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Parameters of excellence: India’s Top 10 Private Universities

(across all categories)

o compile the EW India Private University Rankings of higher education excellence.
2022-23, C fore field researchers interviewed 2,236 The ‘research and innovation’ parameter was assigned
Tfaculty, 1,047 final year students and 882 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 and in reputed international journals, is the most important
pedagogy (digital readiness), industry interface, placements criterion for assessing the educational capabilities of
record, infrastructure and facilities, internationalism, universities. Parameter rankings which highlight the prime
leadership/governance quality and range/diversity of strengths of highly ranked institutions are useful because
programmes offered. Further, the informed interviewees they enable students to select institutions whose priorities
were asked to assign weightage to each parameter. The dovetail with their own.
scores awarded by the respondents were totaled to rank The national ranking of Top 10 private universities
India’s Top 10 private universities under each parameter under all ten parameters, are set out below.

Rank Competence of faculty Rating
2019 2020 2021 2022 (150)

1 1 3 1 International Institute of Information
Technology (IIIT), Hyderabad 149
5 3 2 2 Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information &
Communication Technology, Gandhinagar 148
3 3 1 3 Birla Institute of Technology and Science
(BITS), Pilani 147
8 8 5 4 Thapar Institute of Engineering &
Technology (Deemed University), Patiala 146
4 4 1 4 O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat 146
NR 10 6 5 NMIMS Deemed-to-be-University, Mumbai 145
10 9 4 5 Shiv Nadar University, Gautam
Buddha Nagar 145 Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore students: range of
NR NR 7 6 Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore 144 programmes India #3
1 2 6 6 Ashoka University, Sonipat 144
5 5 6 6 Manipal Academy of Higher Education 144
NR NR NR 7 Birla Institute of Technology (Deemed Rank Range/diversity of
University), Mesra (Ranchi) 143 Rating
8 7 7 7 Amity University, Noida 143 2019 2020 2021 2022 programmes offered (100)
7 6 10 7 Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT) 1 1 1 1 Manipal Academy of Higher Education 89
University 143 4 2 2 2 Amity University, Noida 88
NR 6 9 8 Krea University, Sri City 142 3 3 3 3 Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore 87
NR NR 10 9 ICFAI University, Hyderabad 141 NR NR 6 4 Thapar Institute of Engineering &
NR NR NR 10 Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Technology (Deemed University), Patiala 83
Education and Research (Deemed
University), Chennai 140 NR NR 9 5 ICFAI University, Hyderabad 81
NR NR 8 10 Symbiosis International (Deemed 7 7 8 6 Shiv Nadar University, Gautam
University), Pune 140 Buddha Nagar 79
NR 6 5 7 Christ Deemed University, Bengaluru 78
NR NR NR 8 Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT)
University 77
NR NR NR 9 Birla Institute of Technology (Deemed
University) Mesra (Ranchi) 76
NB: NR= Not Ranked NR NR NR 10 NMIMS Deemed-to-be University, Mumbai 75

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