Oldest Engineering Colleges in India

April 6th, 2008

I noticed there isn’t a listing of oldest engineering schools (colleges) in India ranked by established year. Here’s an attempt to draw one up:

1794 College of Engineering, Guindy
1847 IIT, Roorkee
1854 College of Engineering, Pune
1856 Bengal Engineering University, Shibpur
1900 National Institute of Technology, Patna
1917 University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering, Bangalore
1919 Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University

My alma mater from Bangalore is one of the oldest!
This list is still not complete (at least till I compile the earliest 10). If you can help complete the list, please do let me know.

5 Responses to “Oldest Engineering Colleges in India”

  1. Akshay Java Says:

    Looks like University of Mumbai is 1857. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Mumbai

  2. pranamkolari Says:

    When did it have an Engineering school?

  3. nva Says:

    PDA College of Engg has established sometime in 1957ish I guess. Dont know whether it make it 10

  4. Mayur Says:

    IISc was established in 1909

  5. lvs Says:

    Interesting to note that most of these colleges are on a downhill spiral now. Only Roorkee is saved since it became an IIT. You may find this article interesting to read. We need to fix our higher education system: http://indradhanush-laal.blogspot.com/2008/08/it-education-in-need-of-reboot.html

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