Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology (Deemed-to-be-university)

Patiala's Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, a deemed-to-be-university, teaches 11,078 students with a faculty of 788. In NIRF 2025, it placed #44 in the Overall category (score 56.21/100), #29 in Engineering (60.97/100), and #46 in Management (54.40/100) -- a spread that points to engineering as its strongest suit, with management a step behind.

Placement records back this up. In 2023-24, the four-year Engineering UG programme graduated 2,082 students with 1,708 placed and a median salary of 10 LPA; the year before, 2,259 graduated with 1,962 placed at a median of 11.89 LPA. The two-year Engineering PG cohort of 2023-24 saw 183 graduate and 125 placed, at a median of 10.5 LPA.

On the management side, the 2023-24 PG batch had 196 graduates and 164 placed, with a median salary of 7.86 LPA, up from 6.56 LPA in 2022-23 and 6.5 LPA in 2021-22. Placement rates across programmes have stayed consistently above two-thirds in recent years, giving a sense of how reliably graduating classes have found jobs.