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he EducationWorld Grand Jury India Higher skills education and best academia-industry alliance.
Education Rankings were introduced in 2019 to Nominations were received from more than 500
Trecognise and acknowledge low-profile, media shy private and government higher education institutions
higher education institutions (HEIs) implementing best countrywide. To assess the evidence and rank nominated
practices. Juries comprising knowledgeable educationists institutions in each category, this year’s Grand Jury com-
were constituted to evaluate low-profile and newly prising eminent educationists Deepakkumar Mukad-
promoted private HEIs deserving recognition. am, chancellor’s nominee on the management council of
To select progressive higher education institutions University of Mumbai and founder, Academistan, an on-
across the country, we invited nominations from educa- line faculty networking platform, Dr. Hiren Ghelani, IT
tionists, individuals and HEIs themselves supported by entrepreneur (Softwisdom Infoway) and board of study
evidence of best practices in 12 categories — extraordinary member, Rajkot University and Dr. A.S. Seetharamu,
leadership, campus design excellence, quality of campus former professor of education at the Institute of Social
life, contemporary IT-enabled learning, student diversity, and Economic Change (ISEC), Bangalore was constituted.
sports and co-curricular education, promising future- The league tables of the EW Grand Jury India Higher
ready universities, professional education, vocational and Education Rankings 2021-22 are set out below.

New-age study programmes leader
Top 10 HEIs providing contemporary industry-aligned
study programmes.

Rank

India State City

1 1 1 Nagindas Khandwala College, Malad, Mumbai
2 1 1 Jagran Lakecity University, Bhopal
3 1 1 Shoolini University, Bajhol (HP)
4 1 1 Dr. CV Raman University, Bilaspur (Chhattisgarh)
5 1 1 Hindustan Institute of Technology & Science
(Deemed University), Chennai
6 1 1 World University of Design, Sonipat
7 1 1 The Heritage College, Kolkata
8 2 2 BK Shroff College of Arts & MH Shroff College of programmes in international martial arts, marketing
Commerce (Autonomous), Kandivali (W), Mumbai management, a B.Sc programme in computer science
9 1 1 Aspee College of Home Science and Nutrition with specialisation in artificial intelligence, machine
(Sardarkrushinagar Dantiwada Agricultural University), learning, cloud technology and information security
Banaskantha (Gujarat) plus a new M.Sc in interior design, tourism & travel
10 2 1 Institute of Agriculture Sciences, SAGE University, Indore management. These new-age industry demand-linked
study programmes have been enthusiastically welcomed
We are delighted to learn that NKC is ranked #1 in by students and we have had great success in placing
this category by your knowledgeable jury. This award our graduates in top corporates such as Wipro, Infosys,
“is the outcome of our faculty and students always Sutherland, etc” — Dr. Ancy Jose (centre left), princi-
being open to innovation and experimentation, and we pal, Nagindas Khandwala College (Autonomous),
routinely introduce new study programmes. For instance, Mumbai (estb.1983), which currently has an enrolment
during the past decade we have introduced BBA degree of 4,659 students and 150 faculty

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