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readiness; industry placements; in- er-CEO of C fore. An experienced
frastructure and facilities, and lead- market research and opinion polls
ership and governance quality. The professional who began his career
scores awarded to the country’s most with ORG, India’s pioneer retail mar-
reputed 500 Arts, Science and Com- ket research firm of the 1970s-2000,
merce (ASC) colleges by sample re- Palety, an alum of Punjab Engineer-
spondents under the six parameters ing College and Delhi’s FORE School
were totaled to rank India’s best ASC of Management, went solo with the
colleges. All parameters are accorded promotion of C fore in the millennium
equal weightage, except the critically year. Since then, the company which
important parameter of competence has 20 corporate clients countrywide
of faculty, accorded double weightage has acquired several decades of ex-
of 200. perience of conducting field research
and opinion polls. C fore’s clients in-
“ TO CONSTITUTE AN ad- clude Nestle, several political parties
equate size sample respon-
and Hindustan Times.
dents’ database, our field
In the pages following, we present
personnel interviewed 1,789 Palety: necessary segregation India’s Top 200 private autonomous,
faculty and 2,278 final year students Top 100 government autonomous
of Arts, Science and Commerce col- best government autonomous, private and Top 100 non-autonomous Arts,
leges and requested them to award autonomous and Top 100 non-auton- Science and Commerce colleges. We
scores under all six parameters of omous Arts, Science and Commerce believe that these league tables will
excellence to institutions other than colleges. Segregation of colleges into aid and enable parents and school-
their own. The scores awarded by the these categories is necessary to avoid leavers to choose the most suitable
respondents under each parameter to apples and oranges type evaluation,” liberal arts higher education institu-
colleges were totaled to rank India’s says Premchand Palety, the found- tions for further study.

EWIHER 2022 23 COUNTRYWIDE SURVEY

Metro cities
Tier II, III & IV cities
(189 cities)

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