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ARTS, SCIENCE & COMMERCE COLLEGES

PRIVATE AUTONOMOUS GOVERNMENT AUTONOMOUS NON-AUTONOMOUS

1 St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai 1 Government Science College, 1 St. Stephen’s College, Delhi
2 St Joseph’s College (Autonomous), Nrupathunga Road, Bengaluru 2 Shri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi
Bengaluru 2 Maharaja’s College, Ernakulam, Kochi 3 Lady Shri Ram College for Women, Delhi
3 Narsee Monjee College of Commerce & 3 Yuvaraja’s College, Mysuru 4 Hindu College, Delhi
Economics, Mumbai 3 Osmania University, College for Women, 5 Miranda House, Delhi
4 Mount Carmel College, Bengaluru Hyderabad 6 Hansraj College, Delhi
4 Mithibai College, Mumbai 4 Presidency College, Chennai 7 KPB Hinduja College of Commerce,
5 Loyola College, Chennai 5 Government Degree College for Women, Mumbai
6 RA Podar College of Commerce & Begumpet, Hyderabad 8 Sri Venkateswara College, Delhi
Economics, Mumbai 6 Maharani’s Science College for Women, 9 Jesus & Mary College, Delhi
7 Rajagiri College of Social Sciences, Kochi Mysuru 10 University College of Arts & Social
7 KJ Somaiya College of Arts and 7 Sarojini Naidu Government Girls PG Science, Osmania University, Hyderabad
Commerce, Mumbai College, Bhopal 10 Barrackpore Rastraguru Surendranath
8 Madras Christian College, Chennai 8 Government Holkar (Model Autonomous) College, Kolkata
9 St. Ann’s College for Women, Hyderabad Science College, Indore
9 St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata 9 Government Arts, Commerce and
10 BK Birla College of Arts, Science & Postgraduate College -—Autonomous,
Commerce, Kalyan, Mumbai Hassan
10 Nagindas Khandwala College, Malad (W), 10 Government Bilasa Girls PG Autonomous ogy) which routinely dominate engi-
Mumbai College, Bilaspur neering league tables of other publica-
10 Government VYT PG Autonomous
College, Durg tions year after year, and require steep
cut-offs for entry, are eliminated from
2018 EducationWorld has been rat- the EW league tables.
ing India’s Top 500 Arts, Science and Similarly our B-school rankings
Commerce, and Engineering colleges cal and accessibility reasons, unlike eliminate the capital intensive Central
on several critical parameters of edu- other publications, we rank public and government-promoted IIMs (Indian
cation excellence and ranking them private higher ed institutions (HEIs) Institutes of Management) which rou-
inter se. In addition for the past nine separately. The rationale of this sepa- tinely top all media rankings. Instead,
years, we have also been ranking the ration is that government HEIs pro- we rate and rank private B-schools
country’s Top 300 universities and vide highly subsidised education and which are more accessible and afford-
100 private B-schools. The prime ob- therefore, tend to be the first choice able. These carefully weighed consid-
jective of this elaborate exercise which of school-leavers. However because erations differentiate the annual Edu-
involves field interviews spread over the number of high quality (Central cationWorld India Higher Education
three months with more than 4,000 government) HEIs is very limited and Rankings from the tediously deja vu
informed sample respondents (fac- they foolishly levy universal (instead HEI rankings of other media publica-
ulty and final year students) is to aid of targeted) rock-bottom fees, their tions.
and assist top ranked school-leavers admission cut-off marks are sky-high Against this backdrop, we commis-
to choose the most aptitudinally suit- and annual intake of students is very sioned the well-reputed, Delhi-based
able higher learning institutions for limited. market research and opinion polls
continuing their education. Therefore, the majority of school- company Centre for Forecasting &
Admittedly, several other publica- leavers are obliged to choose between Research Pvt. Ltd (C fore, estb.2000)
tions including India Today, some poor quality state government colleges to poll well-informed educators and
business magazines and dailies also and relatively high-fees private col- senior students countrywide to rate
publish league tables rating and rank- leges/universities, and tend to prefer India’s best Arts, Science and Com-
ing the country’s best higher education the latter which are separate and dis- merce colleges sub-divided into three
institutions. But we believe as an ex- tinct. Hence we rank them in separate categories — private autonomous,
clusively education-focused magazine league tables. For the same reason in government autonomous and non-
of greater depth and experience of the the EW league table of engineering autonomous — on six benchmark
education sector, EducationWorld is colleges, the highly subsidised 22 parameters of higher education ex-
better qualified to provide context Central government-promoted Indian cellence, viz, competence of faculty;
and analysis of our carefully curated Institutes of Technology (IITs) and 31 faculty welfare and development; cur-
league tables. Moreover, for ideologi- NITs (National Institutes of Technol- riculum & pedagogy, including digital

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