Oldest Engineering Colleges in India
There are lot of Engineering Colleges in India. I can say one state Example for Engineering Colleges in Tamilnadu. In Tamilnadu we have 650+ Engineering Colleges, so its is difficult find which one is oldest Engineering Colleges in Tamlnadu. So that we have find the Oldest Engineering Colleges in India List here.
If you want to do Engineering as your dream and try out these colleges and some of the top colleges are missing in the below chart .
Engineering colleges in India are ranked by several magazines and newspapers. Colleges ranked are ones with full-time Bachelor of Engineering or Bachelor of Technology programs.
In India, there are several engineering colleges imparting undergraduate and graduate courses in engineering, applied engineering and sciences. The Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, the Manipal Institute of Technology, the National Institutes of Technology (NITs), Anna university ,the VIT University and University of Mumbai are the renowned and reputed institutes in the country. In total more than 5000 universities and colleges offer engineering courses.
The impulse for creation of centers of technical training came from the British rulers of India.While superintending engineers were mostly recruited from Britain, lower grades-craftsmen, artisans and sub-overseers who were recruited locally.The necessity to make them more efficient, led to the establishment of industrial schools attached to Ordnance Factories and other engineering establishments.The first engineering college was established in the U.P. in 1847 for the training of Civil Engineers at Roorkee,Thomason College(which later become IIT Roorkee) which made use of the large workshops and public buildings there that were erected for the Upper Ganges Canal.In pursuance of the Government policy, three Engineering Colleges were opened by about 1856 in the three Presidencies. In Bengal, a College called the Calcutta College of Civil Engineering was opened at the Writers' Buildings in November 1856.In Bombay,the overseers' school at Pune eventually became the Pune College of Engineering and affiliated to the Bombay University in 1858.In the Madras Presidency, the industrial school attached to the Gun Carriage Factory became ultimately the Guindy College of Engineering and affiliated to the Madras University (1858).
Anna University is one of the premier educational institutions located in Chennai. There are also a lot of engineering colleges that are affiliated under the University located all around Tamil Nadu. College of Engineering Guindy (CEG) also has the distinction of being the first engineering institute in India when it was founded as a School of Survey in 1794 under the Madras University before most of the engineering colleges in the State were merged under Anna University in 1978.
In 1947 when India became independent, there were 36 institutions for first degree engineering education, with an annual intake of about 2500 students.
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