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CHENNAI: After a gap of three years, the Anna University (Chennai) has revived the practice of publishing online a comprehensive rank list of engineering colleges based on the performance of students in the semester examinations.

The Sivakasi-based self-financing institution Mepco Schlenk Engineering College tops the performance list with 88.74% of its students passing in all the subjects they appeared for during the April-May semester exams. Of the 1,s750 students of the college who appeared for the examination , 1,553 have cleared all papers. Coming a close second is the Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar College of Engineering (SSN) in Thiruporur, administered by a trust managed by industrialist Shiv Nadar, with an overall pass percentage of 87.96.

Kongu Engineering College in Erode, the Institute of Road and Transport Technology (IRTT) in Erode and the Chennai-based Meenakshi Sundararajan Engineering College bagged the third, fourth and fifth slots respectively.

Last on the list of 242 colleges is the Vellore-based GGR College of Engineering where of the 357 students only 21 managed to pass in all subjects.

In another rank list, which has been prepared on the basis of the number of answer scripts in which the students have passed, the SSN College and Meenakshi Sundararajan College are tied in the first slot with a success rate of 95.4%. In that list, the IRTT is placed seventh, while Mepco, Kongu, Arulmigu Kalasilingam College of Engineering and Chennai-based Sri Sairam Engineering College have secured the second, third, fourth and fifth slots respectively.

The practice of hosting the collective performance of colleges in semester examinations on the internet was introduced five years ago, when E Balagurusamy was the vice chancellor of Anna University . Subsequently, his successor D Viswanathan had discontinued this, allegedly on a request from some college owners who felt that it affected admissions in institutions, which had fared poorly in examinations.

The reintroduction of the practice by the incumbent vice chancellor P Mannar Jawahar has brought cheers to the student and parent community. They feel that this list would serve as a valuable indicator during admissions and also check misleading representation about the examination results in advertisements. Besides, this will bring about a positive change with colleges competing to better their positions next time.

However, the flip side is that in the past some colleges which had figured in the top 25 ranks had hiked their capitation fee for management quota students citing the good academic record. The complete rank list is available on the website www.annauniv.edu..