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EW INDIA HIGHER EDUCATION RANKINGS 2024-25
TOP 500

ARTS, SCIENCE & COMMERCE

COLLEGES

The annual EWIHER with its careful categorisation of higher
education institutions — to eliminate apples and oranges type
comparisons – is the most reliable guide for school-leavers seeking
academically and aptitudinally suitable colleges and universities

Dilip Thakore

A S MOST CORPORATE LEADERS lament the unavailability of sufficiently well-qualified and

skilled youth for managerial and shop-floor jobs.
will testify, academic standards
India’s higher education institu-
After analysing the job-readiness of 440,000 young
tions — especially undergrad arts,
graduates in 2,500 campuses across India, in its India
science and commerce colleges —
Graduate Skills Index, Mercer/Mettl, a New York-based
are short of expectation. Year after
“world’s fastest, largest online assessment and certification
year the country’s 45,473 colleges
nonchalantly certify an estimated firm with several offices in India that bills itself as the
company”, reports that 55 percent of college graduates are
10 million graduates as ready for “not employable”. Consequently choosing the ‘right’ — most
employment in government, industry and business. The academically and aptitudinally suitable — undergrad col-
majority of them however, are far from job-ready and re- lege is a matter of critical importance for higher secondary
quire extensive and expensive post-induction training be- school-leavers.
fore they become productive. Therefore since 2013, your editors have been publishing
According to State of Working India 2023 report of the the EducationWorld India Higher Education Rankings to
Bengaluru-based Azim Premji University, 42 percent of make it easier for school-leavers to choose the most ap-
India’s graduates under-25 were unemployed in 2021-22. propriate undergrad Arts, Science and Commerce colleges
And this is not because there are no vacancies in industry in India. Although media publications and several govern-
and business. Quite the contrary. Most captains of India Inc ment agencies notably NAAC (National Assessment and

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