Based on the student preferences given at http://www.bput.org/Jee05/seats_allotted.asp following is a ranking of engineering colleges in Orissa that I made on Aug 12th, 2005. Rank of Rank of Rank of Inst 10th 50th 100th #students Code or last or last or last student student student admtd. admtd. admtd. 0 NIT Rourkela (admission not through BPUT) 1 CET 18 55 121 270 College of Engg, BBSR (govt) 2 UCE 31 100 264 270 Univ College of Engg, Burla (govt) 3 ITR 69 180 293 405 ITER, BBSR (private) 4 NST 84 341 587 337 NIST, Berhampur (private) 5 KIT 130 287 659 165 KIIT, BBSR (private) 6 SIT 197 494 738 270 Silicon Inst, BBSR (private) 6 CVR 160 470 748 382 CV Raman, BBSR (private) 8 OEC 197 524 785 359 Orissa Engg College, BBSR (private) 9 GIT 348 1066 2087 345 GIET, Gunupur (private) 9 IGT 121 917 2795 130 IGIT, Sarang (govt) 9 KEC 489 1227 2224 315 Krupajala Engg, BBSR (private) 12 CEB 444 1587 3617 290 College of Engg, BBSR (private) 12 EAS 420 1547 4500 202 Eastern, BBSR (private) 14 GIB 819 1625 4596 180 Gandhi Inst, BBSR (private) 15 DRM 674 2644 6247 300 Dhaneshwar Rath, Tangi, CTC (private) 15 PCE 430 2037 6428 180 Padmanav College of Engg, RKL (private) 17 TAC 744 2880 8901 180 Trident academy, BBSR (private) 18 OSM 204 4448 13524 90 Orissa Sc. of mines, Keonjhar (govt) 18 SYN 1429 3604 9058 250 Synergy Inst, Dhenkanal (private) 18 KIS 1218 3618 10934 201 Konark Inst, Jatni (private) 21 RIT 1025 3226 13419 138 Roland Inst., Berhampur (private) 21 JIP 1099 4283 12355 150 Jagannath Inst, Parlakemudi (private) 23 NMI 1588 6717 12499 166 NM Inst, BBSR (private) 23 SEC 976 7583 13652 168 Seemanta Engg., Mayurbhanj (private) 25 ABT 1544 7984 12531 179 Ajai Binay, CTC (private) 26 GHT 2368 8429 12583 180 Ghanashyam Hemalata, Puri (private) 26 IAC 2201 9541 13285 158 Inst of Advance, Rayagada (private) 26 PIE 1916 9532 13286 142 Purushottam Inst., RKL (private) 29 KID 2849 4311 19942 80 Koustuva Inst., BBSR (private) 29 BIT 1649 9497 16185 120 Bhadrakh Inst. (private) 29 MIB 2252 8342 16650 121 Mahavir Inst., BBSR (private) 32 JIC 2527 15694 17780 73 Jagannath Inst., CTC (private) 32 MIT 2053 16008 19806 61 Majhighariani Inst., Raygada (private) 32 ITT 1877 19172 32 Inst of Textile Tech., Chouduar (govt) 35 PKA 3036 19837 44 Padmashree ..., Baragarh (private) 35 SMT 3533 19151 35 Sanjay ..., Berhempur (private) 37 BCE 6555 19903 48 Balasore College of Engg. (private) 38 SCS 7992 15499 14 Samant Chandra Sekhar..., Koraput (private) 39 GCE 17545 2 Gopal Krishna..., Jeypore (private) Disclaimer: This ranking is only based on the student admission data of 2005. I have sampled the data from BPUT web pages into three columns: the ranks of the 10th, 50th and 100th (and if the number of students is less than 100, then the ranking of the last) student admitted to a college. My ranking does not take into account any other aspect. Students should do their own research (such as visiting the web pages, look at the number and qualification of faculty a college has, a college's record in terms of campus recruitment, the opinions of alumni etc.) to decide what college would be best for them. -- Chitta. Aug 12th, 2005. Further thoughts (August 12th 2005): Considering that the government colleges such as CET and UCE are so popular and the fact that now-a-days loans are easily available to engineering students, the Orissa government should hook up with a couple of banks, borrow money to upgrade the govt colleges (such as CET and UCE), increase the fees at those colleges to 80% of the private college fees to serve the bank loan, and guarantee loans (though banks) to all those who get admission. The government should wisely use the resulting fund to improve the infrastructure of these colleges. With this source of money and the fact that, government does not have to spend money on land, and there is already a budget for the exisiting faculty, there is no reason why CET and UCE can not have the infrastructure of KIIT or ITER or NIST.