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Cover Story EW India Higher Education Rankings 2025-26

India’s Top 100 Undergrad Institutions as per

faculty-student ratio & internships

n response to public feedback, in this year’s EWIHER correlate with higher student engagement, better academic
2025-26, we present India’s Top 100 undergraduate outcomes and stronger relationships between students
Iinstitutions as per positive faculty-student ratio and and faculty. Student internships/ skill programmes
internships/ skill programmes. These parameters have ensure that students acquire workplace experience,
been selected after expert opinion weighed in that positive professional skills, and industry connections which
faculty-student ratio and internships/ skill programmes significantly enhances post-graduation employability and
matter most to school-leavers applying for undergrad career readiness.
programmes because they have significant impact on the The national ranking of Top 100 undergrad institutions
quality of education they receive. under the parameters of positive faculty-student ratio and
Positive faculty-student ratio i.e, smaller class sizes internships/ skill programmes, are set out below:

Rank Positive Faculty-Student Ratio Rank Positive Faculty-Student Ratio

1 Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology 26 Krea University, Sri City (AP)
(Deemed University), Patiala 27 DY Patil Deemed University, Navi Mumbai
2 University of Petroleum and Energy Studies (UPES), Dehradun 28 CMR University, Bengaluru
3 Ashoka University, Sonipat 29 Sikkim Manipal University, Gangtok
4 Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani 30 Lady Shri Ram College for Women, Delhi
5 OP Jindal Global University (Deemed University) 31 JSS College for Women, Mysuru
Sonipat (Haryana) 32 Loyola College, Chennai
6 Azim Premji University, Bengaluru 33 Sri Ramakrishna College of Arts and Science, Coimbatore
7 Chitkara University, Chandigarh 34 TERI School of Advanced Studies (Deemed University), Delhi
8 Anant National University, Ahmedabad 35 Stella Maris College, Chennai
9 Amity University, Noida 36 Alagappa College of Engineering (Anna University), Chennai
10 Manipal Academy of Higher Education 37 Vignan’s Foundation for Science Technology & Research
11 St. Joseph’s College (Autonomous), Bengaluru (Deemed University), Guntur
12 KLE Academy of Higher Education & Research (Deemed 38 Shri Shikshayatan College, Kolkata
University), Belagavi 39 Amity University, Kolkata
13 Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Educational & Research 40 NIIT University, Neemrana (Raj)
Institute (Deemed University), Howrah (WB) 41 RA Podar College of Commerce & Economics, Mumbai
14 ICFAI Foundation for Higher Education (Deemed University), 42 Bharati Vidyapeeth (Deemed University), Pune
Hyderabad
15 World University of Design, Sonipat 43 Mody University of Science and Technology, Laxmangarh
(Rajasthan)
16 Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore 44 Lovely Professional University, Phagwara
17 Sri Venkateswara College, Delhi 45 Narsee Monjee College of Commerce & Economics, Mumbai
18 Chitkara University, Solan 46 Sharda University, Greater Noida
19 Birla Institute of Technology (BIT), Mesra 47 Chandigarh University, Mohali
20 ICFAI University Jharkhand (Ranchi) 48 Rishihood University, Sonipat
21 FLAME University, Pune 49 VIT Bhopal University
22 Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan (Deemed University), Bhubaneswar 50 Garden City University, Bengaluru
23 St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata 51 Kamla Nehru College for Women, Phagwara
24 Shiv Nadar University, Gautam Buddha Nagar 52 BMS College of Engineering, Bengaluru
25 Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT) Deemed
University, Bhubaneswar 53 Barrackpore Rastraguru Surendranath College, Kolkata
54 Hansraj College, Delhi

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