Top 7 Engineering Courses In India You Must Know
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Thursday, 04 August 2016
Along with best engineering colleges, best engineering courses also admires students. Even though, all engineering courses are almost of equal level and will help the student to get the best package and ample career opportunities in the future, but still students are always confused to select the best for them.
As per career aspects, all branches of engineering are same, and candidates should select the one in which they have more interest, after all, at the end of every scenario, they have to study and need to put efforts to score good marks. Now, another major aspect comes when students have to select between college and course. And, it is a bit difficult question and a choice to be made. Thus, to make it easy and feasible for a student, here we are listing the top 7 engineering courses for which the student can opt for.
1.  Computer Engineering: It is the leading course in India, as it offers higher pay packages with ample number of career opportunities for students. In this course, students will learn all about computers, its applications, database management, computer programming, developing software, computer equipments and accessories, etc.
Computer engineering basically has two specializations: software and hardware. Software specialization will be all regarding computer applications and programs whereas hardware specialization includes computer parts or equipments.
The average pay packages for this course begin with RS. 4 lakh and can go up to billions. The best colleges for this course are mainly IIT Kanpur, IIT Hyderabad, DTU, BITS Pilani, and NIT Warangal.
2. Electrical Engineering: Being an evergreen field, this has become the second favorite choice of most engineering students. This course helps the students to learn about electrical gadgets, instruments, electrical circuit, and all about electricity generation and power, electric circuits, communication equipments and a lot more regarding electricity.
Pursuing B.Tech degree in this course, will lead the student to get placed with a minimum package of Rs. 4 Lakh and above. IIT Chennai, NIT Thiruchirappalli and BITS Pilani are regarded as the best college in this field.
3. Mechanical Engineering: If students want to learn about designing, analyzing, manufacturing of any moving thing, they have to pursue this course. This field will not only give great opportunities to students, but will also make them to learn basic principles of Physics and Material Science.
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With Rs. 1.3 lakh amount, the salary range starts here, which will get higher as per the rise in the hike. IIT Kanpur, Delhi Technological University and BITS Pilani are the best colleges in India for this course.
4. Chemical Engineering: By creating chemical engineers more in demand, chemical engineering has become one of the excited fields nowadays. It will cover the topics like Biotechnology, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, energy, etc. 
This field provides a number of research and development opportunities with a salary range of 5 lakh and above. IIT Kanpur, IIT Mumbai, BITS Pilani and Delhi Technological University are the best colleges in this field.
5. Civil Engineering: with the concept of science of construction, this field will help the student to learn the concepts of building roads, bridges, dams, seaports, airports, and canals etc. This field is the most challenging and tougher field, but satisfying too.
The civil engineer can get a salary range from 2 lakh per annum and above, with the gain of experience in this field. To pursue this field, IIT Kanpur, SVNIT Surat, Anna University, Chennai and  ISM Dhanbad are termed as best colleges.
6. Biotechnology Engineering: this field provides career opportunities for students in both government and corporate sectors. It mainly involves the principles of biosciences, energy, and conversation, medicine and healthcare products, etc. Students who studied in this field will have a good scope as a professor and as a research assistant in research laboratories.
The pay package in this field mainly starts from 2 Lakh, which may go higher with experience and time. IIT Kharagpur, IIT Roorkee, BIT Mesra, and DTI are the best colleges in India to pursue Biotechnology Engineering.
7. Marine Engineering: Students, who have an eager to do something creative regarding water body, mainly opt for this specialization in engineering. Under this field, the vehicles and structures that are related to water surface and under water is tested, designed and manufactured., for examples, ships, submarines, military vessels, and many more.
Marine Engineers get the starting package from 1 lakh and higher above with a raise in the hike. The best colleges to study this course are IIT Kharagpur, Andhra University College of Engineering and IIT Madras.
Apart from the above stated engineering courses, pursuing B.Tech in the field of Automotive Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, and Nuclear Engineering will also provide a wide and good scope for career opportunities to the students with good pay packages.