The TOP 10 engineering colleges of India 2012

India Today has released the results of its annual survey of the best Indian colleges 2012. In the first part of a series, we bring you the top 10 engineering colleges, as per their findings.
One of the leading magazines in the country, India Today has prepared a list of the best colleges in India for this year.
The publication partnered with global marketing and advertising research company Nielsen to draw up a list of colleges using data from the Internet, various published reports and the Association of Indian Universities Handbook. Over 1,500 colleges were listed stream-wise.
Next, an expert panel comprising faculties and teachers from across the various institutions in each city completed a structured questionnaire where they had to judge each of these colleges and distribute 100 points across five parameters -- reputation of colleges, quality of academic input, student care, infrastructure and job prospects.
To ensure that there was no bias, all the aforesaid experts were forbidden from rating their own colleges. The perceptual scores for colleges were thus procured.
For the third round, a different panel of experts were asked to rate the above colleges in their respective streams, bearing the national perspective in mind.
To finalise the overall rankings, colleges that featured in the top 50 in the arts, science and commerce streams, the top 25 in the engineering, medicine and law streams and the top 10 in BBA, BCA, mass communication and journalism, fashion, fine arts, were asked to provide factual data. Those colleges that did not provide the factual data were not considered in the final ranking process.
After combining the perceptual scores and factual data, the final rankings were established.