Top 10 Private Universities in India

In the country's higher education system both public and private universities are included. Both offer various courses and quality education. As per the reports of 6 August 2021, there are 388 private UGC registered universities in India. These universities are regulated by UGC and play a crucial role in building valuable human assets.

List of Top 10 Private Universities in India

As per the 2021 list of the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF), the top 10 private universities in India are as follows:

1. Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore

Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham is a private deemed university located in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. The university was established in 1994. It is affiliated with UGC and AICTE and accredited with NAAC. In the NIRF list of 2021, the university got the 5^th rank with a total score of 61.23/100. In 2019, UGC honored the university with the status of Institutes of Eminence. The official website of the university is www.amrita.edu.

Courses, Fees, and Median Salary

The details about some of the popular courses offered by the university are given below:

Infrastructure/Facilities

Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham has an infrastructural rating of 4.1/5 stars. The university offers various facilities to its students which include a library, hostel, sports complex, labs, gym, convenience store, medical facility, cafeteria, auditorium, banks, ATM, guest house, etc.

Faculty Rating

The university has an overall faculty rating of 4.1/5 stars.

Placements

In 2020, the largest domain was engineering. Some of the major recruiters of the year are Amazon, Zoho, Deloitte, Federal Bank, Naukri, Asian Paints, Infosys, Intel, IBM, Wipro, Tata Consultancy Services, Cerner, Bosch, Cognizant, Accenture, UST Global, etc.

Notable Alumni

Some of the notable alumni of the university include Madan Gowri, Sanoj Renjinold, Lijomol Jose, RJ Balaji, Suneesh Pv, PK Krishnan Namboori, Vivek Menon, Shayeri Biswas, K I Ramachandran, Jayaraj Poroor, and others.

2. Manipal University - Manipal Academy of Higher Education

Manipal University is a private deemed university located in Manipal, Karnataka. The university was established in 1953 by T. M. A. Pai. It is affiliated with UGC, ACU, PCI, and AIU. Manipal University is accredited with NAAC. In the NIRF list of 2021, the university reserved the 7^th rank with a total score of 60.58/100. The official website of the university is www.manipal.edu.

Courses, Fees, and Median Salary

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Infrastructure/Facilities

Manipal University has an infrastructural rating of 4.7/5 stars. The university provides various facilities to maintain this rating. These facilities are library, in-campus hostel, sports complex, gym, labs, convenience store, A/C classrooms, music room, auditorium, moot court, Wi-Fi campus, hospital, shuttle service, cafeteria, bank, ATM, digital classrooms, etc.

Faculty Rating

The overall faculty rating of the university is 4/5 stars.

Placements

Biomedical, pharmaceuticals, engineering, and management are the domains that offered the highest placements in 2020. Some of the major recruiters of the year include ITC, Microsoft, Dell, Amazon, E&Y, My Gate, Cisco, Accenture, SAP Labs, HDFC Bank, Federal Bank, Pinclick, Apollo Munich, Western Digital, Deloitte, Infosys, Thomson Reuters, Reliance, Nucleus Software, etc.

Notable Alumni

Some of the notable alumni of the university are Satya Nadella, T.M.A. Pai, Nithya Menen, Vikas Khanna, Ashwin Nag, Ricky Franklin, Srinivas Mutalik, Esha Gupta, Rajeev Suri, Parvati Nair, Devi Shetty, Rajeev Chandrasekhar, and others.

3. VIT Vellore - Vellore Institute of Technology

VIT Vellore is a private deemed university located in Vellore, Tamil Nadu. The university was established in 1984 by G. Viswanathan. It is affiliated with UGC and accredited with NAAC, NBA, ABET, ACBSP, and ACCA. In the NIRF list of 2021, the university got the 13^th rank with a total score of 56.63/100. The official website of the university is www.vit.ac.in.

Courses, Fees, and Median Salary

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Infrastructure/Facilities

The infrastructural rating of VIT Vellore is 4.6/5 stars. The various facilities provided by the university are library, cafeteria, hostel, hostel, sports complex, shuttle service, gym, labs, hospital, auditorium, conference hall, guest house, convenience store, research centers, seminar hall, book store, post office, counseling hall, discussion room, etc.

Faculty Rating

The overall faculty rating of the university is 4/5 stars.

Placements

In 2020, the highest number of placements was offered in the IT sector. Some of the major recruiters of the year were Microsoft, Wipro, Tata Motors, HP, Morgan Stanley, Qualcomm, Ashok Leyland, Intel, Hitachi, Honda, eBay, DE Shaw & Co., Dell, Amazon, GE, Texas Instruments, and others.

Notable Alumni

Shubhangi Swaroop, Bindu Madhavi, Dhyan Sreenivasan, Papias Malimba Musafiri, Ayush Sabat, Arul N S, Induja Ravichandran, Kaveri Priyam, Vishnu Dileep, Sohil Nanda, Mohan Sai Singamsetti, etc. are some of the famous alumni of the university.

4. BITS Pilani - Birla Institute of Technology and Science

BITS Pilani is a private deemed university located in Pilani, Rajasthan. The university was established in 1964. It is affiliated with UGC, PCI, AIU, and ACU. BITS is accredited with NAAC. In the NIRF list of 2021, the university got the 17^th rank with a total score of 54.74/100. The official website of the university is www.bits-pilani.ac.in.

Courses, Fees, and Median Salary

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Infrastructure/Facilities

The overall infrastructural rating of BITS is 4.5/5 stars. The university is well known for its various services like library, separate hostel for boys and girls, sports complex, labs, Wi-Fi campus, gym, A/C classrooms, medical facility, digital classrooms, auditorium, etc.

Faculty Rating

The overall faculty rating of the university is 4.1/5 stars.

Placements

In 2020, the highest placement was offered in engineering followed by information technology and business development sectors. Some of the major recruiters of the year were Toyota, KPMG, Accenture, SBI, LinkedIn, Google, HSBC, Microsoft, RBL, HUL, Adobe, TCS, UCO Bank, Oracle India, FMC, Bharti Airtel, Facebook, Bank of America, Maruti Suzuki, Commvault Systems, etc.

Notable Alumni

Some of the notable alumni of the university are Prithviraj Chavan, Baba Kalyani, Sabeer Bhatia, Vivek Paul, S. K. Roongta, Sanjay Mehrotra, S. P. Kothari, Milind Tambe, Anu Hasan, Goverdhan Mehta, Rakesh Kapoor, and others.

5. Siksha 'O' Anusandhan, Bhubaneswar

SOA is a private deemed university in Bhubaneswar, Odisha. It was founded in 1995 by Manojranjan Nayak. SOA is affiliated with UGC, AICTE, BCI, DCI, PCI, NMC, INC, and ICAR. It is accredited with NAAC and NBA. In the NIRF list of 2021, the university got the 20^th rank with a total score of 52.34/100. The official website of the university is www.sao.ac.in.

Courses, Fees, and Median Salary

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Infrastructure/Facilities

Siksha 'O' Anusandhan has an infrastructural rating of 4.3/5 stars. The university provides several facilities to its students which include a sports complex, hostel, design studio, auditorium, labs, library, cafeteria, medical facility, A/C classrooms, gym, etc.

Faculty Rating

The university has an overall faculty rating of 4.2/5 stars.

Placements

Some of the major recruiters of 2021 are Dell Technologies, Accor hotels, Cognizant, HP, Hilton, ADP, Infosys, Nestle, OYO, Asian Paints, Tech Mahindra, Wipro, Informatica, Hettich, HCL, Collabera, Coforge, Black Knight, Deloitte, CGI, Bosch, Atmecs, Amazon, Mahindra, Mindtree, Reliance Industries Ltd., and others.

Notable Alumni

Some of the prominent alumni of the university include Chandrani Murmu, Mahesh C Sahu, Minakhi Rout, etc.

6. KIIT University - Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology

KIIT University is a private deemed university located in Bhubaneswar, Odisha. It was established in 1992 by Achyuta Samanta. KIIT is affiliated with UGC and accredited with NAAC and ACU. In the NIRF list of 2021, the university got the 21^st rank with a total score of 52.06/100. The official website of the university is www.kiit.ac.in.

Courses, Fees, and Median Salary

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Infrastructure/Facilities

The overall infrastructural rating of KIIT is 4.7/5 stars. Various facilities that are provided by the university to its students include a library, cafeteria, hostel, sports complex, labs, moot court, Wi-Fi campus, convenience store, shuttle service, auditorium, gym, design studio, medical facilities, A/C classrooms, conference and banquet halls, open-air theatres, convention center, guest house, post office, banks, ATMs, animal houses, etc.

Faculty Rating

The university has an overall faculty of 4.1/5 stars.

Placements

Some of the major recruiters of 2019 were Amazon, Wipro, Dell, TVS, Infosys, Quikr, Hyundai, Deloitte, SAP, Novartis, Microsoft, DBS, ZS, Directi, Endurance, Adobe, Cognizant, DBS, Accenture, and others.

Notable Alumni

Archita Sahu, Dutee Chand, Babushaan Mohanty, Amiya Kumar Mallika, Arbinda Mahanty, Gopinath Danda, Debapritam Purkaystha, Soumyadeep Bhattacharya, Sayantan Sinha, etc. are some of the famous alumni of the university.

7. SASTRA University Thanjavur - Shanmugha Arts Science Technology Research and Academy

SASTRA University is a private deemed university located in Thirumalaisamudram, Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, and was established in 1984. It is affiliated with UGC. In the NIRF list of 2021, the university got the 22^nd rank with a total score of 51.83/100. The official website of the university is www.sastra.edu.

Courses, Fees, and Median Salary

The details about some of the popular courses offered by the university are given below:

Infrastructure/Facilities

The overall infrastructural rating of SASTRA is 4.2/5 stars. The university provides the facilities of library, hostel, sports complex, labs, cafeteria, convenience store, hospital, Wi-Fi campus, gym, moot court, auditorium, shuttle service, bank, seminar hall, senate hall, guest house, post office, etc. to its students.

Faculty Rating

The overall faculty rating of the university is 4.1/5 stars.

Placements

The most popular domain of 2020 was education followed by research. Some of the major recruiters of the year were Hindustan Uniliver Ltd., TVS, Accenture, Idea, Oracle, ICICI Bank, CITI, Maruti Suzuki, Standard Chartered, KLA Tencor, Sterlite Technologies, Cognizant, TCS, Microsoft, Cisco, Coreel Technologies, and others.

Notable Alumni

Some of the eminent alumni of the university are Girish Mathrubotham, Karunakaran, Vivek Athreya, Arunkumar Seshadri, Akshaya Chandrasekaran, Gowtham Sathyanarayanan, Jayapradha Ramakrishnan, Ganesh Kumar Mani, Gunaseelan Dhanarajan, Kabil Sakthivel, Raeece Naeem, etc.

8. Amity University, Noida

Amity University is a private research university located in Noida, Uttar Pradesh. It was established in 2005 by Ashok Chauhan. Amity is affiliated with UGC, AIU, ACU, and WASC. It is accredited with NAAC, IET, BCI, DEB, ACBSP, and WSCUC. In the NIRF list of 2021, the university got the 25^th rank with a total score of 50.9/100. The official website of the university is www.amity.edu.

Courses, Fees, and Median Salary

The details about some of the popular courses offered by the university are given below:

Infrastructure/Facilities

Amity has an infrastructural rating of 4.5/5 stars. Various facilities offered by the university to its students are library, cafeteria, hostel, sports complex, labs, gym, moot court, Wi-Fi campus, music room, shuttle service, medical facilities, dance room, auditorium, design studio, A/C classroom, convenience store, etc.

Faculty Rating

The university has an overall faculty rating of 4/5 stars.

Placements

In 2021, the largest domain was business development followed by sales. Some of the major recruiters are Google, Cisco, Reliance, Deloitte, Birlasoft, Cognizant, Goldman Sachs, TCS, L&T Infotech, SAP Labs, VMWare, Optum, Capgemini, Hexaware, DXC Technology, Accenture, Ernst & Young, Tech Mahindra, Microsoft, Genpact, IBM, Amazon, American Express, HCL Technologies, EY, Wipro, etc.

Notable Alumni

Some of the famous alumni of the university are Himansh Kohli, Kunal Khemu, Amisha Sethi, Harshita Gaur, Kratika Sengar, Pankaj Singh, Kulpreet Yadav, Disha Patani, Zain Imam, Akshay Yadav, Urfi Javed, Rahul Ahuja, Ajay Dutt, Rajisha Vijayan, and others.

9. Thapar University - Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology

TIET is a private deemed university that was established in Patiala, Punjab in 1956 by Karam Chand Thapar. It is affiliated with UGC. In the NIRF list of 2021, the university got the 26^th rank with a total score of 50.65/100. The official website of the university is www.thapar.edu.

Courses, Fees, and Median Salary

The details about some of the popular courses offered by the university are given below:

Infrastructure/Facilities

Thapar has an infrastructural rating of 4.5/5 stars. The University provides various facilities to its students like library, hostel, sports complex, labs, cafeteria, hospital, auditorium, gym, Wi-Fi campus, convenience store, post office, banking facility, laundry, waiting lounge, seminar halls, open-air theatre, courier booth, restaurants, meeting rooms, etc.

Faculty Rating

The university has an overall faculty rating of 3.8/5 stars.

Placements

In 2020, the largest domain was engineering followed by business development and operations sectors respectively. Some of the major recruiters of the year included JP Morgan, Accenture, Samsung, Wipro, KPMG, Havells, Indian Oil, Asian Paints, Cognizant, Bosch, CapGemini, Texas Instruments, Tata, Reliance Industries Ltd., LT, JSW Steel Ltd., Siemens, Vedanta, Samsung Engineering, Tata Consultancy Services, Schnieder Electric, etc.

Notable Alumni

Some of the prominent alumni of the university include Robin Rana, Anoop Kumar Mittal, Deepak Vinayak, Asra Garg, Henna Singal, Aditi Avasthi, Ashutosh S Singh, Gagandeep Reehal, Vikram Sethi, Navdeep Kaur Dhami, Shwait Malik, Anoop Kumar Verma, etc.

10. SIMATS Chennai - Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences

SIMATS is a private deemed university that was established in 2005 in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. It is affiliated with National Medical Commission and has accreditation with NAAC. In the NIRF list of 2021, the university got the 29^th rank with a total score of 50.36/100. The official website of the university is www.saveetha.com.

Courses, Fees, and Median Salary

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Infrastructure/Facilities

The infrastructural rating of SIMATS is 4.2/5 stars. The University provides the facilities of library, separate hostel for boys and girls, sports complex, labs, moot court, auditorium, A/C classrooms, shuttle service, medical facilities, Wi-Fi campus, gym, cafeteria, art studio, theatre, etc.

Faculty Rating

The university has an overall faculty rating of 4.2/5 stars.

Placements

In 2020, the largest domain was engineering. Some of the major recruiters of the year are Amazon, Infosys, IBM, Wipro, Apollo Hospitals, Cognizant, Tech Mahindra, HCL, CapGemini, Tata Consultancy Services, Airtel, Ashok Leyland, axis bank, Flipkart, Forbes India, Cisco System, TCS, etc.