IIT Kharagpur tops EDU-RAND ranking 2014

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur has emerged as top engineering college in the EDU-RAND 2014 rankings. IIT Kharagpur is followed by IIT Delhi, IIT Kanpur, IIT Chennai and then IIT Mumbai.

The EDU-RAND rakings help in greading an institute. This helps in guiding students seeking admission to an engineering college or university.

EDU is a community platform for academics, administrators and business leaders in Indian higher education. RAND Corporation is a global research house known for its extensive work in education.

Around 850 colleges were studied and included in the EDU-RAND 2014 rankings. India current has more than 3,000 engineering colleges.

IIT Kharagpur plans to offer MBBS courses

IIT Kharagpur is planning to offer Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) courses. IIT Kharagpur will be the first IIT to venture into medical education. The Institute has allocated 3 acres land for the 400-bedded super-speciality hospital named as Dr B C Roy Institute of Medical Science & Research. This institute will be ready by the end of 2017. The hospital will also work on biomedical, clinical and translational research. Drug design and delivery will be other key research areas to which the hospital will contribute.

IIT Guwahati rated amoung the best young universities in the world

The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) at Guwahati has been rated amoung top 100 young universities in the world. Young universities are those which were established in within last 50 years. This report has been published by Britain-based Times Higher Education and Thomson Reuters. According to report, IIT Guwwahati is ranked 87. Recently there has been news where India's premeir institution - IITs were struggling to get better ranked. IIT Guwahait is the only Indian institution in the list.

IIT Kharagpur organizing Global Entrepreneurship summit from 13th to 15th January 2012

Entrepreneurship Cell of IIT Kharagpur presents the Global Entrepreneurship Summit from 13th to 15th January 2012. The event will host guest lectures by Sunita Ramnathakar, Nikhil Soman and Samresh Shah. Another attraction of the event is Startup Camps which will help start ups to recruit students for jobs as well as internship. For more information or any query contact - Shray Jaiswal : +91 7797326550, [email protected] Rakesh Krishna : +91 7872228452, [email protected] Website - http://www.ges.ecell-iitkgp.org/

Kshitij 2012, The techno – management fest at IIT Kharagpur from 27th - 30th January 2012

IIT Kharagpur is organising Kshitij 2012 in association with GE, HCL and Tata Steel. The event is certified by ACM, IEEE, ASME, ImechE and ASHRAE. The event presents - 1)MECHATRON – Design a shooting Mechanism 2)GEOTECH – Industrial design problem 3)AQUA RANGER – Airboat designing Competition & 4)ROBOTIX Reloaded

Indian Universities lost ranking on the Global Map

No Indian universities were listed in the Top 200 list released by QS ranking for the year of 2011 - 2012. The rankings by QS ( Quacquarelli Symonds) , a leading networking organization in higher education, are based on employer reputation, academic reputation and research quality.

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