Question

Which was the first engineering college in India?
A. Thomason College
B. P.S.G. College of Technology
C. JNTU
D. VIT

Answer 1

Hint: you can start by mentioning what the first engineering college of India is, i.e. Thomason College. Also write down when the institution started, its new name, and the name of its founder. Then mention its ranking at the international, Asian, and national levels.

Complete answer:
The first engineering college in India was Thomson College.
Even if you live in India, you may have never heard of Thompson College before that because it was renamed the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee in 2001 and became the seventh institution to be named IIT. It now covers Engineering, Applies Sciences, Humanities, and Social Sciences and Management programs with special emphasis on scientific and technological education and research.
This institute was initially started in 1845 to train young engineers in Roorkee, Uttrakhand, India. It was officially established in 1847 and was named Thomason College of Civil Engineering in 1854 after the name of its founder James Thomason. Rai Bahadur Kanhaiya Lal was the first Indian to graduate from Roorkee College.
IIT Roorkee was ranked 383 in the rankings of QS World University in 2020. It is ranked 90 in Asia in 2020. In India, it is ranked sixth among the engineering colleges in 2020 by the National Institutional Ranking Framework.

So, the correct answer is “Option A”.

Note:
Aside from Thomason College, P.S.G. College of Technology was established in 1951 in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India. JNTU (Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University) was established in 1972 in Kukatpally, Hyderabad, Telangana, India. VIT (Vellore Institute of Technology) was established in 1984 in Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India.