Copy of Top Colleges for Masters in CSE (in India).docx

Index here is not a ranking especially for the non top-twelve colleges. Its just a collection of decent colleges for Masters in CSE (in India) with information about each.

IndexInstituteProgramLast Rank (General)CommentsFuture scope

1.Indian Institute of Science

Best research institute in India. Inter-departmental courses are allowed here.

Since, bachelors are not there in Engineering, Masters students are not required to do any teaching assistantship. But they get Rs. 8000 stipend from MHRD.ME in CSA dept.(2 years)50-80(60 seats)CSA is the computer science dept. of IIScBest for pursuing higher studies abroad. The on campus placement facilities werent great but most students get the best placements both through on campus as well as off campus hiring. MS, IBM-IRL, etc comes for on campus and FB, Google etc usually recruits through off campus.

1.1ME in SSA

1.2M Tech in SERCGate cutoff around 600 for interviews.More infoSERC dept is working on supercomputing area

1.3MSc in CSA dept.Gate cutoff around 1000 for interviews(15-20 seats)MSc is more into research. While ME students have to take 10 courses, MSc students need only 3 courses but they have a strict publication requirement. Most students take 2-3 years to complete

1.4ME in DESE deptGate cutoff around 1000 for interviews

Mostly taken by Electronic students, but due to the presence of microcontrollers, some CS students also prefer this

1.5Direct PhD

2IIT-B For those looking for placements IIT-B might be better than IISc. ( Hence IIT B - M Tech and IISc - ME are usually filled simultaneously)M Tech in CSE (2 years TA)100

2.1M Tech in CSE (3 years RA)Gate cutoff around 1000 for interviews

3TIFR

4IIT-KM tech in CSE (2 Years)70 seats

Direct admission - under 100 rank,

Upto rank 400 for Written and interview for general category

5IIT-MM tech in CSE (2 Years)150-170(54 seats)Good placement.

5.1MS20 seats (2-3 years)

6IIT-D56 seats, direct admission last rank around 100. After interview last rank was around 220

6.1MSPrefer Experience candidates (same for research position in other IITs, profs prefer experience)

7CMI

8IIT-KgpM.Tech in CSE

40 seats. Last rank around 180Option to convert to PhD as in other IITs/ IISc100% placements in 2011,12,13 (data unavailable for 2014). Alumni now at Google, FB, MS, MSR, Amazon, Epic, Walmart Labs, SAP.Scope for PhD too. Admits to Purdue, UIUC, MPI-SWS, Aarhus , state universities of USA etc . http://www.facweb.iitkgp.ernet.in/~niloy/studentscorner/index_files/Page348.htm

8.1M.S in CSEStrong areas: Cryptography, Number Theory, Complex Networks, Formal Methods, ML (NLP in particular), Theoretical Distributed Systems (Prof. A Gupta), Computer Graphics, S/W Engg, Real Time systems ( Prof Rajib Mall )Mostly PhD. Admits to Oxford, UIUC etc.There have been students placed in Amazon etc too.

If you want to do MS in KGP CS , this blog post will help you :

http://gate0000.wordpress.com/2012/03/29/iit-kgp-msphd-some-points-to-remember/

8.2M.Tech in Embedded System DesignNew course, well suited for embedded systems area. Admits ECE, EEE, CSE graduates.

9IIT-G

10IIT-Roorkee

11IIIT-Delhi On the Basis of gate score now.Good college, faculty is good, A dynamic director . Placement is ok , it will good in future.Here is the blog from the Director , please go through it, you will Learn many things related to academics http://jalote.wordpress.com/

12IIIT-Hown entrance testgood in Intradiscipli-nary research .Faculty is good.Placement too.(Fee is high)MS programme is also there, If you dont get IIT , join here will no harm.

a good group exists in FB with IIITH seniors and their experience :

https://wpww.facebook.com/groups/202190299804394/

Interview experience:

http://iiith-race.blogspot.in/

13IIIT-Bown entrance testgood college in placement and teacher, fee is high. Interview experience :

http://www.techbite.in/search/label/IIIT-B

13.1MS in CS and ECEfor industry candidates and experience ones.

14NIT-Suratkalgood for placement.

15NIT-Trichygood for placement.

16JNU

17IIIT-HyderabadRegular M tech and M Tech (RA) available . Good placement.

18IIIT-AllahabadThrough Central Counselling of NITs from this year

Placement track record of the institute is disastrous so if you are coming for job...IIITA will be a bad option . . the R&D activities in IIIT-A is too good....the number of journals which gets published every year is strikingly high . Good hope from the next session placement as of TPO changedInterview experience :

http://www.techbite.in/2010/06/iiit-allahabad-mtech-selection-process.html

19NIT-Cgood for academics and placement.

20

BITS-PilaniM.E C.S & M.E Software.SystemsAdmission throughBITSAT HDGood faculty along with good placement.

21BITS-Goa

M.E Software SystemsAdmission throughBITSAT HD

22BITS-HyderabadM.E C.SAdmission throughBITSAT HDplacement is ok.

23VITVIT entrance test All money made stuffs done here . Do not believe in their Rankings in reputed newspapers.

24IIITM-KMSc ITIts run by Kerala govt but fee is 50k per semester. Research facilities are very good here. Scholarships are availableGood guys can expect good research opportunities as many faculties are extremely good. But if you are not keen in research, job opportunities might not be great. (only IT jobs)

MSc-CS

The below colleges are reputed but not from a MTech point of view. Those who are good can get decent placements. If you want to work in Academia in future ,then only join these below mention colleges for M Tech in CSE, here for placements mainly Service based companies come.

25CEG Guindy

26CET TrivandrumM Tech (2 years)

around 3000Govt college with 8k scholarshipThis is the best college in Kerala after NIT-C. Placements here are just below that of NITs. Though research or teaching isnt great, due to the high talent students Amazon, MS etc usually come for placements but they select only the top guys.

27Thapar University

28ITER ( SOA University ) provide M Tech in CSE, CSDP and CSIT ,three sections in school of Computer science.~60 sits.

own exam +Gate score Gate score holders get 5,000 from 2nd year of their M Tech.They are good in academics in Orissa, trying to improve.

29CUSAT

30PEC

31DIMAT, Raipur

32

VSSUT Burla

Good college in Orissa for academics.

33 NITIE National Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE)Courses offered: PGDIE, PGDMM, PGDPMGATE Score + InterviewManagement degree through Gate score .Average Package (2012): 11.83 Lakhs per annum .

ONLINE APPLICATION PORTAL HAS BEEN PUT ON THE WEBSITE:

http://www.nitie.edu/applyonline_ie_mm_pm/index.php

For complete details about the Institution and Programs offered,

please refer Admission Brochure-2014.

http://www.nitie.edu/applyonline_ie_mm_pm/BROCHURE.pdf

http://www.nitie.edu/MANDATORY%20DISCLOSURES-2012.pdf

34IIT BHUSystems Science under Electrical department.

35Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad

36Jadavpur UniversityTalented students join here because of High Competition ( for B tech mainly ). Number one Engineering college in WB.

37

IIEST -ShibpurGood student , good faculty. Now as being IIEST, they will improve their research quality .

38(DA-IICT) GandhinagarGood for ICT course .

39VNIT NagpurGood in Academics.

40HCU ( University of Hyderabad )Good in Academics. , some professors also doing research here.

41ISI KOLKATAaccept Gate score with cut off,those not having Gate score for them conduct own exam and interview.Areas where professors working :

Computational Intelligence. Soft computing techniques, data mining,cryptography ,machine learning, complexity theory , computer vision etc areas related to mathematics.http://www.quora.com/Indian-Statistical-Institute/How-does-one-get-admitted-into-ISI/answer/Bipul-Islam?share=1

Bibliography:1. some information about different institutes tmlhttp://ramanclasses.org/accepting_GATE.sh

2. If you want to know about Research areas of different IITs, this post may help you

http://gate0000.wordpress.com/2012/05/27/research-areas-of-computer-science-in-different-iit/

3. https://www.facebook.com/groups/core.cs/permalink/443481272350798/

Few information about top colleges in India By Arvind Devaraj .

4. How to choose an engineering college other than IIT an IIT Kanpur professor view

http://dsanghi.blogspot.in/2009/08/how-to-choose-engineering-college.html

some college list from the same http://dsanghi.blogspot.in/2011/05/my-2011-list-of-recommeThended-csit.html

5. http://t5e.iitm.ac.in/2012/11/applying-abroad-for-msphd-faqs/

6. GATE score is accepted in many other places also. The below link shows the acceptance of GATE score in IIM-A. Similarly GATE score is accepted in many foreign universities including NUS and some German universities.

http://www.iimahd.ernet.in/programmes/fpm/how-to-apply/eligibility-criteria.html

7. Gate score cutoff in NITs (2013)se.in/gatechttp://gatecse/images/8/87/Ccmt2013-cutoff-list-round2.pdf

8. Cutoffs in 2013http://gatecse.in/wiki/Cut_offs_for_201qs/

6. GATE score is accepted in many other places also. The below link shows the acceptance of GATE score in IIM-A. Similarly GATE score is accepted in many foreign uni3

9. GATE Interview Experiences:https://www.facebook.com/notes/gate-interview-experiences/institute-wise-list/122602751281701

10. For those below rank 200:https://www.facebook.com/groups/Top100Gate2014/permalink/682257268497025/?stream_ref=2