OUTLOOK - C fore Survey
Top 50: Private Engineering Colleges
| Rank | Name of the Institute | City |
| 1 | BITS, Pilani | Pilani |
| 2 | BITS, Mesra | Ranchi |
| 3 | PSG College of Technology | Coimbatore |
| 4 | Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology | Patiala |
| 5 | Dhirubhai Ambani, Institute of Information & Communication Technology | Gandhinagar |
| 6 | Manipal Institute of Technology | Manipal |
| 7 | Vellore Institute of Technology | Vellore |
| 8 | VJTI | Mumbai |
| 9 | SSN College of Engineering | Chennai |
| 10 | R.V. College of Engineering | Bangalore |
| 11 | PES Institute of Technology | Bangalore |
| 12 | Sardar Patel College of Engineering | Mumbai |
| 13 | Maharashtra Institute of Technology | Pune |
| 14 | S J College of Engineering | Mysore |
| 15 | SASTRA University | Thanjavur |
| 16 | Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology | Hyderabad |
| 17 | Nirma Institute of Technology | Ahmedabad |
| 18 | BMS College of Engineering | Bangalore |
| 19 | SRM Institute of Science and Technology | Chennai |
| 20 | Bangalore Institute of Technology | Bangalore |
| 21 | Sathyabhama Engineering College | Chennai |
| 22 | Gitam | Vishakhapatnam |
| 23 | National Institute of Engineering | Mysore |
| 24 | The ICFAI Institute of Science and Technology | Hyderabad |
| 25 | Mepco Schlenk Engineering College | Sivakasi (TN) |
| 26 | Amrita Institute of Technology & Science | Coimbatore |
| 27 | Shri Ramdeo Baba K N Engineering College | Nagpur |
| 28 | Karunya Institute of Technology | Coimbatore |
| 29 | Kongu Engineering College, Perundurai | Erode |
| 30 | Sreenidhi Institute of Science & Technology | Hyderabad |
| 31 | SDM College of Engineering | Dharwad |
| 32 | Mufkham Ja Engineering College | Hyderabad |
| 33 | M S Ramaiah Institute of Technology | Bangalore |
| 34 | Vasavi College of Engineering | Hyderabad |
| 35 | Jaypee University of Information Technology | Solan |
| 36 | R V R & J C College Of Engg | Guntur |
| 37 | Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology | Bhubaneswar |
| 38 | K L College of Engineering | Veddeswarm |
| 39 | Babu Banarasi Das | Lucknow |
| 40 | Institute of Technology & Management | Gurgaon |
| 41 | Hindustan Institute of Engineering Technology | Chennai |
| 42 | Siddhartha Engineering College | Vijayvada |
| 43 | Sona College of Technology | Salem |
| 44 | Galgotia | Noida |
| 45 | VIT | Pune |
| 46 | Yeswantrao Chavan College of Engineering | Nagpur |
| 47 | Sree Chitra Thirunal College of Engineering | Thiruvananthapuram |
| 48 | Kakatiya Institute of Technology & Science | Warangal |
| 49 | KLE Society's College of Engineering | Belgaum |
| 50 | JSS Academy of Technical Education | Bangalore |