Recently Educationtimes.com, a part of of Times of India, together with Gfk Mode, has done a ranking of universities across India in various disciplines. There methodology, in their own words, was as follows:
This survey was open to prominent universities across India and invitations were sent to 225 universities.
Among the 225 prominent universities invited, 136 participated. This constitutes around 61% participation.
Some universities refused to participate. Whereas many universities could not provide the required information within our time frame.
The contact persons at the universities were: the registrars, deputy registrars, principal, dean or the administrative heads.
That is it. They sent the surveys. Regardless of whether people participated or not; regardless of the veracity of what was given back; they made a ranking.
The parameters they used may seem reasonable to many, but to me there is a very simple way to rank Universities and Colleges in India. Just use faculty quality as the first parameter and if their is a tie then use the student quality as the second parameter. That’s it!
April 1st, 2009
Following is an excerpt from a report in Pioneer.
… the Synovate survey of the Outlook magazine has put KIIT School of Technology, a constituent of KIIT University in the 18 the position among the top 100 private technical colleges of the country in the same league as prestigious institutes such as BITS of Pilani, PSG College of Technology of Coimbator, BIT of Mesra, Thapar University of Patiala and VIT University of Vellore. It is the only institute from Orissa to feature in this elite list of private engineering colleges.
The survey, which conducted every year to reveal the names of 100 topmost colleges of the country, focuses on five basic parameters such as intellectual capital, pedagogic system, industry interface, infrastructure and facilities and placements. However, while most of the colleges figuring in the list have a history of 50 to 100 years, KIIT is only ten- years-old. KIIT has substantially improved its rank this year compared to the previous years. It was ranked 37th in 2007 and 100th in the year before.
June 21st, 2008
(Source: Livemint.com/ Dt. 12.06.08)
Livemint, a joint initiative of Hindustan Times and the Wall Street Journal has come up with a set of ranks for the various educational institutions in India cutting across Medicine, Law and Engineering amongst others.
The indicative list is as under:
Medicine:
1. AIIMS, New Delhi
2. CMC, Vellore
3. AFMC, Pune
Law:
1. National Law School of India University (NLSIU), Bangalore
2. NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad
3. National University of Juridical Sciences (NUJS), Kolkata
Engineering:
(Govt. Colleges)
1. IIT, Kharagpur
2. IIT, Kanpur
3. IIT, Mumbai
The above list has two Institutes from Orissa:
- NIT, Rourkela at 31
- UCE, Burla at 50
June 19th, 2008
