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In India, technical education has become very expensive. Education in government institutions is affordable but seats are limited. Private institutions are mushrooming up in different fields of technical education and charging exorbitant fees for imparting education. In absence of proper guidance and knowledge, students find great difficulties in selecting approved and reputed institutions. Another disadvantage of geting admitted to an institution not having good reputation is difficulty in getting an education loan granted by the financial instituitions. Such students should verify whether a particular instituion is included or not in the approved list of institutions. Fortunately, Few leading publication houses like "India Today" and "Outllok" have taken up the responsibility on their shoulders and based on survey results, publishing the results and doing thankless job of ranking of institutes of different streams. However, their results help students in selecting institutes approved by competent authority and providing good education..

In India, annual surveys of academic excellence are made by two publication houses and these are 1. The India Today Group and 2. Outlook group

While rankings by these groups are largely a perception-based score but this perceptions is from within the the Indian academic community. Its not easy to make a quantitative survey as gaining access to such a large data (about 18,000 colleges) is not only difficult but next to impossible as it will require huge efforts, a large chunk of human resources and money. As per the Aroon Purie, Editor-in-chief of India Today, UGC backed National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) could get only 20% of the college under its ambit in 14 years of its existence as revealed in the editorial remarks.

Click here to find top colleges in arts, science, commerce, medical, and enginneering for last 10 years as per India Today-AC Nelson-ORG-Marg Survey

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Top Ten Arts Colleges:

The List of top 10 Arts colleges for the year 2008 as per The India Today-AC NELSEN-ORG-MARG Survey ranking is given below.

1. Loyola College, Chennai

2. St. Xavier's College, Mumbai

3. St. Stephen's College, Delhi

4. Presidency College, Kolkata

5. Lady Shri Ram College for Women, Delhi

6. Christ College, Banglore

7. Fergusson College, Pune

8. Madras Christian College, Chennai

9. St. Xavier's College, Kolkata

10. Stella Maris College, Chennai

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Top Ten Law Colleges:

The List of top 10 Law colleges for the year 2008 as per The India Today-AC NELSEN-ORG-MARG Survey ranking is given below.

1. NALSAR, Hyderabad

2. NLSIU, Bangalore

3. Campus Law Centre, Delhi University, Delhi

4. National Law University, Bhopal

5. NUJS, Kolkata

6. ILS Law College, Pune

7. Government Law College, Mumbai

8. Symbiosis Society's Law College, Pune

9. National Law Institute University, Jodhpur

10. Faculty of Law, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi

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Top 15 Medical Colleges as per Outlook survey for 2008

1. AIIMS, Delhi

2. Christian Medical College, Vellore

3. AFMC, Pune

4. JIPMER, Pondicherry

5. St John's Medical College, Bangalore

6. King George's Medical College, Lucknow

7. Nangalore Medical College, Bangalore

8.Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences & Research Centre, Kochi

9. University College of Medical Sciences, Delhi

10. Osmania Medical College, Hyderabad

11. Gandhi Medical College, Secunderabad

12. MS Ramaiah Medical College, Bangalore

13. Christian Medical College, Ludhiana

14. Andhra Medical College, Vishakhapatnam

15. Sri Ramchandra Medical College & Research Institute, Chennai

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Top 50 Private Engineering Colleges in India as per the Outlook India Survey 2007:

1. BITS, Pilani 2.BIT Mesra, 3. PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, 4. Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, Patiala, 5. Dhirubhai Ambani Inst. of Information & Technology, Gandhinagar, 6. Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal, 7. Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, 8. VJTI, Mumbai, 9. SSN College of Engineering, Chennai, 10. RV College of Engineering, Bangalore, 11. PES Institute of Technology, Bangalore, 12. Sardar Patel College of Engineering, Mumbai, 13. Maharashtra Institute of Technology, Pune, 14. SJ College of Engineering, Mysore, 15. SASTRA UNiversity, Thanjavur, 16. Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, 17. Nirma Institute of Technology, Ahmedabad, 18. BMS College of Engineering, Bangalore, 19. SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai, 20. Bangalore Institute of Technology, Bangalore, 21. Sathyabhama Engineering College, Chennai, 22. Gitam, Vishakhapatnam, 23. National Institute of Engineering, Mysore, 24. The ICFAI Institute of Science and Technology, Hyderabad, 25. Mepko Schlenk Engineering College, Sivakasi, 26. Amrita Institute of Technology & Science, Coimbatore, 27. Sri Ramdeo Baba KN Engineering College, Nagpur, 28. Karunya Institute of Technology, Coibatore, 29. Kongu Engineering College, Perundurai, 30. Sreenidhi Institute of Science and Technology, Hyderabad, 31. SDM College of Engineering, Dharwad, 32. Mufkham Jah Engineering College, Hyderabad, 33. MS Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bangalore, 34. Vasavi College of Engineering, Hyderabad, 35. Jaypee University of Information Technology, Solan, 36. RVR & JC College of Engineering, Guntur, 37.Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology, Bhubaneshwar, 38. KL College of Engineering, Vaddeswaram, 39. Babu Banarasi Das College, Lucknow, 40. Institute of Technology and Management, Gurgaon, 41. Hindustan Institute of Engineering Technology, Chennai, 42. Siddhartha Engineering College, Vijayawada, 43. Sona College of Technology, Salem, 44. Galgotia, Noida, 45. VIT, Pune, 46. Yeshwantrao Chavan College of Engineering, Nagpur, 47. Sree Chitra Thirunal College of Engineering, Thiruvananthapuram, 48. Kakatiya Institute of Technology & Science, Warangal, 49. KLE Society's College of Engineering, Belgaum, 50. JSS Academy of Technical Education, Bangalore