ITER ranked second by Times All India Engineering Institutes Ranking Survey 2025


Bhubaneswar: Institute of Technical Education and Research (ITER), faculty of engineering and technology of Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan Deemed to be University (SOA) here, has been ranked second in the country in the Times All India Engineering Institutes Ranking Survey 2025.

The survey conducted by the widely circulated Times of India and published on Thursday ranked 175 engineering institutes in the country through a research comprising three modules—desk research, factual survey and perceptual rating backed by scientifically developed analysis.

ITER was also ranked second in the list of country’s top 125 private engineering institutes in the same survey while it topped the list of such institutes in eastern India.

SOA’s faculty of engineering and technology was placed third in the list of 30 institutes in the country in the realm of research capability while it was ranked fourth in placement.

SOA, which was ranked 14th in the country among universities by the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) in 2024, was reaccredited with A++ by NAAC in 2022 and received Category-I Graded Autonomy by the UGC.