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Top Engineering Colleges in India With Median Salary- Every year, MoE devises the NIRF ranks for top Indian colleges based on several factors including the placement statistics. Based on the 2024 ranking, IIT Madras, IIT Delhi, IIT Bombay, IIT Kanpur and IIT Kharagpur are top 5 engineering colleges in India. They also provide some of the best placements of all. However, due to the global economic slowdown, most of the top colleges in India reported lower-than-usual median salaries in 2024. Whereas in 2023, the median salary at top engineering colleges in India ranged between Rs 30.30 Lakhs per annum to Rs 4 Lakhs per annum.
A score of 70 in JEE Mains is usually low, giving a percentile of 75–88 and a rank between 1,20,000 and 1,70,000.
Check this page to learn the names of the best institutions based on their salary details as well as their NIRF ranking. The median salary data in this article is provided for the top 20 engineering colleges in India as per the placement statistics in 2023. The information will be updated for the current year as soon as it is released. Meanwhile, aspirants can refer to the content here to choose the engineering college based on previous years' data.
IIIT Hyderabad tops the list of colleges with the highest median salary. Along with BITS Pilani, these two are the best private colleges for engineering based on the median salary offered. Out of top 20 engineering colleges based on median salary, 18 are public institutions (comprising 14 IITs, 2 IIITs, one NIT and one state govt. college) and 2 are private institutes. Check the table given below to know the names of top colleges in India for engineering as per the recorded median salary package during the 2022-23 placement drive and their placement percentage.
NIRF 2024 Rank | College Name | Median Salary 2022-23 | Placement % |
47 | 30,30,000 | 100% | |
87 | 30,00,000 | 99% | |
5 | 24,00,000 | 85% | |
4 | 23,00,000 | 92% | |
31 | 22,00,000 | 100% | |
7 | 21,60,000 | 99% | |
16 | 21,20,000 | 88% | |
8 | 21,00,000 | 97% | |
2 | 20,00,000 | 86% | |
10 | 20,00,000 | 100% | |
22 | 20,00,000 | 92% | |
6 | 19,69,000 | 100% | |
3 | 19,63,000 | 100% | |
20 | 19,00,000 | 98% | |
85 | 18,50,000 | 99% | |
34 | 17,00,000 | 99% | |
57 | 17,00,000 | 92% | |
60 | 17,00,000 | 89% | |
1 | 16,63,440 | 91% | |
18 | 16,00,000 | 76% |
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Given below is the list of the top 20 private colleges in India with a focus on Median Salary. Based on the 2022-23 placement data, IIT Hyderabad ranks as the best college with a consistent placement performance in terms of salary packages offered. BITS Pilani and Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology are other best private engineering colleges in India that offer the highest median salary.
NIRF 2024 Rank | College Name | Median Salary 2022-23 | Placement % |
47 | International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad | 30,30,000 | 100% |
20 | Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani | 19,00,000 | 98% |
29 | 11,89,000 | 95% | |
48 | 10,57,982 | 76% | |
99 | 10,00,000 | 83% | |
78 | 9,05,000 | 99% | |
11 | 9,00,000 | 82% | |
56 | 8,88,250 | 82% | |
35 | 8,05,500 | 95% | |
75 | 8,00,000 | 88% | |
100 | 8,00,000 | 100% | |
32 | 8,00,000 | 100% | |
46 | 8,00,000 | 93% | |
38 | 7,60,000 | 96% | |
37 | 7,50,000 | 75% | |
23 | 7,24,000 | 100% | |
67 | 7,00,000 | 79% | |
91 | 6,82,000 | 85% | |
36 | 6,75,000 | 99% | |
42 | 6,50,000 | 99% |
MS score plays an important role in deriving the NIRF rank. Median Salary (MS) is one of the parameters of Graduation Outcomes under the NIRF Ranking parameters. MS, as part of GO, has 20% weightage in overall score. Maximum marks possible under MS parameter is 25. These marks are provided mainly based on the median salary recorded by the institute in the past three years. In NIRF 2024 Ranking, IIIT Hyderabad has obtained the highest score of 25 out of 25 marks under this parameter, followed by IIIT Allahabad and IIT Kanpur with scores of 23.63 and 21.84 marks respectively.
Parent Category | Graduation Outcomes (GO) |
Other subcategories of GO |
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Wightage Within GO | 25 marks |
Overall percentage weightage of MS | 20% |
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
IIIT Hyderabad has shown a consistent performance with regard to the median salary offered. Rs 30.30 Lakhs is the IIIT Hyderabad median salary package.
The median salary package that was offered at IIT Madras is Rs. 16.63 LPA in 2023.
Rs 4.00 LPA is the lowest amount of the median salary offered.
Ministry of Education is expected to release the NIRF ranking 2025 in the month of August.
The median salary parameter contributes 20% to the overall NIRF 2024 score.
The median salary is that value which divides the placement demographics into two halves. Half of the graduates have earned more than the median salary and the rest have been offered less than that. It is a good indicator that acts as a benchmark for placement performance.
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