Increased demand for skilled manpower by India Inc and cut-throat competition among tech schools in the country has driven second rung institutes at par with premium ones.
According to research firm IDC and Dataquest, National Institute of Technology (NIT), Warangal, has emerged as the eighth best technology institute in the country, standing after the seven IITs.
The survey ranked IIT Kharagpur as the best technology school in the country followed by the remaining six IITs.
It said NITs showed the most remarkable jump over last year among the six such institutes that featured in the top 20 technology institutes list.
Driven by the robust IT sector which absorbed as much as 87 per cent engineers last year, it pushed an engineer’s average salary by 28 per cent to Rs 3.41 lakh per annum from Rs 2.66 lakh a year ago.
