If you don’t clear the JEE Advanced or have decided not to take JEE Advanced, its not the end of the road. There are lot of good options as you belong to that group pf students who have done very well in JEE Mains. So no need to feel dejected! One can search on the google or take help of higher education portals in the country. The road map is to first look at top engineering colleges in India, then look at college list of one’s state.
There is a long list of Engineering colleges in India; lot of them are very popular and are listed as top colleges in India. These engineering colleges are ranked among the best in the world and accept admissions based on JEE Mains score.
There are some engineering colleges, which have an entrance exam of their own. VIT, BITS and a few more have their own entrance exam and might not accept JEE Mains as its primary mode of enrolling students. Some states also don’t accept JEE Main marks and conduct their own Exams.
List based on the MHRD’s NIRF rankings:
| University | NIRF Rank |
| Anna University, Chennai | 9 |
| National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli | 10 |
| Jadavpur University | 14 |
| National Institute of Technology, Rourkela | 16 |
| Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore | 18 |
| Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala | 23 |
| Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pillani | 25 |
| NIT, Calicut | 28 |
| Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology | 31 |
| Birla Institute of Technology, Goa | 33 |
| Delhi Technological University, Delhi | 34 |
| SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai | 36 |
| Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar College of Engineering | 37 |
| International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad | 39 |
| Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal | 43 |
| NIT, Durgapur | 46 |
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