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Cover Story EW India Private University Rankings 2024-25

INDIA'S BEST Private Liberal Arts & Humanities Universities

disciplinary arts education to students.
This achievement is also evidence of
the commitment of our faculty and
staff who often go beyond the call of
duty to develop intellectually mature
students with critical thinking skills,”
says Prof. C. Raj Kumar, the poly-
math Oxford and Harvard-educated
founding vice chancellor of JGU.
Raj Kumar is especially pleased
with the top score awarded to JGU un-
der the parameters of faculty compe-
tence, research, curriculum and peda-
gogy and internationalism. “I attribute
our success to the visionary leadership
of the deans and faculty members of
JGU's Dr. Raj Kumar (right): #1 three consecutive years JGU including Prof. Kathleen Mod-
rowski, Dean of the Jindal School of
ew-genre liberal arts uni- ties universities since 2022, is the O.P. Liberal Arts & Humanities. Also to
versities created great Jindal Global University (JGU), our well-designed interdisciplinary
public excitement and were Sonipat. This year’s 2,100 knowledge- academic curricula, research output,
Nranked within the national able EW sample respondents polled and state-of-the-art infrastructure,”
Top 20 of the composite private uni- by AZ Research Partners Pvt. Ltd have he adds. Currently, JGU’s 12 schools
versities league table in the annual EW again voted JGU as India’s #1 liberal have 12,000 students from 70 coun-
India Higher Education Rankings in arts and humanities university. tries mentored by 1,100 faculty includ-
2019. After sub-division of the broad “We are delighted and honoured to ing 129 international faculty from 50
category of private HEIs according to be ranked India’s #1 liberal arts and countries, on their muster rolls.
subject specialisation in 2022, they humanities university by Education- The eight-strong league table of In-
have risen higher. World for the third consecutive year. dia’s most admired private liberal arts
And dominating the exclusive This is a testament of JGU’s success in and humanities universities is set out
league table of liberal arts and humani- providing globally benchmarked inter- below.

Private liberal arts & humanities league table

Rank Competence of faculty Faculty welfare & development (100) Research and innovation (300) Curriculum & pedagogy Industry interface (100) Placement (100) Infrastructure (150) Internationalism (100) Leadership / governance Range/diversity of programmes offered (100) TOTAL SCORE (1300) NIRF 2023* Rank
2021 2022 2023 2024 (150) (100) quality (100)

3 1 1 1 OP Jindal Global University (Deemed University)
Sonipat 147 87 180 92 88 84 144 88 89 78 1077 NR
12 4 2 2 FLAME University, Pune 145 84 179 85 78 87 145 82 85 78 1048 NR
NR NR NR 3 MIT Art, Design & Technology University, Pune 140 74 167 80 72 70 130 78 82 74 967 NR
NR NR NR 4 Anant National University, Ahmedabad 122 62 167 68 69 79 91 68 75 58 859 NR
48 3 3 5 Deccan College Post-Graduate and Research
Institute (Deemed University), Pune 130 71 127 73 67 62 123 73 71 60 857 NR
76 5 4 6 World University of Design, Sonipat 122 69 126 65 62 61 123 59 66 59 812 NR
94 6 5 7 Jain Vishva Bharati Institute (Deemed University),
Nagaur (Rajasthan) 103 58 114 61 49 46 111 54 50 58 704 NR
103 7 6 8 Apex Professional University (APU), Pasighat
(Arunachal Pradesh) 100 52 118 56 49 46 95 48 48 56 668 NR

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