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tables worldwide. profile institutions ranked by less than
To rate India’s most respected Arts, 25 respondents were eliminated from
Science and Commerce colleges un- the rankings,” says Premchand Pal-
der six parameters of undergraduate ety, an alum of Panjab Engineering
education excellence viz, competence College and Fore School of Manage-
of faculty, faculty welfare and devel- ment, Delhi, who worked with ORG —
opment, curriculum and pedagogy India’s pioneer retail audit company
(including digital readiness), place- — for over a decade before promoting
ment of graduates, infrastructure and C fore in the millennium year.
facilities, and leadership/governance Against this backdrop in the pages
quality and rate them in separate, following, we present league tables
appropriate categories, we commis- rating and ranking India’s Top 500
sioned the Delhi-based Centre for private and government (which tend
Forecasting & Research Pvt. Ltd to be omitted from ranking league
(C fore, estb.2000), a nationally re- tables of other publications) autono-
puted field research and opinion polls mous and non-autonomous Arts, Sci-
company to interview a nationally rep- Palety: nationally representative sample ence and Commerce colleges. League
resentative sample of individuals with tables ranking the country’s most
good knowledge of India’s higher edu- were interviewed by our field person- respected universities (government
cation sector. nel and asked to rate colleges they and private) and business manage-
“Accordingly, we constituted a were familiar with on a 1-100 points ment institutions will be featured
sample respondents database com- scale against six parameters of un- next month in our May issue. Sub-
prising 1,747 college faculty members dergrad education. The scores they sequently, top-ranked colleges will
and 2,341 final year students with awarded every institute under the six be awarded and felicitated in a gala
good knowledge of Arts, Science and parameters were totalled to rank col- event scheduled to be staged in Delhi
Commerce colleges countrywide. They leges inter se in every category. Low- in May.

EWIHER 2023-24 COUNTRYWIDE SURVEY

Metro cities
Tier II, III & IV cities
(203 cities)

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