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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.
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Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences
Lucknow · Uttar Pradesh · est. 1983
UP's flagship postgraduate medical institute. Strong nephrology, gastroenterology, cardiology and endocrinology departments.
NIRF Medical #6 (2024)
King George's Medical University
Lucknow · Uttar Pradesh · est. 1911
Among India's oldest medical institutions. Now a full state medical university with MBBS admission via NEET UG state quota.
NIRF Medical #12 (2024)
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.