NIT Tiruchirappalli moved to 9 th Rank in Engineering, improving from last years 11 th rank with an overall score of 64.1 improving from 61.62 last year.

The Institute improved in all parameters of the ranking.

The scores improved considerably in Teaching-Learning Resources, with the recruitment of new faculty, improvement in student strength and financial resources and their utilization.

In research and professional factors, there is a substantial increase due to increase in number of application and improvement in quality of publication.

The Institute gave a strong push to Intellectual Property Rights and filing of patents and this proved to be gain changer in improving this parameter. The mphasis on submitting more projects and receiving grants, Consultancy and Continuing Education Program also brought in credits.

In graduation outcome, there was considerable improvement in placement and the medium salary offered to graduate and the number of Ph.D. scholars graduated also improved substantially which offers were taken by the Institute to improve the perception, which showed a marginal improvement.

Being No.9 in Engineering is indeed a great achievement for an NIT with only 8 established IITs ahead of NIT Tiruchirappalli in position 1 to 8 and many other IITs, renowned Universities and other Institutes are left behind.

In over all ranking also, NIT Tiruchirappalli retains its 24 th position and remained in the top 25 Educational Institutions in the country.