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ment of Nagaland. EW April) — Editor
This categorisation mistake has
created utter confusion in the public
and amongst all the stakeholders in Top rank stimulus
the state. Therefore, I request you to IT WAS a pleasure to read that
correct this error at the earliest. Maharaja’s College, Ernakulam is
Dr. Lily S ema ranked #1 in the EW Government
Principal, Kohima Science Col- Autonomous College Rankings
lege, JOTSOMA 2020-21 (EW April). We are highly
motivated by this recognition. It will
K ohima S cience College has b een surely inspire us to work harder to
reclassified and ranked #12 in the maintain our top rank.
Government Autonomous Colleges Dr. K. Jayakumar
Rankings league table published Special Grade Principal
online (see www.educationworld. Maharaja’s College, ERNAKULAM
in) — Editor
APRIL 2020
Glaring omission
Methodology query YOUR EW Higher Education Rank-
MY HEARTFELT congratulations to ings 2020-21 makes no sense if you
Baffling paradox you for ranking the country’s autono- ignore and don’t rank universities
CONGRATULATIONS FOR your mous colleges separately. I sincerely that provide world-class commerce
pioneer initiative of ranking the appreciate your efforts to include education. Bangalore hosts excellent
country’s autonomous and non- Vimala College, Thrissur in your private universities — Christ and
autonomous colleges separately (EW private autonomous colleges league Jain universities which provide the
April). As you rightly argue, autono- table. We are happy that our college best commerce education. They are
mous colleges are a class apart and has been ranked #58 nationwide and not in your league tables.
need to be ranked separately. #11 in Kerala. If you want to educate people
Nevertheless, I’m baffled that However, I am unsure about the about the best higher ed institutions
some of India’s routinely top-ranked process and variables used to arrive in India, you need to rank deemed to
colleges sited in the national capital at the rankings. Our college did not be universities too.
— St. Stephen’s, Miranda, Sri Ram submit any documents nor was any Preetham on E-MAIL
College of Commerce — have not yet verification done from your side.
been granted academic and admin- Please enlighten me on your method- As indicated in my letter from the
istrative autonomy under UGC’s ology of data collection and verifica- editor (p.4), league tables of India’s
archaic rules and regulations. These tion, and the data source. best private universities, govern-
colleges with excellent track records Lims Thomas ment universities and private
— “tied to the apron strings of Delhi Faculty, Department of Social B-schools are scheduled to be
University” — should be awarded Work, Vimala College (Autono- published in the current (May) issue
autonomy immediately. mous), THRISSUR — Editor
Maria G onsalves
MUMBAI As detailed in our cover story, the
EW India Private Autonomous Misclassification
Colleges Rankings 2020-21 is based IN THE EW Non-autonomous Col-
Classification error on perceptual scores awarded on leges Rankings 2020-21 you have
RE THE EW Private Autonomous five parameters of higher educa- wrongly classified Ramkrishna
Colleges Rankings 2020-21, Kohima tion excellence by 4,813 sample Mission Vivekananda Centenary
Science College is ranked in the respondents including college/uni- College, Rahara, Kolkata as a non-
category of private autonomous col- versity faculty and final year college autonomous college. Please note it is
leges at #75 with a total score of 473. students who rated India’s Top 500 a private autonomous college.
The fact of the matter is that ours is colleges — private autonomous, Monojit Ray
a government autonomous college government autonomous and non- Principal, Barrackpore Rastraguru
with a NAAC CGPA score of 3.42 autonomous. The data source is the Surendranath College, BARRACK-
under administration of the depart- UGC list of approved autonomous PORE
ment of higher education, govern- colleges as on 28.06.2019 (see p.32 We regret the error — Editor

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