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NIRF rankings, real fee structures, honest cutoffs, scholarships you may have missed. Verified by students currently studying there. 77 colleges curated from the official NIRF 2024 rankings — engineering, medical, management, law, universities and pharmacy. Every rank cites NIRF directly. No invented rankings, no paid placements.
Source: National Institutional Ranking Framework, Ministry of Education, Government of India (2024).
Cutoffs
Reading cutoffs honestly
JoSAA/MCC/NLU sources, 5-step method, rank predictor caveats.
Placements
Reading placement data honestly
Median vs Highest CTC, opt-out math, foreign-offer skew.
ITI · Diploma
The parallel education path
ITI trades + Polytechnic diplomas. 6.5M students; often better ROI than tier-3 BTech.
By stream
Tip: jump to the dedicated Research page for a NIRF-ranked ordered list.
By state
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Mumbai · Maharashtra · est. 1958
The largest IIT by departments. Dominant in CSE placements, the only IIT with a campus-based architecture programme, and the SJMSOM management school.
NIRF Overall #3, Engineering #3, Management #10 (2024)
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune
Pune · Maharashtra · est. 2006
Centrally-funded research-and-undergraduate institute. 5-year integrated BS-MS programme; admission via IISER Aptitude Test (IAT) or KVPY successor channels.
Shishya maintains a curated database of scholarships every Indian student can apply for — central government, state portals, private foundations, and international fellowships. All free to apply, with the official link on every entry.
Browse scholarships →Cutoff trends per college × exam × category × branch, fee structures linked to official college fee pages, placement statistics from official reports only, and AI counselling ("I scored X in JEE Main, what colleges should I consider?") that pulls from cutoff data + your category + state preference.
Phase 2 of the roadmap. Cross-link to the existing Entrance & Government Exams section for the prep side; the 77 colleges above are the first cut.