Is Banaras Hindu University (BHU) the No 1 University in India? If yes then who offered the no 1 ranking to the BHU and if not then tell me the actual ranking of the Banaras Hindu University? My name is Sanjana and I am interested to do a course from the best university in India?

Indian Institute of Technology Banaras Hindu University (IIT BHU), Varanasi is a public engineering institution founded in 1919 as the Banaras Engineering College.

It became the Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University in 1968. It was designated an Indian Institute of Technology in 2012.

Ranking

It was ranked 6th in Outlook India's Top Engineering Colleges of 2015. Dataquest's Technology School 2015 ranking placed it at 4th position.

In India Today's Best Engineering colleges of 2016 it has been placed at 6th position. It is ranked 14 in National Institutional Ranking Framework published by Ministry of Human Resource Development in April 2016.

BHU is ranked third in the 2016 The Week -Hansa Research Top Universities in India. BHU is ranked second in India Today's India's Top 30 Universities of 2015.

BHU has been consistently ranked in the top 5 in this survey. In the survey conducted by the prestigious India Today group in 2010, BHU was ranked as number 1 among all Indian universities.

The engineering institute IIT-BHU was ranked No. 7 on the Outlook India Top Engineering Colleges of India and No. 4 on Dataquest's India's Top Engineering Colleges 2011 (DQ-CMR Top T-Schools Survey 2015).

It was ranked 13 in India overall and 6th amongst multidisciplinary universities by the CWTS Leiden ranking. It ranks first in India in the field of academic and research output as per Scopus and Web of Science Database.

It was ranked first in India by a Paris-based organisation. In 2014, it was ranked at 142 among the top 300 universities in Asia in the list of ‘Asian Universities Rankings 2014’ by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) Rankings.

IIT BHU Notable Alumni

Thomas Anantharaman, one of the -member team at IBM who developed IBM Deep Blue supercomputer.
Pulickel Ajayan, a pioneering scientist in the field of carbon nanotubes.
Kota Harinarayana, a Padma Shri awardee and distinguished scientist at DRDO.
Narla Tata Rao, a Padma Shri awardee. Doyen of power sector in India, played a pivotal role in development of NTPC and PowerGrid Corporation of India.
Patcha Ramachandra Rao, Renowned Metallurgist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize recipient and former Vice Chancellor of Benaras Hindu University.
Anand Mohan (engineer), Former Director NIT Kurukshetra
Palle Rama Rao, Renowned scientist. Padma Shri, Padma Bhushan and Padma Vibhushan awardee.
Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Charles Godfrey Binder (Endowed) Professor at Penn State University, USA. and pioneer of sculptured thin films.
V. Padmanabhan, Professor of Marketing, The John H. Loudon Chaired Professor of International Management, at INSEAD.
S. P. Sukhatme, a Padma Shri awardee, Former Director IIT Bombay & Chairman of the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board.
Pankaj Chandra, former Director, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore.
Samir K Srivastava (Electrical, ), Professor, Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow
Rohit Bhatnagar, Professor, Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Technological University
Amit Misra, Professor & Department Chair, Materials Science and Engineering, University of Michigan
Devesh Kapur, Director at the Centre for the Advanced Study of India and Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania
Some Nath Banerjee, Technical Advisor at Tata Power & Former Regional Executive Director (NCR) at NTPC Limited.
Sanat Jain, Chief Inspector, The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), The Netherlands (an organ of United Nations Organisation)
The OPCW was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for year .
N. Ravishankar, materials scientist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate
Nikesh Arora, President at Softbank, Ex-Senior Vice President and Chief Business Officer at Google. Currently the highest paid Indian executive in the world.
Sahu Ramesh Chandra Jain, was the Executive Director of Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd., Chairman of Press Trust of India and the Indian Newspaper Society and the only person to edit both The Times of India and Navbharat Times.
Vish Mishra, Venture Director, Clearstone Venture Partner.
Naveen Agarwal, C.E.O. at Pricelock
Ram Charan (consultant), Global Indian of the year by Economic Times.
LC Singh, Founder, President and CEO of Nihilent.
Shirish Sathaye, Senior Partner at Matrix Partners.
S .P. Shukla, Member of Group Executive Board Mahindra Group. Former Director of Reliance Group, Director- Sales and Marketing at Swisscom Essar (Now Vodafone).
Vishambar Saran, a mining engineer and founder of VISA Steel and also the former director of raw materials at Tata Steel.
Gyanesh Pandey, Co-Founder, CEO and CTO of Husk Power Systems.
Dr. M. N. Dastur, Founder Chairman and Managing Director of M. N. Dastur and Company.
Sunil Khanna, President and MD, Emerson Network Power, India.
Amritansh Raghav, Senior Vice President of Engineering and Chief Security Officer at Fuze Box, former Director of Engineering for Google Compute Engine and Google Apps.
A.N. Sreeram, Corporate vice president, Research & Development, The Dow Chemical Company.
Krishan Kumar Modi, Chairman, Modi Group.
K. K. Nohria, Chairman emeritus at Crompton Greaves. Father of Nitin Nohria, Dean of Harvard Business School.
Ganesh Rengaswamy, Co-founder of Travelguru.com and Partner and Co-founder, Quona Capital
Krishan Kant, former Vice-President of India.
Ashok Singhal, former President, Vishva Hindu Parishad.
Manoj Sinha, Minister of State, Railways
Veer Bhadra Mishra, Professor, founder of Sankat Mochan Foundation and was a TIME Magazines "Hero of the Planet" recipient in for his work related to cleaning of the Ganges.
Sandeep Pandey, a Ramon Magsaysay awardee who started the Asha for Education foundation.
Satyendra Dubey, former Assistant Project Director at the National Highways Authority of India who was murdered after exposing corruption.
Satinath Sarangi, activist and founder and manager of Sambhavna Trust (a charitable trust for Bhopal disaster victims).
Rajiv Dogra, Indian diplomat, author and commentator.
Ved Prakash Goyal, Former Treasurer of the Bharatiya Janata Party and Union Minister of Shipping India.
Dr. G.N. Singh, The present Drug Controller General Of India.
Manick Sorcar, Award winning artist and animator.
Varun Grover (writer), National Film Award winning Lyricist and Songwriter. Famous for writing the songs of Gangs of Wasseypur.
Arun Anant, ex-CEO at The Hindu.
Neeraj Ghaywan, Indian Film Director Masaan