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THE HUMAN DEVELOPMENT MAGAZINE

Volume X XIV No.4

BOARD OF ADVISORS A large number of media publications — dailies and periodicals
N.R. Narayana Murthy, H.V. Gowthama, Shukla
Bose, Dr. Glenn Christo, Dr. R. Natarajan — rate and rank education institutions under several parame-
(Bangalore); Adi Godrej, Dr. Augustine Pinto, ters and in various categories. Yet all of them are either general
Guilherme Vaz, Ketan Gala, Kirit Mehta, Balkishan interest publications or business magazines which regard this
Sharma (Mumbai); Dr. Ramdas Pai (Manipal);
Prof. Geeta Kingdon (Lucknow); Rajiv Desai, Dr. exercise primarily as an annual revenue generation initiative.
Parth Shah, Jeroninio Almeida, Premchand Palety But EducationWorld is a focused education news and features magazine
(Delhi); Dr. Kannan Gireesh (Chennai); Robindra
Subba (Kurseong); Sanjeev Bolia (Kolkata); Dr. whose prime intent is to reform and rejuvenate India’s fast obsolescing educa-
Achyuta Samanta (Bhubaneswar); Shyama Thakore tion system. Therefore logically, our elaborate league tables rating and ranking
(London)
education institutions are more purposive and credible. We are better aware
EDITOR that choosing the aptitudinally most suitable college and university may well
Dilip Thakore be the most important decision of a young person’s life.
MANAGING EDITOR To conduct this national institutions evaluation exercise, we have part-
Summiya Yasmeen nered with our trusted ally, the highly-reputed Delhi-based market research
CHIEF SUB-EDITOR company, Centre for Forecasting & Research Pvt. Ltd (C fore, estb.2000).
Sundar Anand Over 100 field personnel of C fore interviewed 2,960 faculty and 3,707 senior
Paromita Sengupta, Reshma Ravishanker, Gopi students in higher education countrywide, and 446 industry representatives
Chand N, (Bangalore), Autar Nehru (Delhi) and persuaded them to rate India’s most reputed Arts, Science and Commerce
9868256512, Baishali Mukherjee (Kolkata)
9836491981, Shivani Chaturvedi (Chennai) and Private Engineering Colleges on six-nine parameters of collegiate educa-
9500506102 tion excellence. Scores awarded under each parameter by these knowledgeable
CHIEF EXECUTIVE sample respondents were totalled to rank colleges in each category.
Bhavin Shah +91 9867382867 Although considerable time and money is spent by all publications employ-
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E-mail: marketing@educationworld.in For instance, NAAC employs a direct audit methodology to award its grad-
GRAPHICS ings. Not only is this a very expensive proposition, but as a recent scandal has
Suresh K. proved, audit teams are susceptible to the blandishments of assessee institu-
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EDITORIAL even our league tables are for shortlisting the most suitable higher education
C3-36, 3rd Floor, Devatha Plaza institutions. The shortlisted ones require further detailed investigation.
131 Residency Road, Bangalore 560 025. With this cautionary advice, in this issue we present the EW league table
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E-mail: editorial@educationworld.in of India’s Top 500 Arts, Science and Commerce, and Private Engineering
Colleges. Plus of course, our other columns and unmatched news reports and
Printed and published by Dilip Thakore on behalf
of DT Media & Entertainment Pvt. Ltd. important book reviews. In the next issue, we will present the EWIHER league
Printed at Rajhans Enterprises, 134, 4th Main, In- tables of the country’s best universities followed by a grand event to felicitate
dustrial Town, Rajajinagar, Bangalore-44. Published and celebrate them. For us, the condition and progress of higher education
at C3-36, 3rd Floor, Devatha Plaza, 131 Residency institutions is serious business.
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