JEE Main 2025: NTA will announce exam date and registration date on jeemain.nta.nic.in. Know best government, private engineering colleges.
Vagisha Kaushik | October 24, 2024 | 04:41 PM IST
NEW DELHI: The National Testing Agency (NTA) will conduct the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Main 2025 for admission of students to undergraduate engineering and architecture programmes offered by the National Institutes of Technology (NITs), Indian Institutes of Information Technology (IIITs), and other government and private institutes. JEE Main is also used as a prerequisite for JEE Advanced which is held for admission to the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs).
JEE Mains exam comprises two papers – paper 1 for BE and BTech courses and paper 2 for BArch and BPlanning programmes. The national engineering entrance exam was held in two sessions last year with session 1 conducted in January and session 2 in April.
JEE Main 2025 registration will commence soon on the new official website, jeemain.nta.nic.in. Last year, the testing agency commenced the application process on November 1.
NIT Tiruchirappalli emerged as the best NIT in the country in this year’s National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) 2024 for the engineering category. Students aspiring to become engineers can take a look at the top engineering colleges in the country.
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As per NIRF ranking 2024, these are the best NITs in India:
NIT | NIRF rank |
NIT Tiruchirappalli | 9 |
NIT Karnataka, Surathkal | 17 |
NIT Rourkela | 19 |
NIT Warangal | 21 |
NIT Calicut | 25 |
Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology (VNIT), Nagpur | 39 |
NIT Silchar | 40 |
Malaviya National Institute of Technology (MNIT), Jaipur | 43 |
NIT Durgapur | 44 |
NIT Delhi | 45 |
The top government and private engineering colleges in India based on NIRF 2024 ranking are as follows:
Top government engineering colleges in India
Name of institute | NIRF 2024 ranking |
Jadavpur University, Kolkata | 12 |
Anna University, Chennai | 14 |
Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi | 24 |
Delhi Technological University | 27 |
Chandigarh University | 32 |
Aligarh Muslim University | 33 |
Netaji Subhas University of Technology (NSUT) | 57 |
Dr. B R Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar | 58 |
Top private engineering colleges in India
Name of institute | NIRF 2024 ranking |
Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT), Tamil Nadu | 11 |
SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai | 13 |
Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani | 20 |
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore | 23 |
Siksha `O` Anusandhan, Bhubaneswar | 26 |
Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology | 29 |
Amity University, Noida | 30 |
Koneru Lakshmaiah Education Foundation University (K L College of Engineering) | 35 |
Kalasalingam Academy of Research and Education, Tamil Nadu | 36 |
Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology, Odisha | 37 |
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