Hello Aspirant

Yes, There will be good scope for civil engineering as per the recent surveys. It has good scope in construction and building departments mainly .for example to construct a railway routes, bridges etc.

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Top colleges for civil engineering:

VIT university
SRM university ,Chennai
Sastra university
Manipal institute of technology, Manipal
IIT Madras
IIT Delhi
IIT Bombay
Amrita school of engineering, Coimbatore
IIT Kharagpur
Gitam university,Vizag etc

If you have any other doubts further let me know.

Hope this information will helps you!!!

Thank you!!!!