College Of Technology And Engineering counts among the few Prestigious Government colleges apart from IIT's and NIT's. This College was Recently awarded AIR-83 in a list of technical institutes prepared by UGC, second only to MNIT, Jaipur in Rajasthan. Apart from that college recently got accredited from NBA. I got my Admission through now non-existent RPET
CTAE usually has a high cut-off for branches like CS and MECH., and state rank cut-off went to about 2K for CS and Mech. The new cut-off state ranks calculated through JEE-Mains also end up pretty close to same Number.