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INDIA’S TOP-RANKED GOVERNMENT MULTI-

DISCIPLINARY UNIVERSITIES

It’s pertinent to note that India’s 657 government including makes it easier for school-leaving
235 Central and 422 state government universities educate students and graduates to select
government universities (whose
73.1 percent of the total 41.3 million students in higher tuition fees tend to be substantially
education lower) best suited to their aptitude
and academic aspirations.
To conduct the EW India Govern-
ment University Rankings 2023-24,
we commissioned the highly-reputed
Delhi-based market research and
opinion polls company Centre for
Forecasting & Research Pvt. Ltd
(C fore, estb.2000) to interview
4,223 sample respondents compris-
ing 2,147 faculty, 1,210 final year
students of 162 universities, and 766
industry representatives in 25 cities
countrywide.
These respondents were persuad-
ed to award government universi-
ties of whom they have sufficient
knowledge, scores of 1-300 on ten
parameters of higher education
excellence, viz, faculty competence,
faculty welfare and development,
research and innovation, curriculum
UoM's Pro VC Prof. Ajay Bhambre (centre right): commitment proof and pedagogy (digital readiness),
industry interface, placements,
lthough India’s fast mul- and ranked only private universities, infrastructure, internationalism,
tiplying new genre private was expanded to also rank the best leadership/governance and range
Auniversities constitute the reputed Central and state govern- and diversity of study programmes.
glamour section of the annual Edu- ment varsities inter se. Last year, Higher weightage is given to the
cationWorld India Higher Education in keeping with our commitment to critical parameters of faculty compe-
Rankings (EWIHER), government continuously improve and refine our tence (150), research and innovation
varsities continue to be the domi- ranking surveys, the broad cat- (300) and infrastructure (150).
nant force in higher education. Of egory of government (and private) Within the broad category of
the country’s 1,113 universities, universities was further sub-divided government varsities, higher educa-
657 are government-promoted (cf. according to subject specialisations. tion institutions (HEIs) offering
446 in the private sector), accord- In EWIHER 2023-24, govern- multidisciplinary programmes are
ing to the latest All India Survey of ment universities are ranked in nine more popular with students as they
Higher Education 2020-21 (AISHE). separate categories — multidisci- provide a wide range of study pro-
More important, 657 government plinary, law and humanities, natural grammes across numerous faculties
including 235 Central and 422 state and life sciences (including medical), including arts, humanities, science,
government universities educate engineering and technology, all- commerce, management, engineer-
73.1 percent of the total 41.3 million women, agriculture, physical scienc- ing and technology, etc, and offer
students in higher education. es and sports, maths and research. opportunity for inter-disciplinary
Therefore in 2020, the annual This segregation eliminates apples study. Consequently, it’s not surpris-
EWIHER, which until then rated and oranges type comparisons and ing that the longest league table in

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