), participating institutions submitted data on student intake, actual enrollment, graduating students, and those placed. For the latest 2022 rankings NIRF considered data from the 2021 round of final placements for the four-year BTech batch.

The top engineering college in AP was ranked 44th on the NIRF 2022 rankings for engineering. These were the six AP colleges to be ranked among the top 200 in India by the NIRF:

NIRF 2022 Rank

Engineering College

44

Koneru Lakshmaiah Education Foundation University (KL College of Engineering), Vaddeswaram

56

Indian Institute of Technology, Tirupati

77

AU College of Engineering, Visakhapatnam

99

Vignan's Foundation for Science, Technology and Research, Guntur

102

Gandhi Institute of Technology and Management, Visakhapatnam

129

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Kakinada

141

Velagapudi Ramakrishna Siddhartha Engineering College, Vijayawada

165

Sree Vidyanikethan Engineering College, Tirupati

188

GMR Institute of Technology, Rajam

198

Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati

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Best Engineering Colleges In AP

These 10 colleges together had around 89.6 per cent of their enrolled students graduating in 2021. However, the placement rate – calculated with the number of students graduating in 2020-21 as base – was just 66.7 per cent. In comparison, Tamil Nadu’s top engineering colleges placed 75 per cent; Karnataka’s was 71.4 per cent; Uttar Pradesh stood at 70.5 per cent; Maharashtra’s was 67 per cent and Telangana placed 64.4 per cent of their graduating students. Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Telangana and Uttar Pradesh each had more than 10 institutes featured in NIRF 2022.

BTech placements at top engineering colleges in Andhra PradeshData From Top Engineering Colleges in Andhra Pradesh

The table below gives the absolute numbers for intake, enrollment, graduating students and campus placements.

Top Engineering Colleges In Andhra Pradesh

College Name

Intake

Enrolled

Graduated

Placed

Koneru Lakshmaiah Education Foundation University (KL College of Engineering), Vaddeswaram

3180

3180

2644

1717

Indian Institute of Technology, Tirupati

120

111

105

65

AU College of Engineering, Visakhapatnam

360

360

360

330

Vignan's Foundation for Science, Technology and Research, Guntur

1620

1681

1405

606

Gandhi Institute of Technology and Management, Visakhapatnam

4320

4198

4035

3842

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Kakinada

610

768

651

398

Velagapudi Ramakrishna Siddhartha Engineering College, Vijayawada

1140

1341

1144

806

Sree Vidyanikethan Engineering College, Tirupati

1380

1455

1329

959

GMR Institute of Technology, Rajam

870

856

756

400

Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati

840

909

883

791

The number of enrolled students is the sum of students admitted in the first year and the students admitted subsequently through “lateral entry”.

AP EAMCET

Admission to most top engineering colleges in AP is through the Engineering Agricultural and Medical Common Entrance Test, or AP EAMCET. While KL College of Engineering also conducts its own Engineering entrance exam – KLUEE – as does Vignan's Foundation for Science, Technology and Research, they also accept AP EAMCET and JEE Main scores for admission to BTech programmes. Indian Institute of Technology, Tirupati admission takes place through JEE Advanced.

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