1. Facilities – A big parameter used for ranking is often facilities. But for an undergraduate education none of these “high tech “facilities really matter. Those who have been through udergrad education knows that the necessary labs are not so high tech and it can be provided without much funding. I don think any of the institutes that has been “ranked” in top 50 or 100 lack any of these basic infrastructure needed in terms of labs or library or computers needed for an undergraduate education.
These facilities become important at grad level and even IISc lacks a good grad education system. So facility is not a big deal in any of these institutes

2. Faculty – Faculty is selected based on the criteria set by AICTE, which directs to have Phd holders to be in different grades of professor. You can go through the list of all these institutes and see who all are lacking that. Most of them dont lack that!
So in terms of faculty none of these institutes are behind. Then why is faculty important? They become important when they do research..
And the story of research in any Indian institute including IISc is pathetic. You don have to beleive me, just go to the faculty websites of these institutes and count the number of “INTERNATIONAL” journal publications they made in last 5-10 years, it cannot be compared with that of a chineese or Korean institute even! Basically all the profs enjoy their job like a “govt” employ, being lazy and doing nothing, except a few here and there. As an undergrad you don have to worry abt research coz unless u get to masters level u wont be in a position to start a research. So faculty is not a worry in any of these institutes and there is no point in a ranking based on faculty unless they do research.

3. Student Input – This is what really makes the difference in any institute. The alumni of IIT or any big institute acheived great heights not bcoz they belonged to IIT its coz they are really talented. It doesnt really matter where the talent is nurtured whether in IIT or a college near ur house, a talented guy will allways stand out. You can have tons of examples of ppl who did not go to IIT, but became great!
So, if you have confidence that you can become a great engineer you dont have to be in IIT. Just nurture the passion and keep learning, IITs do not do anything special, its jus that students are in a highly competitive environment(bcoz all the 100 students in class are equally good) that they are forced to work hard. You don need that if you are really passionate about being an engineer, coz its a skill that you need to develop by working hard. After all engineering is about solving real issues, not writing exams! If you could fix your computer or work with electronics when u wer in high school then it means you have a talent, u jus have to nurture it.

Any young student out there who is reading these ranking, please dont get carried away, I have done my undergrad in one of these highly ranked institutes and I found out that except than posing a high profile they do not do anything to nurture the talent in you. So all that matters is the passion you have to become an engineer. If you work hard then jobs or grad schools will come looking for you! Please dont follow the some agencies criteria to choose a college..if you are so particular about rankings, find out wat grade AICTE gave the college, that will be good enuf.
What you need to look for is whether the college is good to give u a playground to nurture ur talent , believe me there are tons of institutes that can do that. DOnt find an institute which is lacking even the basic facilities, for undergrad all u need jus basics.

In the end its all depending on you, not the name of the institute or its rank. Getting inside any of these institutes doest guarantee a bright future or being unable to go to one of them doesnt mean you lost the battle, its all about how passionate you are in becomin an engineer!

These rankings look stupid, if they hav to be ranked they must be ranked in terms of the research contributions. What did IIT or IISc contribute to our country in terms of research? Compare that with MIT or Cambridge or ETH Zurich.

So friends, don get carried away by these rankings they r stupid, find an institution that can give u all basic requirements and work hard and be passionate of becoming a good engineer.

j.u. is one of the oldest colleges in india and has a faculty which is at par with the iits
but on the other side the placement ,infrastructure and the quality of students is no where near the likes of iits,nit trichy,warangal,surathkal,bits,or dce

in many surveys i hv seen it performing highly
but by no means it deserves to be above these colleges