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EW Grand Jury India Higher Education Rankings 2025-26

Exemplary Researcher of the Year Excellence in Skills Development Education
This award recognises higher education institutions that Higher education institutions providing new-age career-
encourage research which has caught, or has the potential oriented skill development and education programmes.
to catch, the imagination of the public and/or industry.

Rank
Rank
India
India 1 Nest Academy of Event Management & Development (NAEMD),

1 Marwadi University, Rajkot Mumbai
2 University of Mumbai's Garware Institute of Career Education 2 ASPEE Agribusiness Management Institute, Navsari Agricultural
and Development University
3 Mahatma Gandhi University, Khanapara (Meghalaya) 3 Sunbeam Women's College, Varuna, Varanasi
4 Central Sanskrit University, Delhi 4 Kavikulaguru Kalidas Sanskrit University, Ramtek, Nagpur
4 IIT Bombay 5 Mangalmay Institute of Management & Technology, Greater Noida
5 IILM University, Greater Noida 6 School of Hospitality & Tourism, Galgotias University, Greater
5 Pimpri Chinchwad University, Pune Noida
6 Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology, Pakyong 7 Hans Raj Mahila Maha Vidyalaya, Jalandhar
6 SNR Sri Ramakrishna Group of Institutes, Coimbatore 8 KCG College of Technology, Chennai
7 Galgotias University, Greater Noida 8 Vikash Law School, Bargarh (Odisha)
8 St. John Junior College, Palghar 9 Krishna's Vikash Institute of Technology, Raipur
9 KR Mangalam University, Gurugram 9 Indian Institute of Art & Design, Delhi
9 Apeejay School of Management, Mumbai 10 Western India Institute of Aeronautics, Ahmedabad
10 Bharati Vidyapeeth Deemed University, Pune

I credit our top rank in this category to the excellent
work being done in the Marwadi University Research
“Center (MURC), which has transformed into a hub
of high-end innovation. The university management has
invested heavily in cutting-edge instrumentation and
equipment such as the Scanning Electron Microscope,
X-ray Diffraction, Fourier Transform Infrared
Spectrometer etc, for MURC’s 50 full-time researchers.
Moreover, the university has collaboration agreements
with Bosch, IBM and Oracle to jointly establish fully
equipped on-campus labs to conduct subject-specific
research. We also offer seed grants ranging from Rs.2.5-
10 lakh to talented researchers” — Dr. Sanjeet Singh,
Pro Vice Chancellor, Marwadi University, Rajkot
(14,000 students and 900 faculty) Skills development and enhancement is not an
add-on curriculum but integrated into it, because
“we accord top priority to students’ career-readiness
and employability. Therefore, our curriculum ensures
the gap between academic knowledge and workplace
skills is bridged through live projects, internships,
and life skills education. Moreover our students
learn practically through on-the-ground training and
experience at major events such as IPL, IIFA, Sunburn,
IIJS, Lollapalooza, AceTech, Lil Flea, and Jio MAMI
Festival. This is supplemented with workshops led by
experts and certification programmes” — Pravin Joshi
(centre, front row), Director, Nest Academy of Event
Management and Development, Mumbai (1,000
students and 40 teachers)

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