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EW INDIA HIGHER EDUCATION RANKINGS 2022-23
TOP 500

ARTS, SCIENCE & COMMERCE

COLLEGES

To inspire, aid and enable class XII students to select the most
suitable undergrad colleges, since 2018 EducationWorld has
been rating India’s Top 500 Arts, Science and Commerce, and
Engineering colleges on several critical parameters of education
excellence and ranking them in separate categories

Dilip Thakore

N OW THAT THE NOVEL Coronavi- Even though syllabuses have been pruned, school-leavers

have anxious times ahead. They have to score high marks
rus pandemic which forced the
longest disruption and closure of
in their chosen streams to ensure they enter the country’s
education institutions from pre-
best undergrad arts, science, commerce and engineering
colleges.
primaries to universities (March
2020-February 2022) in India, is
Inevitably, in a nation which has foolishly under-invest-
over, and the world’s largest, na-
tional population of children and ed in education and human capital development, competi-
tion for admission into the Top 500 of the country’s 45,000
youth is streaming back into campuses at the fag end of the undergrad colleges and 1,005 universities is intense. The
academic year 2021-22, all that remains for online school- total number of India’s higher secondary school-leavers per
leavers is to write their class X and XII board exams. How year is estimated at 12 million. Against this, the Top 500
well they perform in these vitally important exams will can at best admit 500,000 top-scoring school-leavers from
determine their junior college and undergrad education across the country. To aspire to enter the best colleges, top-
destinations. pers need to know which are the country’s most-respected
According to all indications, after almost two years of undergrad education institutions.
online learning, all board exams will have to be written of- Therefore to inspire, aid and enable class XII students to
fline in designated examination centres this month (April). select and aim for most suitable undergrad colleges, since

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