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Best Civil Engineering Colleges in the World

January 11th, 2012

There are many top-class civil engineering colleges around the world, providing the best of education and technical training required to excel in the field of engineering. Students from all over the world come to these collages to get the best of education and on-site training.

To start with, students can enroll in MIT or the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Regarded as one of the best engineering colleges in the world, MIT offers a bachelor’s degree program in engineering. Over the course of time, students can choose specialties such as geotechnical, hydraulics,: architectural, etc as per their interest and liking.

University of California is another very good college for tomorrow’s civil. Located in Berkeley, USA, the University of California’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering has always ranked top among the world’s top engineering colleges. The college has graduate as well as undergraduate levels, and covers all major aspect of study.

Students can even select the University of Illinois to study civil. It has a world-class Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering, where students can take admission to attain a bachelor’s degree, master’s degree or for a doctoral degree in engineering.

Among the best engineering colleges in the world, mention should be made of the University of Texas situated in Austin, the capital city of Texas. This University has one of the oldest (about 100 years) Architectural and Environmental Engineering Department, offering both undergraduate and graduate levels of study. Faculty is a best of its kind, and the institute has a great campus life, with world-class recreation facilities.

Students can also take admission in the Georgia Institute of Technology undergraduate, graduate programs in engineering. The institution provides scope for first-rated research, with different engineering areas of specialization.

India has some of the best engineering colleges for students to take admission. There is IIT Kanpur, which is located in the Indian State of Uttar Pradesh. Students can do a 4-year B. Tech. and M. Tech in engineering from IIT Kanpur. There is also the option of earning a Ph.D degree in civil from this institute.

IIT Roorkee is one of the top-class civil colleges in India, with first-class faculty and campus life. At IIT Roorkee, each year covers 2 semesters and teaching programs are arranged accordingly. The institute has hired some of the best teachers in the civil field. Students get to know all about the basic concepts to necessary field training on engineering. Students are also encouraged to participate in the seminars, dissertations and submit projects to know their subject well.

Other best civil colleges in India are IIT Bombay, IIT Delhi, Birla Institute of Technology and Science and IIT Madras.

The author of this article has expertise in Civil engineering. The articles on civil engineering reveals the author’s knowledge on the same. The author has written many articles on civil engineering as well.

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California Institute of Technology Displaces Harvard As Top Institution: World and Regional Rankings

September 22nd, 2011

As is well known, ranking higher education institutions involves so much criteria and data, and even subjectivity and generalization. Ranking therefore is never an exact science; strengths and weaknesses of the colleges are never static, just as are aspects like availability and use of research funding, upgrading, qualities of instructors. Many colleges are slow at revolutionizing their curriculums, while others are rapidly innovative and easily embrace change.

This year, for the first time in a very long time, I recently perused some of the rankings of the universities all over the world. My impetus lies in the newsflash that California Institute of Technology, a powerhouse in Pasadena that is therefore not far-fetched from where I live, has become ranked in Forbes magazine as the top research university in the world. California very much remains a flagship state, despite the economic woes and the “spoiled brat” image of Californians. There is a latent, sometimes blatant “East Coast-West Coast” rivalry among Americans, that the displacement of Harvard by “Caltech” as the leading academic institution in the world is cause for Californians to roar it into the wild.

When I was at Texas’ Baylor University in Waco, I marveled at the young Caltech graduate student from India who visited to witness the wedding of his sister Nivedita Sahu who was a classmate. Undoubtedly, he was a very brilliant and affable fellow. As I left Waco for Los Angeles, the director of the Department of Environmental Studies, a top national atmospheric physicist who additionally had a graduate degree in music, Dr. W. Merle Alexander told me that he routinely visited the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena at least once a year. Professor Alexander was to teach at Baylor for thirty years and was a long-term member of the Waco Symphony Orchestra whereby he played the french horn. Long before I knew about Californian genius Steve Jobs, Baylor had introduced me to directly facing and interacting with the computer world, in the dense network of Apple Macintosh computers all over the campus.

I took interest in the “Times Higher Education” World University rankings which were established in collaboration with a data provider generated by the same agency, with Thomas Reuters, and with expert information from over fifty leading persons in the field from fifteen nations across each of the continents. “Times Higher Education” regards itself as the golden yardstick in the field in the area of university performance comparison. Among the factors considered and weighed in ranking the universities were innovation, citations generated, volume and reputation of the researching, the teaching-learning environment, and the international outlook of the institutions. The institutions were ranked universally, and by region.

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