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Top Engineering Colleges in India With Median Salary

K Guna SahitiUpdated on 12 Aug 2025, 03:43 PM IST

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.

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Top Engineering Colleges in India With Median Salary
Top Engineering Colleges in India With Median Salary

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.

Top 20 Engineering Colleges in India With Highest Median Salary

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.

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Median Salary Offered at Top Engineering Colleges

NIRF 2024 Rank

College Name

Median Salary 2022-23

Placement %

47

IIIT Hyderabad

30,30,000

100%

87

IIIT Allahabad

30,00,000

99%

5

IIT Kharagpur

24,00,000

85%

4

IIT Kanpur

23,00,000

92%

31

IIT Mandi

22,00,000

100%

7

IIT Guwahati (IITG)

21,60,000

99%

16

IIT Indore

21,20,000

88%

8

IIT Hyderabad

21,00,000

97%

2

IIT Delhi

20,00,000

86%

10

IIT BHU

20,00,000

100%

22

IIT Ropar (IIT-RPR)

20,00,000

92%

6

IIT Roorkee

19,69,000

100%

3

IIT Bombay

19,63,000

100%

20

BITS Pilani

19,00,000

98%

85

IIIT Delhi

18,50,000

99%

34

IIT Patna

17,00,000

99%

57

NSUT Delhi

17,00,000

92%

60

MNNIT Allahabad

17,00,000

89%

1

IIT Madras

16,63,440

91%

18

IIT Gandhinagar

16,00,000

76%

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Top 20 Private Engineering Colleges in India With Highest Median Salary

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.

Median Salary Offered at Top Private Engineering Colleges

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

Thapar University

11,89,000

95%

48

BIT Mesra

10,57,982

76%

99

RVCE Bangalore

10,00,000

83%

78

Banasthali Vidyapith

9,05,000

99%

11

VIT Vellore

9,00,000

82%

56

MIT Manipal

8,88,250

82%

35

KL University Guntur

8,05,500

95%

75

MSRIT Bangalore

8,00,000

88%

100

SIT Tumkur

8,00,000

100%

32

Chandigarh University

8,00,000

100%

46

SSN College of Engineering

8,00,000

93%

38

SASTRA University Thanjavur

7,60,000

96%

37

KIIT University

7,50,000

75%

23

Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham

7,24,000

100%

67

PSG Tech Coimbatore

7,00,000

79%

91

Vignan's Foundation for Science Technology and Research

6,82,000

85%

36

Kalasalingam Academy of Research and Education

6,75,000

99%

42

UPES Dehradun

6,50,000

99%

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What is the MS Score in the NIRF Ranking?

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.

Weightage of Median Salary (MS) Parameter

Parent Category

Graduation Outcomes (GO)

Other subcategories of GO

  • Placement & Higher Studies

  • University Examinations

  • Ph.D Students

Wightage Within GO

25 marks

Overall percentage weightage of MS

20%

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

Q: Which engineering college is the best based on the Median salary offered?
A:

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.

Q: What is the median salary package offered at IIT Madras?
A:

The median salary package that was offered at IIT Madras is Rs. 16.63 LPA in 2023.

Q: What is the lowest median salary offered in the top 100 engineering colleges in India as per the NIRF ranking 2024?
A:

Rs 4.00 LPA is the lowest amount of the median salary offered.

Q: When will the NIRF ranking 2025 be released?
A:

Ministry of Education is expected to release the NIRF ranking 2025 in the month of August. 

Q: What is the weightage of the MS score within the NIRF ranking 2024?
A:

The median salary parameter contributes 20% to the overall NIRF 2024 score. 

Q: What is the meaning of the median salary in Engineering colleges?
A:

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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