Top Engineering Colleges In Andhra Pradesh Placed 52% Students: Latest Data

The six top engineering colleges of Andhra Pradesh together achieved a placement rate of just 52 percent for the BTech batch that was enrolled from 2016 to 2020, a Careers360 analysis has found.

The engineering colleges in AP that were ranked by the education ministry’s National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF 2021) were considered for the analysis. As part of the ranking exercise, participating institutions submit data on intake or number of seats, actual enrollment, graduate students, and those placed. For the latest 2021 rankings, NIRF considered data from the 2020 round of final placements for the four-year BTech batch.

The top engineering college in AP was ranked 50th on the NIRF 2021 rankings for engineering. These were the six AP colleges to be ranked among the top 200 in India by the NIRF:

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These six colleges together had around 85 percent of their enrolled students graduating in 2020. However, the placement rate – calculated with the number of students graduating in 2019-20 as a base – was just 52 percent. In comparison, Tamil Nadu’s top engineering colleges placed 66 percent; Karnataka’s placed 66 percent; Maharashtra’s placed 80 percent and Telangana placed 65 percent of their passed students. Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra and Telangana each had more than 10 institutes featured in NIRF 2021.

Data From Top Engineering Colleges in Andhra Pradesh

However, the latest available data shows trends for a round of placements conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic and hugely disrupted by it. The lockdown enforced to control the spread of the coronavirus had also severely impacted the economy and engineering jobs.

The table below gives the absolute numbers for intake, enrollment, graduating students and campus placements.

Top Engineering Colleges In Andhra Pradesh

The number of enrolled students is the sum of students admitted in the first year and the students admitted subsequently through “lateral entry”.

AP EAMCET

Vignan's Foundation for Science, Technology and Research, University College of Engineering, Velagapudi Ramakrishna Siddhartha Engineering College, Sri Venkateswara University had more enrolled students than the intake due to lateral entry.

Admission to all six top engineering colleges in AP is through the Engineering Agricultural and Medical Common Entrance Test, or AP EAMCET. While KL College of Engineering also conducts its own Engineering entrance exam – KLUEE – as does Vignan's Foundation for Science, Technology and Research, they also accept AP EAMCET scores for admission to BTech programmes.