Oldest Engineering colleges in India
India possesses a glorious educational background and heritage when it comes to Knowledge and Learning.
India was a land that fascinated foreigners from immemorial. They always wondered about the legacies and developments owned by this particular country.
The presence of educational institutions such as ‘Nalanda‘ and ‘Taxila‘ universities bear testimony to the age-old cultural treasures of knowledge of India.
Numerous manuscripts and scriptures also add to the fact that India was originally a land of hidden gems of wisdom. It is from this unparalleled supremacy in learning, many of the educational institutions gained roots in India.
It is somewhat interesting to note that the history of Engineering Colleges in India dates back to the post-independence era.
Here is the list of 70 oldest engineering colleges in India
| Sl No. | Name of the Engineering College | Year of establishment |
| 1 | Thomason College of Civil Engineering, Roorkee, Uttarakhand | 1847 |
| 2 | College of Engineering, Pune | 1854 |
| 3 | Bengal Engineering College | 1856 |
| 4 | College of Engineering, Guindy | 1858 |
| 5 | College of Engineering, Bihar | 1886 |
| 6 | Victoria Jubilee Technical Institute, Bombay | 1887 |
| 7 | Faculty of Technology and Engineering, | 1890 |
| 8 | Bengal Technical Institute Jadavpur | 1905 |
| 9 | Indian Institute of Science (Tata Institute) | 1911 |
| 10 | University College of Science and Technology, Vadodara | 1914 |
| 11 | College of Engineering, Bangalore | 1917 |
| 12 | Banaras Engineering College | 1919 |
| 13 | Government College of Engineering and Leather Technology (GCELT), Kolkata | 1919 |
| 14 | Harcourt Butler Technological Institute, Kanpur | 1920 |
| 15 | PEC University of Technology | 1921 |
| 16 | Indian School of Mines, Jharkhand | 1926 |
| 17 | Andhra University | 1926 |
| 18 | Annamalai University, Chidambaram | 1929 |
| 19 | University College of Engineering, Osmania University, | 1929 |
| 20 | College of Engineering, Trivandrum | 1939 |
| 21 | Delhi Technological University, Delhi | 1941 |
| 22 | Government College of Engineering and Ceramic Technology | 1941 |
| 23 | Arthur Hope College of Technology, Coimbatore | 1945 |
| 24 | National Institute of Engineering, Mysore | 1946 |
| 25 | B.M.S. College of Engineering | 1946 |
| 26 | JNTU College of Engineering | 1946 |
| 27 | Government Engineering College, Jabalpur | 1947 |
| 28 | Madras Institute of Technology | 1949 |
| 29 | Madhav Institute of Technology and Science, Gwalior | 1957 |
| 30 | Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur | 1959 |
| 31 | Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, Bhopal | 1960 |
| 32 | NSS College of Engineering, Palakkad | 1960 |
| 33 | Delhi Technological University | 1961 |
| 34 | National Institute of Technology Calicut | 1961 |
| 35 | Rewa Engineering College, Rewa | 1964 |
| 36 | National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli | 1964 |
| 37 | Government College of Engineering, Salem | 1966 |
| 38 | Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University | 1972 |
| 39 | Kakatiya University | 1976 |
| 40 | School of Engineering, CUSAT | 1979 |
| 41 | Government College of Engineering, Tirunelveli | 1981 |
| 42 | Indira Gandhi Engineering College Sagar | 1981 |
| 43 | Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology | 1983 |
| 44 | Government College of Engineering, Kannur | 1986 |
| 45 | Jamia Hamdard School of Engineering science and Technology | 1989 |
| 46 | Government College of Engineering, Bargur | 1994 |
| 47 | VNR Vignana Jyothi Institute of Engineering and Technology | 1995 |
| 48 | University Institute of Engineering and Technology | 1996 |
| 49 | Sreenidhi institute of science and technology | 1998 |
| 50 | Government Engineering College, Sreekrishnapuram | 1999 |
| 51 | University School of Chemical Technology | 1999 |
| 52 | Maharaja Surajmal Institute of Technology | 1999 |
| 53 | Guru Tegh Bahadur Institute of Technology | 1999 |
| 54 | University School of Information Technology | 1999 |
| 55 | Ansal Institute of Technology | 2000 |
| 56 | Ambedkar Institute of Technology | 2001 |
| 57 | National Institute of Electronics & Information Technology, Calicut | 2002 |
| 58 | HMR Institute of Technology & Management | 2002 |
| 59 | Pranveer Singh Institute of Technology | 2004 |
| 60 | Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, Trivandrum | 2007 |
| 61 | Government Engineering College, Hassan | 2007 |
| 62 | ACE Engineering College | 2007 |
| 63 | Rajiv Gandhi University of Knowledge Technologies | 2008 |
| 64 | Gandhi Institute of Technology and Management | 2008 |
| 65 | National Institute of Technology, Delhi | 2010 |
| 66 | School of Engineering and Technology, Vikram University, Ujjain | 2011 |
| 67 | Engineering College, Nowgong | 2013 |
| 68 | Indian Institute of Technology Palakkad | 2015 |
| 69 | Indian Institute of Information Technology Kottayam | 2015 |
| 70 | University Institute of Technology, RGPV, Shahdol | 2015 |
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