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| [http://www.iisc.ernet.in/ IISc] BangaloreBest research institute in India. Inter-departmental courses are allowed here. Since, bachelors are not there in Engineering, Masters students are not required to do any teaching assistantship. But they get Rs. 8000 stipend from MHRD.
| [http://www.csa.iisc.ernet.in/academics/academics-degrees-me.php ME] in [http://www.csa.iisc.ernet.in/ CSA] dept.(2 years)
| 50-80(60 seats)
| CSA is the Computer Science dept. of IISc
| Best for pursuing higher studies abroad. The on campus placement facilities weren’t great but most students get the best placements both through on campus as well as off campus hiring. MS, IBM-IRL, etc comes for on campus and FB, Google etc usually recruits through off campus.
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| ME in SSA
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| M Tech in SERC
| Gate cutoff around 600 rank for interviews.
| SERC dept is working on supercomputing area. Mathematical skills are required for parallel programming courses. [https://www.facebook.com/groups/Top100Gate2014/permalink/681832225206196/ More info]
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| [http://www.csa.iisc.ernet.in/academics/academics-degrees-mscengg.php MSc]  in [http://www.csa.iisc.ernet.in/ CSA] dept.
| Gate cutoff around 1000 rank for interviews(15-20 seats)
| MSc is more into research. While ME students have to take 10 courses, MSc students need only 3 courses but they have a strict publication requirement. Most students take 2-3 years to complete
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| ME in DESE dept
| Gate cutoff around 1000 for interviews
| Mostly taken by Electronic students, but due to the presence of microcontrollers, some CS students also prefer this
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| [http://www.csa.iisc.ernet.in/academics/academics-degrees-phd.php Direct PhD]
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| [https://www.iitb.ac.in/ IITB]
For those looking for placements IIT-B might be better than IISc. ( Hence IIT B - M Tech and IISc - ME are usually filled simultaneously)
| M Tech in CSE (2 years TA)
| 100
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| M Tech in CSE (3 years RA)
| Gate cutoff around 1000 for interviews
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| [http://www.tifr.res.in/ TIFR]
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| [http://www.iitk.ac.in/ IITK]
| M tech in CSE (2 Years)
| 70 seats Direct admission - under 100 rank, Upto rank 400 for Written and interview for general category
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| [http://www.iitm.ac.in/ IITM]
| M tech in CSE (2 Years)
| 150-170(54 seats)
| Good placement.
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| MS
| 20 seats (2-3 years)
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| [http://www.iitd.ac.in/ IITD]
| MTech
| 56 seats, direct admission last rank around 100. After interview last rank was around 220
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| MS
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| Prefer Experience candidates (same for research position in other IITs, profs prefer experience in relevant area)
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| [http://www.cmi.ac.in/ CMI]
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| [http://www.iitkgp.ac.in/ IITKgp]
| M.Tech in CSE
| 40 seats. Last rank around 180
| Option to convert to PhD as in other IITs/ IISc
| 100% placements in 2011,12,13 (data unavailable for 2014). Alumni now at Google, FB, MS, MSR, Amazon, Epic, Walmart Labs, SAP.Scope for PhD too. Admits to Purdue, UIUC, MPI-SWS, Aarhus , state universities of USA etc . [http://www.facweb.iitkgp.ernet.in/~niloy/studentscorner/index_files/Page348.htm More info]
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| M.S in CSE
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| Strong areas: Cryptography, Number Theory, Complex Networks, Formal Methods, ML (NLP in particular), Theoretical Distributed Systems (Prof. A Gupta), Computer Graphics, S/W Engg, Real Time systems ( Prof Rajib Mall )
| Mostly PhD. Admits to Oxford, UIUC etc.There have been students placed in Amazon etc too.If you want to do MS in KGP CS , this [http://gate0000.wordpress.com/2012/03/29/iit-kgp-msphd-some-points-to-remember/ blog post] will help you :
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| M.Tech in Embedded System Design
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| New course, well suited for embedded systems area. Admits ECE, EEE, CSE graduates.
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| [http://www.iitg.ac.in/ IITG]
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| [http://www.iitr.ac.in/ IITR]
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| [http://www.iiitd.ac.in/ IIIT-D]
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| On the Basis of gate score now.
| Good college, faculty is good, A dynamic director . Placement is ok , it will good in future
| Here is the blog from the Director , please go through it, you will Learn many things related to academics →[http://jalotxe.wordpress.com/ More Info]
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| [http://www.iiit.ac.in/ IIIT-H]
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| Own Entrance test
| good in research. Faculty is good. Placement too.
| a good [https://www.facebook.com/groups/202190299804394/ group] exists in FB with IIITH seniors and their experience :
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| [http://iiitb.in/ IIIT-B]
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| own entrance test
| good college in placement and teaching
[http://www.techbite.in/search/label/IIIT-B Interview experience]
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| MS in CS and ECE
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| for industry candidates and experience ones
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| [http://www.nitk.ac.in/ NIT-K] Surathkal
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| good for placement.
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| [http://www.nitt.edu/ NIT-Trichy]
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| good for placement.
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| [http://www.jnu.ac.in/ JNU]
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| [http://www.iith.ac.in/ IITH]
| Regular M tech and M Tech (RA) available
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| Good placement
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| [http://www.iiita.ac.in/ IIIT-Allahabad]
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| Through Central Counselling of NIT’s
| [http://www.techbite.in/2010/06/iiit-allahabad-mtech-selection-process.html Interview experience]
| Placement track record of the institute is disastrous so if you are coming for job...IIITA will be a bad option . …. the R&D activities in IIIT-A is too good....the number of journals which gets published every year is strikingly high . Good hope from the next session placement as of TPO changed
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| [http://www.nitc.ac.in/ NITC]
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| good for academics and placement.
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| [http://www.bits-pilani.ac.in/ BITS Pilani]
| M.E,C.S & M.E Software.Systems
| Admission through [http://bitsadmission.com/hd/hdmain.htm BITSAT]
| Good faculty along with good placement.
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| [http://www.bits-goa.ac.in/ BITS Goa]
| M.E Software Systems
| Admission through [http://bitsadmission.com/hd/hdmain.htm BITSAT]
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| [http://www.bits-pilani.ac.in/hyderabad/ BITS Hyderabad]
| M.E C.S
| Admission through [http://bitsadmission.com/hd/hdmain.htm BITSAT]
| placement is ok
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| [http://www.vit.ac.in/ VIT]
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| [http://www.vit.ac.in/Admissions/MTech_mca.asp VIT Entrance Test]
| All money made stuffs done here . Do not believe in their Rankings in reputed newspapers
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| [http://www.iiitmk.ac.in/ IIITMK]
| MSc IT
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| It is run by Kerala govt but fee is 50k per semester. Research facilities are very good here. Scholarships are available for SC/ST.
| Good guys can expect good research opportunities as many faculties are extremely good. But if you are not keen in research, job opportunities might not be great. (only IT jobs)
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| colspan="6" | The below colleges are reputed but not from a MTech point of view. Those who are good can get decent placements. Here for placements mainly Service based companies come. If you are extremely bright you can expect a good placement in a product company.
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| [http://www.annauniv.edu/ CEG Guindy]
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| [http://cet.ac.in/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=122:department-of-computer-science-and-engineering&catid=26:departments&Itemid=131 CET Trivandrum]
| M Tech (2 years)
| around 3000
| Govt college with 8k scholarship
| This is the best college in Kerala after NIT-C. Placements here are just below that of NITs. Though research or teaching isn’t great, due to the high talent students Amazon, MS etc usually come for placements but they select only the top guys.
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| [http://www.thapar.edu/ Thapar University]
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| [http://iter.ac.in/ ITER(SOA University)]
| provide M Tech in CSE, CSDP and CSIT ,three sections in school of Computer science.
| 60 seats. own exam +Gate score
| Gate score holders get,5,000 from 2nd year of their M Tech.
| They are good in academics in Orissa, trying to improve.
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| [http://www.cusat.ac.in/ CUSAT]
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| [http://www.pec.ac.in/ PEC]
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| [http://desindia.in/ DIMAT Raipur]
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| [http://www.vssut.ac.in/ VSSUT Burla]
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| Good college in Orissa for academics.
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| [http://www.nitie.edu/ NITIE]
| PGDIE, PGDMM, PGDPM
| GATE Score + Interview
| Management degree through Gate score
| Average Package (2012): 11.83 Lakhs per annum .ONLINE APPLICATION PORTAL HAS BEEN PUT ON THE [http://www.nitie.edu/applyonline_ie_mm_pm/index.php WEBSITE] For complete details about the Institution and Programs offered, please refer [http://www.nitie.edu/applyonline_ie_mm_pm/BROCHURE.pdf Admission Brochure-2014] [http://www.nitie.edu/MANDATORY%20DISCLOSURES-2012.pdf More Info]
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| [https://iitbhu.ac.in/ IIT-BHU]
| Systems Science under Electrical department.
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| [http://www.mnnit.ac.in/ Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad]
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| [http://www.jaduniv.edu.in/ Jadavpur University]
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| Number one Engineering college in WB. Talented students join here because of High Competition ( for B tech mainly ).
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| [http://www.becs.ac.in/ IIEST Shibpur]
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| Good student , good faculty. Now as being IIEST, they,will improve their research quality.
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| [http://www.daiict.ac.in/ DAIICT]
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| Good for ICT course
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| [http://www.vnit.ac.in/ VNIT Nagpur]
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| Good in Academics
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| [http://www.uohyd.ac.in/ HCU ( University of Hyderabad )]
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| Good in Academics. , some,professors also doing research here.
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| [http://www.isical.ac.in/ ISI KOLKATA]
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| accept Gate score with cut off,those not having Gate score for them conduct own exam and interview
| Areas where professors working :Computational Intelligence. Soft computing techniques, data mining,cryptography ,machine learning, complexity theory , computer vision etc areas related to mathematics.
| [http://www.quora.com/Indian-Statistical-Institute/How-does-one-get-admitted-into-ISI/answer/Bipul-Islam?share=1 More Info]
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==Bibliography==

*some information about different institutes tml
http://ramanclasses.org/accepting_GATE.sh
 *If you want to know about Research areas of different IITs, this post may help you http://gate0000.wordpress.com/2012/05/27/research-areas-of-computer-science-in-different-iit/
* https://www.facebook.com/groups/core.cs/permalink/443481272350798/Few information about top colleges in India By Arvind Devaraj . 
* How to choose an engineering college other than IIT → an IIT Kanpur professor view http://dsanghi.blogspot.in/2009/08/how-to-choose-engineering-college.htmlsome college list from the same → http://dsanghi.blogspot.in/2011/05/my-2011-list-of-recommeThended-csit.html
* http://t5e.iitm.ac.in/2012/11/applying-abroad-for-msphd-faqs/
*GATE score is accepted in many other places also. The below link shows the acceptance of GATE score in IIM-A. Similarly GATE score is accepted in many foreign universities including NUS and some German universities. http://www.iimahd.ernet.in/programmes/fpm/how-to-apply/eligibility-criteria.html
*Gate score cutoff in NITs,(2013)se.in/gatechttp://gatecse/images/8/87/Ccmt2013-cutoff-list-round2.pdf
*Cutoffs in 2013
http://gatecse.in/wiki/Cut_offs_for_201qs/6.,GATE score is accepted in many other places also. The below link shows the acceptance of GATE score in IIM-A. Similarly GATE score is accepted in many foreign uni3
*GATE Interview Experiences: https://www.facebook.com/notes/gate-interview-experiences/institute-wise-list/122602751281701
*For those below rank 200: https://www.facebook.com/groups/Top100Gate2014/permalink/682257268497025/?stream_ref=2
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[[Category:GATE]]
Index	Institute	Program	Last Rank	Comments	Future Scope
1	IISc BangaloreBest research institute in India. Inter-departmental courses are allowed here. Since, bachelors are not there in Engineering, Masters students are not required to do any teaching assistantship. But they get Rs. 8000 stipend from MHRD.	ME in CSA dept.(2 years)	50-80(60 seats)	CSA is the Computer Science dept. of IISc	Best for pursuing higher studies abroad. The on campus placement facilities weren’t great but most students get the best placements both through on campus as well as off campus hiring. MS, IBM-IRL, etc comes for on campus and FB, Google etc usually recruits through off campus.
		ME in SSA
		M Tech in SERC	Gate cutoff around 600 rank for interviews.	SERC dept is working on supercomputing area. Mathematical skills are required for parallel programming courses. More info
		MSc in CSA dept.	Gate cutoff around 1000 rank for interviews(15-20 seats)	MSc is more into research. While ME students have to take 10 courses, MSc students need only 3 courses but they have a strict publication requirement. Most students take 2-3 years to complete
		ME in DESE dept	Gate cutoff around 1000 for interviews	Mostly taken by Electronic students, but due to the presence of microcontrollers, some CS students also prefer this
		Direct PhD
	IITB For those looking for placements IIT-B might be better than IISc. ( Hence IIT B - M Tech and IISc - ME are usually filled simultaneously)	M Tech in CSE (2 years TA)	100
		M Tech in CSE (3 years RA)	Gate cutoff around 1000 for interviews
	TIFR
	IITK	M tech in CSE (2 Years)	70 seats Direct admission - under 100 rank, Upto rank 400 for Written and interview for general category
	IITM	M tech in CSE (2 Years)	150-170(54 seats)	Good placement.
		MS	20 seats (2-3 years)
	IITD	MTech	56 seats, direct admission last rank around 100. After interview last rank was around 220
		MS		Prefer Experience candidates (same for research position in other IITs, profs prefer experience in relevant area)
	CMI
	IITKgp	M.Tech in CSE	40 seats. Last rank around 180	Option to convert to PhD as in other IITs/ IISc	100% placements in 2011,12,13 (data unavailable for 2014). Alumni now at Google, FB, MS, MSR, Amazon, Epic, Walmart Labs, SAP.Scope for PhD too. Admits to Purdue, UIUC, MPI-SWS, Aarhus , state universities of USA etc . More info
		M.S in CSE		Strong areas: Cryptography, Number Theory, Complex Networks, Formal Methods, ML (NLP in particular), Theoretical Distributed Systems (Prof. A Gupta), Computer Graphics, S/W Engg, Real Time systems ( Prof Rajib Mall )	Mostly PhD. Admits to Oxford, UIUC etc.There have been students placed in Amazon etc too.If you want to do MS in KGP CS , this blog post will help you :
		M.Tech in Embedded System Design		New course, well suited for embedded systems area. Admits ECE, EEE, CSE graduates.
	IITG
	IITR
	IIIT-D		On the Basis of gate score now.	Good college, faculty is good, A dynamic director . Placement is ok , it will good in future	Here is the blog from the Director , please go through it, you will Learn many things related to academics →More Info
	IIIT-H		Own Entrance test	good in research. Faculty is good. Placement too.	a good group exists in FB with IIITH seniors and their experience :
	IIIT-B		own entrance test	good college in placement and teaching Interview experience
		MS in CS and ECE		for industry candidates and experience ones
	NIT-K Surathkal			good for placement.
	NIT-Trichy			good for placement.
	JNU
	IITH	Regular M tech and M Tech (RA) available		Good placement
	IIIT-Allahabad		Through Central Counselling of NIT’s	Interview experience	Placement track record of the institute is disastrous so if you are coming for job...IIITA will be a bad option . …. the R&D activities in IIIT-A is too good....the number of journals which gets published every year is strikingly high . Good hope from the next session placement as of TPO changed
	NITC			good for academics and placement.
	BITS Pilani	M.E,C.S & M.E Software.Systems	Admission through BITSAT	Good faculty along with good placement.
	BITS Goa	M.E Software Systems	Admission through BITSAT
	BITS Hyderabad	M.E C.S	Admission through BITSAT	placement is ok
	VIT		VIT Entrance Test	All money made stuffs done here . Do not believe in their Rankings in reputed newspapers
	IIITMK	MSc IT		It is run by Kerala govt but fee is 50k per semester. Research facilities are very good here. Scholarships are available for SC/ST.	Good guys can expect good research opportunities as many faculties are extremely good. But if you are not keen in research, job opportunities might not be great. (only IT jobs)
		MSc-CS
The below colleges are reputed but not from a MTech point of view. Those who are good can get decent placements. Here for placements mainly Service based companies come. If you are extremely bright you can expect a good placement in a product company.
	CEG Guindy
	CET Trivandrum	M Tech (2 years)	around 3000	Govt college with 8k scholarship	This is the best college in Kerala after NIT-C. Placements here are just below that of NITs. Though research or teaching isn’t great, due to the high talent students Amazon, MS etc usually come for placements but they select only the top guys.
	Thapar University
	ITER(SOA University)	provide M Tech in CSE, CSDP and CSIT ,three sections in school of Computer science.	60 seats. own exam +Gate score	Gate score holders get,5,000 from 2nd year of their M Tech.	They are good in academics in Orissa, trying to improve.
	CUSAT
	PEC
	DIMAT Raipur
	VSSUT Burla		Good college in Orissa for academics.
	NITIE	PGDIE, PGDMM, PGDPM	GATE Score + Interview	Management degree through Gate score	Average Package (2012): 11.83 Lakhs per annum .ONLINE APPLICATION PORTAL HAS BEEN PUT ON THE WEBSITE For complete details about the Institution and Programs offered, please refer Admission Brochure-2014 More Info
	IIT-BHU	Systems Science under Electrical department.
	Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad
	Jadavpur University			Number one Engineering college in WB. Talented students join here because of High Competition ( for B tech mainly ).
	IIEST Shibpur			Good student , good faculty. Now as being IIEST, they,will improve their research quality.
	DAIICT			Good for ICT course
	VNIT Nagpur			Good in Academics
	HCU ( University of Hyderabad )			Good in Academics. , some,professors also doing research here.
	ISI KOLKATA		accept Gate score with cut off,those not having Gate score for them conduct own exam and interview	Areas where professors working :Computational Intelligence. Soft computing techniques, data mining,cryptography ,machine learning, complexity theory , computer vision etc areas related to mathematics.	More Info