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As an Indian who didn't make it into the IITs (and instead attended a different school)"The rest are really bad" isn't entirely accurate: - Facilities aren't that much worse than the IITs - Student quality varies - there's smart/motivated and dumb/demotivated/burnt-out kids - unlike the IITs that has a much higher quality bar - but you have both kinds - Faculty is the real difference.. since faculty in India (esp Engineering) isn't geared to research the quality can really vary wildly - Basically - if you're great at what you do - academics isn't a great track in India unlike the US