chennai selffinancing engineering colleges located in chennai and on its outskirts have once again cornered the top three slots in performance in the evensemester examinations conducted by the anna university chennai during mayjune this yearstudents of the chennaibased meenakshi sundararajan engineering college continued to sustain their stellar performance in the semester examinations the college has emerged on top of a list of 107 old engineering colleges established prior to 2007 with its students clearing most number of papers of the 10024 answer scripts written by students of the college as many as 9619 passed muster a success rate of 9596another feather in the cap of the institution is that its students have topped in overall performance in four major undergraduate engineering branches information technology civil engineering computer science engineering and electronics and communications engineering the sri sivasubramaniya nadar college of engineering ssn came a close second with its students clearing 18851 papers out of the 19775 in which they had appeared a success rate of 9542third on the list is the sri sairam engineering college in tambaram whose students have passed in 9486 of the 20108 papers in which they had appearedquite surprisingly just four of the 107 old engineering colleges have an overall success rate below 50 the colleges are the ggr college of engineering 4744 in vellore sri padmavathy college of engineering 4477 the annai teresa college of engineering 4453 and the thiruvalluvar college of engineering and technology 4439