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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.
2023-24, C fore field researchers interviewed 2,147 The ‘research and innovation’ parameter was assigned
Tfaculty, 1,310 final year students and 776 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
2020 2021 2022 2023 (150)

3 1 3 1 Birla Institute of Technology and Science
(BITS), Pilani 147
5 6 6 2 Manipal Academy of Higher Education 146
7 7 7 3 Amity University, Noida 145
1 3 1 3 International Institute of Information
Technology (IIIT), Hyderabad 145
8 5 4 4 Thapar Institute of Engineering &
Technology (Deemed University), Patiala 144
6 10 7 5 Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT)
University 143
2 6 6 5 Ashoka University, Sonipat 143
3 2 2 6 Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information Vellore Institute of Technology class in session: faculty
and Communication Technology, competence India #3
Gandhinagar 142
NR 10 9 6 ICFAI Foundation for Higher Education
(Deemed University), Hyderabad 142 Rank Range/diversity of Rating
NR 7 6 7 Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore 141 2020 2021 2022 2023 programmes offered (100)
10 6 5 7 NMIMS (Narsee Monjee Institute of
Management Studies) Deemed University, 1 1 1 1 Manipal Academy of Higher Education 87
Mumbai 141 3 3 3 2 Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore 86
NR NR NR 7 FLAME University, Pune 141 2 2 2 3 Amity University, Noida 85
4 1 4 8 OP Jindal Global University, Sonipat 140 NR 6 4 4 Thapar Institute of Engineering &
6 9 8 8 Krea University, Sri City 140 Technology (Deemed University), Patiala 84
9 4 5 9 Shiv Nadar University, Gautam Buddha NR 9 5 5 ICFAI Foundation for Higher Education
Nagar 139 (Deemed University), Hyderabad 83
NR NR 10 10 Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher 7 8 6 6 Shiv Nadar University, Gautam Buddha
Education and Research (Deemed Nagar 82
University), Chennai 138 NR NR NR 7 Ashoka University, Sonipat 81
NR NR NR 10 BML Munjal University, Gurugram 138 NR NR NR 8 FLAME University, Pune 80
NR NR NR 10 PES University, Bengaluru 138 NR NR 10 9 NMIMS (Narsee Monjee Institute of
Management Studies) Deemed University,
Mumbai 79
NB: NR= Not Ranked NR NR NR 10 Krea University, Sri City 78

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