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Cover Story EW India Private University Rankings 2024-25

Parameters of excellence: India’s Top 10 Private Universities

(across all categories)

o compile the EW India Private University Rankings excellence.
2024-25, AZ Research field researchers interviewed The ‘research and innovation’ parameter was assigned
T2,100 higher education faculty, students and industry highest weightage (300) indicating that respondents
managers countrywide, asking them to rate institutions on believe that the ability of faculty to engage in meaningful
ten parameters, viz, competence of faculty, faculty welfare research and development including publication of papers
and development, research and innovation, curriculum in reputed international journals, is the most important
and pedagogy, industry interface, placements record, criterion for assessing the educational capabilities of
infrastructure and facilities, internationalism, leadership/ universities. Parameter rankings which highlight the prime
governance quality and range/diversity of programmes strengths of highly ranked institutions are useful because
offered. Further, the informed interviewees were asked to they enable students to select institutions whose priorities
assign weightage to each parameter. The scores awarded by dovetail with their own.
the respondents were totaled to rank India’s Top 10 private The national ranking of Top 10 private universities
universities under each parameter of higher education under all ten parameters, are set out below.

Rank Competence of faculty Rating Rank Range/diversity of Rating
2021 2022 2023 2024 (150) 2021 2022 2023 2024 programmes offered (100)
1 3 1 1 Birla Institute of Technology and Science 1 1 1 1 Manipal Academy of Higher Education 87
(BITS), Pilani 148 9 5 5 2 ICFAI Foundation for Higher Education
3 1 3 1 International Institute of Information (Deemed University), Hyderabad 86
Technology (IIIT), Hyderabad 148 3 3 2 3 Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore 85
1 4 8 2 OP Jindal Global University, Sonipat 147 2 2 3 4 Amity University, Noida 84
7 7 3 2 Amity University, Noida 147 8 6 6 5 Shiv Nadar University, Gautam Buddha
6 6 2 3 Manipal Academy of Higher Education 146 Nagar 83
5 4 4 3 Thapar Institute of Engineering & 6 4 4 6 Thapar Institute of Engineering &
Technology (Deemed University), Patiala 146 Technology (Deemed University), Patiala 82
NR NR 7 4 FLAME University, Pune 145 NR NR 7 6 Ashoka University, Sonipat 82
10 7 5 4 Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT) NR NR NR 7 Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT)
University 145 University 79
2 2 6 5 Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information NR NR 8 8 FLAME University, Pune 78
and Communication Technology, NR NR NR 8 OP Jindal Global University
Gandhinagar 144 (Deemed University), Sonipat 78
NR NR NR 6 Azim Premji University, Bengaluru 143 NR 10 9 9 NMIMS (Narsee Monjee Institute of
7 6 7 6 Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore 143 Management Studies) Deemed University,
9 8 8 6 Krea University, Sri City 143 Mumbai 76
6 6 5 7 Ashoka University, Sonipat 142 NR NR NR 10 Birla Institute of Technology and
6 5 7 8 NMIMS (Narsee Monjee Institute of Science (BITS), Pilani 75
Management Studies) Deemed University, NR NR NR 10 BML Munjal University, Gurugram 75
Mumbai 141 NR NR NR 10 Amity University, Kolkata 75
NR NR 10 8 BML Munjal University, Gurugram 141 NR NR NR 10 Azim Premji University, Bengaluru 75
NR 10 10 9 Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher
Education and Research (Deemed
University), Chennai 140
10 9 6 10 ICFAI Foundation for Higher Education
(Deemed University), Hyderabad 138
NR NR NR 10 TERI School of Advanced Studies, Delhi 138
NR NR 10 10 PES University, Bengaluru 138 NB: NR= Not Ranked

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