Mechanical Engineering

College of engineering Pune ( COEP) is the best college in pune. It is a govenment college and the fee is similar to other government colleges.
MIT is also a good college in pune, but it is less affordable, and according to me, it is not much better than COEP.
You can even try Vishwakarma Institute of technology.

Top Mechanical Engineering Colleges in Kerala are mentioned at the link provided below. The ranking is based on engineering ranking published by The Week. https://www.shiksha.com/b-tech/ranking/top-mechanical-engineering-colleges-in-kerala/48-2-107-0-0.

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After Diploma in mechanical engineering, you can go for short term certificate courses like CNC Training, CAD/CAM Training, Catia, and Unigraphics, etc. You can even go for a proper B.Tech degree in mechanical engineering or related field. There are post graduate Diploma courses you can do like in machine maintenance, product and tool design, mechanical safety engineering, and applied mechanics, etc.

Here, the placement is decent enough with the packages on an average of 5-6 LPA. The dream packages of around 22-25 LPA (which only 2-3 get from CSE). For the mechanical, the best one can expect in core companies is hardly 20 LPA, and on an average, it touches around 3-4 LPA.