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Cover Story EW India Private University Rankings 2024-25

and Cornell University (USA) and
former faculty at the top-ranked
Indian Institute of Science, Banga-
lore (1996-2021), appointed found-
ing vice chancellor of this ambitious,
high-potential technology university
in early 2023.
The EW league table of private
engineering universities constitutes
an exclusive list of high quality
engineering and technology HEIs
because UGC — the apex-level super-
visory body for higher education — is
loath to confer autonomy on private
education institutions and sets a high
qualification bar for them. Therefore,
all universities in the EW league
table are ipso facto among India’s
best — even if laggard by global stan-
dards — engineering institutions.
Plaksha U's Dr. Rudra Pratap: "grand challenges of 21st century" excitement Moreover readers should bear
in mind that institutions modestly
committed to providing our students first three IITs (Indian Institutes ranked in the national league table
a conducive learning environment, of Technology). This new state-of- may well be heavyweights in their
strengthening academy-industry the-art digital technologies driven host states. For instance, the Jaypee
connections, nurturing a research fully-residential private univer- Institute of Information Tech-
culture, promoting global perspec- sity established at a project cost of nology, Noida ranked #11 nation-
tives, and shaping skilled profession- Rs.850 crore on a 50-acre campus in ally is the #1 private engineering
als and innovative thinkers ready for Mohali (Punjab) has 370 undergrad, university in Uttar Pradesh (pop.230
success in the global arena,” adds Masters and some Ph D students en- million); University of Engineer-
Nair. Currently TIET hosts 10,465 rolled in four new-age interdisciplin- ing & Management (UEM), Kol-
students mentored by 723 full-time ary study programmes — computer kata India #23 is #1 in West Bengal
faculty. science & artificial intelligence; cyber (pop.102 million) and the Gandhi
Further down the Top 10 table of security systems; biosystems engi- Institute of Engineering & Tech-
India’s most respected private engi- neering and data sciences, econom- nology (GIET), Rayagada ranked
neering universities, the intensively ics and business. India #25 is the #1 private university
advertised Lovely Professional “Although we are a very young of Odisha (pop.47 million).
University, Phagwara (Punjab) university and none of our students Although the EducationWorld
has been awarded a big promotion to have graduated, our bold curriculum India Higher Education Rankings
#6 (9) and Hindustan Institute of designed to focus on grand challeng- 2024-25 has solicited informed
Technology & Science, Chennai es of the 21st century has generated opinion to evaluate India’s most re-
to #8 (10). considerable excitement in India puted public and private engineering
Beyond the Top 10 and until #20, and abroad. Recently, we con- universities, it’s important to bear in
there are minor changes from 2023- cluded student and faculty exchange mind that India’s best are laggards
24 in this year’s league table of In- agreements with some of the most by international standards. Bring-
dia’s most admired private engineer- respected universities worldwide, ing them up to speed to compare
ing universities. Most institutions including UC, Berkeley, UC San and compete with the world’s best
have retained their rankings, give or Diego, Purdue, Cornell and U Penn. engineering and technology HEIs is a
take a rank. These agreements will enable our mission of utmost importance if 21st
The most notable is the debut students to greatly benefit by way the country is to realise the dream of
of previously unranked new wave of international mobility and joint a Viksit Bharat and $30 trillion GDP
Plaksha University, Mohali (PU, programmes which will equip and economy. To this end, government,
estb.2021) at #20. The crowd-funded prepare them for international work- managements, faculty and students
PU bills itself as India’s first technol- places,” says Dr. (Prof.) Rudra have a critically important responsi-
ogy university promoted after the Pratap, an alum of IIT-Kharagpur bility to discharge.

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