Based on the student preferences given at http://www.bput.org/Jee05/seats_allotted.asp following is a ranking of engineering colleges in Orissa that I made on Aug 17th, 2006. Rank Rank of Rank of Rank of Inst in 10th 50th 100th #studentsin 2005 Code 2005 or last or last or last student student student admtd. admtd. admtd. 2005 2005 2005 2006 2006 2006 NIT (admission not through BPUT) Rourkela KIT 5 (Deemed Univ, 2006 admission not through BPUT) BBSR 1 CET 1 18 55 121 270 College of Engg, BBSR (govt) 21 96 165 2 UCE 2 31 100 264 270 Univ College of Engg, Burla (govt) 52 135 353 3 ITR 3 69 180 293 405 ITER, BBSR (private) 119 201 373 4 NST 4 84 341 587 337 NIST, Berhampur (private) 191 376 1095 4 SIT 6 197 494 738 270 Silicon Inst, BBSR (private) 182 354 1278 6 CVR 6 160 470 748 382 CV Raman, BBSR (private) 215 439 1193 7 IGT 9 121 917 2795 130 IGIT, Sarang (govt) 125 615 1654 8 OEC 8 197 524 785 359 Orissa Engg College, BBSR (private) 258 566 1770 9 GIT 9 348 1066 2087 345 GIET, Gunupur (private) 317 795 1884 10 GIB 14 819 1625 4596 180 Gandhi Inst, BBSR (private) 408 1025 2669 11 KEC 9 489 1227 2224 315 Krupajala Engg, BBSR (private) 376 1109 3185 11 CEB 12 444 1587 3617 290 College of Engg, BBSR (private) 319 1149 3602 11 EAS 12 420 1547 4500 202 Eastern, BBSR (private) 487 1195 3336 14 KID 29 2849 4311 19942 80 Koustuva Inst., BBSR (private) 247 2255 2759 14 GEC New 634 1467 4429(73) Gandhi Engg College, BBSR 16 PCE 15 430 2037 6428 180 Padmanav College of Engg, RKL (private) 492 1653 17 DRM 15 674 2644 6247 300 Dhaneshwar Rath, Tangi, CTC (private) 564 1813 17 TAC 17 744 2880 8901 180 Trident academy, BBSR (private) TAT 402 2200 3392 19 OSM 18 204 4448 13524 90 Orissa Sc. of mines, Keonjhar (govt) 303 3263 19 SYN 18 1429 3604 9058 250 Synergy Inst, Dhenkanal (private) 771 2060 19 KIS 18 1218 3618 10934 201 Konark Inst, Jatni (private) 640 2850 22 ABT 25 1544 7984 12531 179 Ajai Binay, CTC (private) 657 3401 22 MIB 29 2252 8342 16650 121 Mahavir Inst., BBSR (private) 761 3355 24 JIP 21 1099 4283 12355 150 Jagannath Inst, Parlakemudi (private) 957 4412 25 PIE 26 1916 9532 13286 142 Purushottam Inst., RKL (private) 1836 4003 26 NMI 23 1588 6717 12499 166 NM Inst, BBSR (private) 841 4415(48) 26 SEC 23 976 7583 13652 168 Seemanta Engg., Mayurbhanj (private) 818 4739(46) 28 RIT 21 1025 3226 13419 138 Roland Inst., Berhampur (private) 743 4083(42) 29 REC New 955 3934(39) Rajdhani College of Eng& mgmt Bhubaneswar 30 TTS New 1177 4009(39) (Techno School, BBSR) 31 GHT 26 2368 8429 12583 180 Ghanashyam Hemalata, Puri (private) 1023 4785(37) 31 IAC 26 2201 9541 13285 158 Inst of Advance, Rayagada (private) 1557 4810(40) 31 MIT 32 2053 16008 19806 61 Majhighariani Inst., Raygada (private) 1883 4487(41) 34 BCE 37 6555 19903 48 Balasore College of Engg. (private) 1923 4812(39) 35 PKA 35 3036 19837 44 Padmashree ..., Baragarh (private) 1285 4730(33) 36 BIT 29 1649 9497 16185 120 Bhadrakh Inst. (private) 1694 3994(30) 37 ITT 32 1877 19172 32 Inst of Textile Tech., Chouduar (govt) 1287 4552(25) 38 SMT 35 3533 19151 35 Sanjay ..., Berhempur (private) 2321 4556(28) 39 SCS 38 7992 15499 14 Samant Chandra Sekhar..., Koraput (private) 2781 4844(18) 40 JIC 32 2527 15694 17780 73 Jagannath Inst., CTC (private) 2602 3375(16) 41 SAT New 4387 4683(16) (Satya Sai Engg College, Balasore) 42 DCA New 2201(2) ?????? 43 GCE 39 17545 2 Gopal Krishna..., Jeypore (private) 2694(2) 44 DKA New 3449(2) ?????? Disclaimer: This ranking is only based on the student admission data of 2005 and 2006. I have sampled the data from BPUT web pages into three columns: the ranks of the 10th, 50th and 100th (and if the number of students is less than 50, then the ranking of the last) student admitted to a college. My ranking does not take into account any other aspect. Students should do their own research (such as visiting the web pages, look at the number and qualification of faculty a college has, a college's record in terms of campus recruitment, the opinions of alumni etc.) to decide what college would be best for them. -- Chitta. Aug 17th, 2006. Earlier thoughts (August 12th 2005): Considering that the government colleges such as CET and UCE are so popular and the fact that now-a-days loans are easily available to engineering students, the Orissa government should hook up with a couple of banks, borrow money to upgrade the govt colleges (such as CET and UCE), increase the fees at those colleges to 80% of the private college fees to serve the bank loan, and guarantee loans (though banks) to all those who get admission. The government should wisely use the resulting fund to improve the infrastructure of these colleges. With this source of money and the fact that, government does not have to spend money on land, and there is already a budget for the exisiting faculty, there is no reason why CET and UCE can not have the infrastructure of KIIT or ITER or NIST.