IIT AND KOTA

A leading globalistion and market expansion advisory firm, Zinnov released its report "Top research faculty in tier-1 engineering institutions in India" on 4 October' 2013. It includes a detailed assessment of the faculty in India's Tier-1 engineering institutions and also identifies the top faculty by major areas of research.   As per the study IISC, followed by IIT Kanpur and IIT Delhi, emerged as the top institutes for faculty research competence in India. The faculty in these institutes has the highest number of industry and government research grants, international and national journal references and conference publications and patents (approx. 90 per faculty) to their credit. In addition, these top institutes have higher proportion of senior faculty members (all PhDs) with greater overall experience.   The study also unveiled that majority of faculty members in the top institutes have good international exposure both in terms of research and teaching. The ...

A study done by a private firm has ranked IIT-Madras as the leader in faculty awards for rese­arch activities. Zinnov, a globalisation and market expansion advisory firm, on Friday released its latest study titled “Top research faculty in tier-1 engineering institutions in India”. According to the study, IIT-Madras emerged as the overall leader in bagging top awards for its faculty research with about 15 coveted achievements and awards like IEEE fellowship and Bhatnagar awards; over 60 international awards and fellowships including Humboldt fellowship, grants from multi national companies; and more than 40 national awards and fellowships. This study includes a detailed assessment of faculty in India’s tier-I engineering institutions and also identified top faculty by their areas of research. The Indian Institute of Science (IIS­C), followed by IIT-Kanpur and IIT-Delhi, emerged as the top institutes for faculty rese­arch competence in India. The faculty in these institutes h...