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Parameters of excellence: India’s Top 10 ASC Colleges

(across all sub-categories)

o provide Plus Two students a comprehensive profile Rank Faculty welfare & Rating
of India’s most admired private arts, science and development (100)
Tcommerce colleges, the national league tables are 2022 2023 2024 2025
supplemented with Top 10 national rankings on the basis 3 3 1 1 Hindu College, Delhi 91
of parameters of excellence. 4 4 2 1 Lady Shri Ram College for Women, Delhi 91
To compile the league tables of the country’s top- 2 2 2 2 St. Stephen’s College, Delhi 90
ranked private autonomous, government autonomous and 1 1 2 3 Shri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi 89
non-autonomous colleges, AZ Research field researchers 9 7 3 4 Sri Venkateswara College, Delhi 88
interviewed 2,100 higher education faculty, students and 5 8 3 5 Hansraj College, Delhi 86
industry representatives countrywide, asking them to NR 9 4 6 St. Joseph’s College (Autonomous),
rate colleges other than their own on six parameters, viz, Bengaluru 85
competence of faculty, faculty welfare and development, NR 7 5 6 St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai 85
curriculum and pedagogy, placement record, infrastructure NR NR 8 6 Narsee Monjee College of Commerce
and leadership/governance quality. Equal weightage (100) & Economics, Mumbai 85
was given to each except the critical faculty competence NR 9 6 7 St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata 84
parameter which was weighted at 200. The ratings given by NR NR 10 7 St. Francis College for Women, Hyderabad 84
respondents under each parameter were totaled to arrive at NR 8 7 8 Mithibai College, Mumbai 83
an aggregate score according to which India’s top colleges 6 5 5 8 Miranda House, Delhi 83
are ranked. 9 6 6 8 Kirori Mal College, Delhi 83
The national rankings of Top 10 colleges (across all sub- NR NR 9 8 Nagindas Khandwala College, Malad (W),
categories) under all six parameters enumerated above, are Mumbai 83
set out below. NR NR 10 8 Madras Christian College, Chennai 83
NR 10 8 9 Loyola College, Chennai 82
NR NR NR 10 BK Birla College of Arts, Science &
Commerce, Kalyan, Mumbai 81
Rank Competence of faculty Rating NR NR NR 10 Kristu Jayanti College, Bengaluru 81
2022 2023 2024 2025 (200) NR NR NR 10 Rajagiri College of Social Sciences, Kochi 81

2 1 1 1 St. Stephen’s College, Delhi 185
1 2 2 2 Shri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi 182
4 4 2 2 St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai 182
7 6 3 3 Mount Carmel College, Bengaluru 180 Rank
10 10 3 3 St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata 180 Competence of faculty Rating
(200)
5 3 3 4 Lady Shri Ram College for Women, Delhi 179 2022 2023 2024 2025
8 9 6 4 KPB Hinduja College of Commerce, NR NR 9 7 RA Podar College of Commerce &
Mumbai 179 Economics, Mumbai 176
NR NR NR 4 KJ Somaiya College of Arts and 6 7 4 7 Narsee Monjee College of Commerce &
Commerce, Mumbai 179 Economics, Mumbai 176
8 9 5 5 Loyola College, Chennai 178 7 8 7 8 Hansraj College, Delhi 175
NR NR 7 5 Nagindas Khandwala College, Malad (W), NR NR 8 8 Guru Nanak College, Chennai 175
Mumbai 178 6 7 6 9 Miranda House, Delhi 174
5 5 8 5 St. Joseph’s College (Autonomous), NR NR 7 9 Sacred Heart College, Thevara, Kochi,
Bengaluru 178 Ernakulam 174
7 8 8 5 Mithibai College, Mumbai 178 NR NR 8 9 Ramnarain Ruia Autonomous College,
10 9 8 5 Madras Christian College, Chennai 178 Mumbai 174
NR 9 8 5 St. Francis College for Women, Hyderabad 178 NR 10 10 9 Kirori Mal College, Delhi 174
NR NR 8 5 Presidency College, Bengaluru 178 NR NR NR 9 Stella Maris College, Chennai 174
NR NR 6 6 BK Birla College of Arts, Science & NR NR NR 9 Women’s Christian College, Chennai 174
Commerce, Kalyan, Mumbai 177 NR NR NR 9 Sunbeam College for Women,
NR NR 9 6 St. Joseph’s College, Devagiri, Kozhikode 177 Bhagwanpur, Varanasi 174
NR NR 7 7 Barrackpore Rastraguru Surendranath NR NR NR 10 Jyoti Nivas College, Bengaluru 173
College, Kolkata 176 NR NR NR 10 National College, Trichy 173

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