• India has the second largest population of any nation on Earth, behind only China. More and more of India's 1.16 billion inhabitants are buying cars. In 2005 to 2006 about 463,000 automobiles were sold in India, and one company, Tata Motors, has begun producing a car for the domestic Indian market that sells for less than $3,000. So automobile engineering has become a hot career in India. The IndiCareer website lists 15 colleges in India that offer four-year degrees in automobile engineering.
  
  

Automobile Engineering Programs

• Two-thirds of the colleges listed by IndiCareers as offering a Bachelor of Engineering or Bachelor of Technology degree in Automobile Engineering are located in Karnataka State, where Bangalore is located. The state of Maharashtra has two, and Kerala, Madya Pradesh and Tamil Nadu states have one each. In India the BE and BTech degrees are considered equivalent, and all the schools offer either one in the same four-year program.
  
  

PDA College of Engineering

• Poojya Doddappa Appa College of Engineering in Gulbarga, Karnataka,
  was the first of 46 educational institutions started by the Hyderabad Karnataka Education society founded by the late Shri Mahadevappa Rampure in 1958. All 11 of the school's undergraduate and all of its eight post-graduate engineering programs, including the BTech/BE courses, are affiliated with the Visveswaraya Technological University in Belgaum. PDA College was honored as the Best College of the Year in the state level students' projects exhibition in 2000.
  
  PDA College of Engineering,
  Aiwan-E-Shahi Area
  Gulbarga 585102 India
  Phone (STD Code: 08472) 224262; Fax: 255685
  pda@hkesociety.org
  pda.hkesociety.org/about.htm
  
  

Guru Nanak Engineering College

• Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College, located in Bidar, Karnataka, has been open since August, 1980, and is now managed by the Sri Nanak Jhira Saheb Foundation and affiliated with Visvesvaraya Technological University in Belgaum.
  
  Dr. Rajshekhar Koujalgi
  Dr. Ishwar Koujalgi charitable trust
  H.N.8-10-207
  New Housing Colony
  Ganesh Maidan
  Bidar 585401
  +91-8482-226313
  +91-9448-120313 (cell)
  rajshekharik@gmail.com
  
  

Rustamji Institute of Technology

• The Rustamji Institute of Technology (RJIT) in Gwalior, Madya Pradesh State, is India's first engineering college to have been started by a paramilitary organization, the Border Security Force. Since so many of the members of the BSF are deployed far from home and cannot oversee their children's education themselves, the Border Security Force education fund created the institute. RJIT provides those children with a chance to earn a technology-oriented higher education.
  
  Rustamji Institute of Technology
  BSF Academy, Tekanpur, Gwalior 475 005 (M.P.) India
  07524-274320, 74319
  07524-275434
  Fax : +91-7524-274320
  rjit_bsft@yahoo.com
  www.rjit.org
  
  

MH Saboo Siddi K College of Engineering

• Since it was begun in 1984, the private MH Saboo Siddi K College of Engineering, in the Byculla district of Mumbai (formerly Bombay) in Maharastra State has been offering technical degrees. Their programs, including the BE/BTech program, are approved by the All India Council for Technical Education in New Delhi. In the 2007-2008 school year they accepted 60 students into the program. The school also offers several other engineering degrees.
  
  Anjuman-I-Islam MH Saboo Siddik
  College of Engineering
  8 Saboo Siddik Polytechnic Road
  P.B. No.4627, Byculla, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
  Pin Code: 400008
  +91-22-22620177
  sabcoleg@vsnl.com
  mhss.edu
  
  

Institute of Road and Transport Technology

• The Institute of Road and Transport Technology, operated by the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu's Transport Department, can be found in the city of Erode. IRTT provides excellent facilities and support services on its 350-acre campus. IRTT's website says the school works closely with industry professionals so that graduates have the best chance to succeed in what is a highly competitive employment market. The institute, rated among the top engineering institutes in India, is affiliated with the Bharathiyar University, Coimbatore, and approved by the All India Council for Technical Education.
  
  Institute of Road & Transport Technology
  Post Box No. 2
  Sri Vasavi College Post Erode
  Tamilnadu
  India-638316
  +91-424-2533279; +91-424-2533590 (fax)
  irttplacementcell@yahoo.co.in
  http://www.irtt.ac.in/