By TN Education Desk
The admissions in IITs, IIITs, NITs are going on, but there will still be some engineering aspirants who would not have scored enough to secure a seat in top government engineering colleges. Such students will have to resort to getting admission in other engineering colleges. However, these engineering colleges can often be more financially demanding than what is expected. If such is the case, fret not, here are some government or government-funded institutions from where you can pursue your preferred branch of engineering: RANK COLLEGE CITY COURSE FEE (ENTIRE DURATION)* 1 Zakir Husain College of Engineering & Technology Aligarh ₹33,870 2 COEP Technological University Pune ₹1,80,750 3 Govt. Model Engineering College, Kochi Kochi ₹2,15,000 4 Rajkiya Engineering College, Kannauj Kannauj ₹2,22,000 5 Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Rohilkhand University Bareilly ₹3,00,600 6 Delhi Technological University (DTU) New Delhi ₹4,50,000 7 Madan Mohan Malaviya University of Technology Gorakhpur ₹5,26,000 8 Harcourt Butler Technical University Kanpur ₹5,40,000 9 National Institute of Technology (NIT) Puducherry Karaikal ₹5,44,550 10 National Institute of Technology (NIT) Srinagar Srinagar ₹5,84,000 Located in Aligarh Muslim University, Zakir Husain College of Engineering & Technology (ZHCET) was established in 1935 as a constituent college of the Aligarh Muslim University. It has 11 departments of studies — Civil, Electrical and Mechanical Departments are offering BTech/BE (Evening)/MTech and PhD programmes. Electronics, Computer, Chemical & Petroleum Studies are offering BTech/MTech and PhD programmes. The Department of Architecture is offering BArch. The remaining three Departments (Applied Physics, Applied Chemistry and Applied Mathematics) are support Departments offering MTech/MPhil/PhD programmes. Pune’s COEP Technological University is a public university of the Government of Maharashtra. Established in 1854, it is the third oldest engineering institute in India. The institute ranked 73rd in the engineering category of NIRF 2023, and 151-200 band overall. Govt. Model Engineering College, Kochi (MEC) is a government cost-sharing technical institute and research centre in Thrikkakara. It was established in 1989 by the Institute of Human Resources Development, and is affiliated to the APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University (KTU) since 2015.