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INDIA’S MOST ADMIRED PRIVATE — given the highest weightage (300)

among all parameters of excellence —
and infrastructure (150).
MULTIDISCIPLINARY UNIVERSITIES Noida has been highly ranked in sev-
“In recent years, Amity University,
eral categories by international rating
agencies including QS and THE. We
are very happy and proud that we are
also ranked India’s #1 private multi-
disciplinary university by Education-
World, the premier education maga-
zine in India. Under the visionary
leadership of our founder Dr. Ashok K.
Chauhan, we are committed to bench-
marking AU with the best universi-
ties worldwide. More than a decade
ago, we decided to plant the Indian
flag around the world through Amity
institutions. Now we have our own
campuses in 12 countries and cities in-
cluding London, New York, San Fran-
cisco, Amsterdam, Singapore, Dubai,
Abu Dhabi, Pretoria, Quatre Bornes
(Mauritius) and Tashkent. Our global
network enables great synergies with
academia and industry around the
world. I am proud of the leadership of
Amity University’s Dr. Atul Chauhan: global network synergies the university and all the faculty and
scientists who work like one family to
With the restructuring and refinement of previous years conduct breakthrough research and
league tables to enable peer institution evaluation, except at innovation. For our focus on research
and innovation, the Government
summit levels there’s been considerable rearrangement of of India recently conferred on Am-
the seating order at the Top 10 table ity University the national award for
IPR and innovation. Our deep focus
on industry engagement globally and
s indicated in the introduction cept at summit levels there’s been con- investing students with the skills and
to EWIHER 2022-23, 4,105 siderable rearrangement of the seating mindset industry needs, has made us
Asample respondents compris- order at the Top 10 table. Evidently, an one of only six Indian institutions —
ing HEI faculty and students, and in- intensive multi-media, especially tele- most of them IITs and IIMs — to be
dustry leaders were persuaded by field vision, campaign heralding the high ranked by Times Higher Education,
personnel of the Delhi-based market ranking awarded in the QS and THE as a university nurturing the most
research and opinion polls compa- World University Rankings to Amity employable graduates,” says Dr.
ny C fore to rate the country’s most University, Noida has influenced Atul Chauhan, an alum, the London
high-profile universities — including the EW sample respondents to vote School of Economics and University
multi-disciplinary — on ten param- it India’s #1 private multidisciplinary College, London and chancellor of the
eters of higher education excellence. university this year. This brings to pioneer Amity University, Noida.
The scores awarded by the sample an end the long six-year reign of the With Amity University, Noida
respondents to private universities low-profile and under-promoted Ma- having charted a path and providing
under each parameter were totalled nipal Academy of Higher Educa- a model, several autonomous Am-
to rank private multidisciplinary uni- tion (MAHE) in the EWIHER league ity universities have also won golden
versities inter se. tables. Although pushed to #2, MAHE opinions from EW sample respon-
With the restructuring and refine- has the distinction of being awarded dents. Amity University, Jaipur
ment of last year’s league tables to the highest scores under the critical piloted by brother Aseem Chauhan is
enable peer institution evaluation, ex- parameter of research & innovation ranked #10 in this year’s private mul-

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