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TOP 10 ARTS, SCIENCE & COMMERCE COLLEGES

PRIVATE AUTONOMOUS GOVERNMENT AUTONOMOUS NON-AUTONOMOUS

1 St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai 1 Government Degree College for Women, 1 St. Stephen’s College, Delhi
2 St. Joseph’s College (Autonomous), Begumpet, Hyderabad 2 Lady Shri Ram College for Women, Delhi
Bengaluru 2 Maharaja’s College, Kochi, Ernakulam 3 Shri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi
3 Mount Carmel College, Bengaluru 3 Presidency College, Chennai 4 Miranda House, Delhi
3 Mithibai College, Mumbai 4 Yuvaraja’s College, Mysuru 5 Hindu College, Delhi
4 St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata 5 Smt. Sarladevi Satishchandra Agarwal 6 Hansraj College, Delhi
4 Loyola College, Chennai Government First Grade College, Ballari 7 Kirori Mal College, Delhi
4 Narsee Monjee College of Commerce & 6 Maharani’s Science College for Women, 8 Sri Venkateswara College, Delhi
Economics, Mumbai Mysuru 9 Barrackpore Rastraguru Surendranath
5 KJ Somaiya College of Arts and 6 Sri Meenakshi Government Arts College College, Kolkata
Commerce, Mumbai for Women, Madurai 10 Jesus & Mary College, Delhi
5 RA Podar College of Commerce & 7 Sarojini Naidu Government Girls
Economics, Mumbai PG College, Bhopal
6 St. Francis College for Women, 7 Government Holkar (Model Autonomous)
Hyderabad Science College, Indore
7 Madras Christian College, Chennai 8 Government College, Anantapur (AP)
8 Nagindas Khandwala College, Malad (W), 9 Government VYT PG Autonomous
Mumbai College, Durg
8 KPB Hinduja College of Commerce, 10 Kanchi Mamunivar Government Institute and one abroad, is ranked #25 in the
for Postgraduate Studies and Research,

Mumbai Lawspet, Puducherry NIRF league table of India’s Top 100
9 BK Birla College of Arts, Science & engineering HEIs.
Commerce, Kalyan, Mumbai Moreover, excellent private engi-
10 Stella Maris College, Chennai neering HEIs which routinely rank
high in the annual EWIHER — Vel-
Accreditation Council), a subsidiary binary institutional evaluation sys- lore Institute of Technology,
of the University Grants Commis- tem of accredited and non-accredited IIIT-Hyderabad, Dhirubhai Am-
sion (UGC), awards its A-E star rat- institutions. And within several cat- bani Institute of Information &
ings to colleges and universities that egories it will award Level 1-5 ratings. Communication Technology,
opt for assessment, NAAC doesn’t — Academics are keeping their fingers Gandhinagar — don’t feature in the
and never did — inspire much confi- crossed that the new accreditation NIRF Top 100, indicating discernible
dence. Even though it was established system won’t be same old wine in a bias in favour of government-promot-
in 1994, thus far only 9,062 colleges new bottle. ed HEIs.
and universities have volunteered for The other official HEI (higher edu- Several media publications includ-
NAAC accreditation. cation institutions) rankings initiative ing India Today also publish annual
Last year at this time, Bhushan is the education ministry’s NIRF (Na- college and university rankings. But
Patwardhan, Chairman of NAAC, tional Institutional Ranking Frame- these are essentially politics-oriented
resigned in dramatic circumstances work) introduced in 2015. Although it publications lacking the specialist
citing “malpractices,” “manipulation” is often cited by some HEIs as proof of education knowledge and focus of
and “questionable grades” awarded university excellence, ab initio NIRF EducationWorld. Therefore, it is sub-
by NAAC to favoured higher educa- has attracted criticism for arbitrary mitted that the annual EWIHER with
tion institutions. This, as we remarked and absurd rankings. its careful categorisation of HEIs — to
on this page at the time, was hardly Last year while commenting on eliminate apples with oranges type
novel news for us because over the the EducationWorld India Higher comparisons — is the most reliable
years NAAC had besmirched its repu- Education Rankings (EWIHER) guide for school-leavers seeking aca-
tation by awarding five star rating to 2023-24, your editors highlighted demically and aptitudinally suitable
numerous colleges and universities the absurdity of the premier private colleges.
that didn’t deserve even three. Birla Institute of Technology and Against this backdrop, we present
The latest news reported by us Science (BITS) Pilani (estb.1964) Part-I edition of EWIHER 2024-25
last month (see https://www.edu- being ranked below several unheard in which we rate and rank India’s Top
cationworld.in/delhi-naacs-second- of provincial universities in NIRF 500 Arts, Science, Commerce (ASC)
innings/) is that NAAC has scrapped 2022. Again this year BITS-Pilani, and Engineering colleges. To provide
its A-E ratings system in favour of a which has several campuses in India an accurate guide we have carefully

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