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Top Engineering Colleges in Trichy 2025

Engineering is one of the most sought disciplines in India. The top engineering colleges in Trichy offer diploma, undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctorate level courses, such as BE, BTech, MTech, ME, postgraduate diploma, and PhD. Several specialisations available at the engineering colleges are chemical engineering, biochemical engineering, aerospace engineering, electrical engineering, civil engineering, and many more. Students interested in pursuing an engineering course must have passed class 12th in the science stream with a minimum of 60% marks.

For admission to the top engineering colleges in Trichy, students need to appear for common entrance tests like JEE Main and JEE Advanced. Some engineering colleges also conduct admissions based on academic merits. The engineering field offers lucrative job opportunities to students in the private and public sector. After pursuing an engineering degree, candidates can work as chief engineer, professor, researcher, system engineer, project engineer, and many others.

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Engineering Colleges in Tiruchirappalli with NIRF Ranking

Following is a list of some of the top Engineering institutes in Trichy ranked by NIRF over the past three years:

College Name	NIRF 2023	NIRF 2024
National Institute of Technology, (NIT) Tiruchirapalli	9	9

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The best colleges in Trichy for Engineering:

College Names	Average Placement Package	Total Tuition Fee
NIT Trichy	INR 16 LPA	INR 5 lakh
IIIT Trichy	INR 7 LPA – INR 8 LPA	INR 9 lakh
KRCE - K Ramakrishnan College of Engineering	INR 5 LPA	INR 2 lakh
K. Ramakrishnan College of Technology	INR 5 LPA	INR 2 lakh
SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai	INR 4 LPA	INR 4 lakh – INR 8 lakh

Private Engineering Colleges in Tiruchirappalli Exams/Eligibility Criteria & Fee/Seat Intake

The table below shows some of the top private Engineering colleges in Trichy along with their tuition fees/seat intake and accepted entrance exams/eligibility criteria:

Private Colleges	Exams/Eligibility Criteria	Total Tuition Fee/Seat Intake
KRCE - K Ramakrishnan College of Engineering	Exams: TNEA Eligibility: Class 12 with 45% aggregate	INR 2 lakh Seats: 720
K. Ramakrishnan College of Technology	Exams: TNEA Eligibility: Class 12 with 45% aggregate	INR 2 lakh Seats: 720
SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai	Exams: TNEA, JEE Main, SRM JEE, etc. Eligibility: Class 12 with 60% aggregate	INR 4 lakh – INR 8 lakh
SRM TRP Engineering College	Exams: TNEA Eligibility: Class 12 with 45% aggregate	INR 2 lakh Seats: 720
Saranathan College of Engineering	Exams: TNEA Eligibility: Class 12 with 45% aggregate	INR 2 lakh Seats: 720

Government Engineering Colleges in Tiruchirappalli Exams/Eligibility Criteria & Fee/Seat Intake

Government Colleges	Exams/Eligibility Criteria	Fee/Seat Intake
NIT Trichy	Exams: JEE Main, DASA UG, etc. Eligibility: Class 12 with 75% aggregate	INR 5 lakh Seats: 981
Government College of Engineering, Srirangam	Exams: TNEA Eligibility: Class 12 with 45% aggregate	INR 5 lakh Seats: 300
Bharathidasan University, Khajamalai Campus	Merit-based	INR 2 lakh
University College of Engineering, Bharathidasan Institute of Technology	Exams: TNEA Eligibility: Class 12 with 45% aggregate	INR 48,000 Seats: 600
Agricultural Engineering College and Research Institute	Exams: TNEA Eligibility: Class 12 with 50% aggregate	INR 36,000 Seats: 263

Best BTech Colleges in Trichy Offering the Highest Salary Packages

Below is the list of the best colleges in Trichy for Engineering and a few top companies that recruit BTech graduates along with their annual average package:

College Names	Top Recruiters	Average Placement Package
NIT Trichy	Google, Facebook, ITC, Infosys, Oracle, Sony, etc.	INR 16 LPA
KRCE - K Ramakrishnan College of Engineering	TCS, Wipro, Tech Mahindra, Infosys, Amazon, etc.	INR 5 LPA
IIIT Trichy	Tesco, Cerebral Technologies, Publics Sapient, etc.	INR 7 LPA – INR 8 LPA
SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai	Amazon, Digital Logiciel, TVS Motors, Wipro, etc.	INR 4 LPA