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TOP-RANKED UNIVERSITIES

PRIVATE GOVERNMENT
1 M a n i p a l A c a d e m y o f H i g h e r E d u c a t i o n , K a r n a t a k a 1 I n d i a n I n s t i t u t e o f S c i e n c e ( I I S c ) , B a n g a l o r e
2 B i r l a I n s t i t u t e o f T e c h n o l o g y a n d S c i e n c e ( B I T S ) , P i l a n i 2 T a t a I n s t i t u t e o f F u n d a m e n t a l R e s e a r c h ( T I F R ) , M u m b a i
3 A m i t y U n i v e r s i t y , N o i d a 3 J a w a h a r l a l N e h r u U n i v e r s i t y ( J N U ) , D e l h i
3 A s h o k a U n i v e r s i t y , S o n i p a t 4 U n i v e r s i t y o f D e l h i
4 O P J i n d a l G l o b a l U n i v e r s i t y , S o n i p a t 5 A n n a U n i v e r s i t y , C h e n n a i
4 I n t e r n a t i o n a l I n s t i t u t e o f I n f o r m a t i o n T e c h n o l o g y ( I I I T ) , H y d e r a b a d 6 P a n j a b U n i v e r s i t y , C h a n d i g a r h
5 D h i r u b h a i A m b a n i I n s t i t u t e o f I n f o r m a t i o n a n d C o m m u n i c a t i o n 7 J a d a v p u r U n i v e r s i t y , K o l k a t a
T e c h n o l o g y , G a n d h i n a g a r 8 B a n a r a s H i n d u U n i v e r s i t y
5 V e l l o r e I n s t i t u t e o f T e c h n o l o g y ( V I T ) U n i v e r s i t y 9 I n s t i t u t e o f C h e m i c a l T e c h n o l o g y , M u m b a i
6 S h a n m u g h a A r t s , S c i e n c e , T e c h n o l o g y & R e s e a r c h A c a d e m y 10 U n i v e r s i t y o f M u m b a i
( S A S T R A ) D e e m e d U n i v e r s i t y , T h a n j a v u r 10 U n i v e r s i t y o f H y d e r a b a d
6 S R M I n s t i t u t e o f S c i e n c e a n d T e c h n o l o g y , C h e n n a i
7 T h a p a r I n s t i t u t e o f E n g i n e e r i n g & T e c h n o l o g y ( D e e m e d U n i v e r s i t y ) ,
P a t i a l a
8 N a r s e e M o n j e e I n s t i t u t e o f M a n a g e m e n t S t u d i e s ( N M I M S ) D e e m e d e mushrooming of a host of
U n i v e r s i t y , M u m b a i privately promoted, academically
8 A m r i t a V i s h w a V i d y a p e e t h a m ( D e e m e d U n i v e r s i t y ) , C o i m b a t o r e
9 I C F A I F o u n d a t i o n f o r H i g h e r E d u c a t i o n , H y d e r a b a d and financially autonomous
9 S h i v N a d a r U n i v e r s i t y , G a u t a m B u d d h a N a g a r ( U P ) universities is heaven sent for
10 S y m b i o s i s I n t e r n a t i o n a l ( D e e m e d U n i v e r s i t y ) , P u n e
India’s aspirational middle class

#184 — featured in the QS Top 200 under the Constitution) is heaven sent although the Birla Institute of Tech-
(cf. China’s seven). for India’s aspirational middle class nology & Science (BITS)-Pilani was
In the latest THE WUR, the high- which reportedly spends $10 billion awarded autonomy way back in 1964
est ranked Indian university is IISc (Rs.75,831 crore) on very expensive and the Manipal Academy of Higher
and IIT-Ropar in the #301-350 band. US, British and Commonwealth edu- Education in 1993, these de j ure uni-
Another half a dozen are ranked in cation for its progeny. versities are pettily prohibited from
lower bands. Although in 1949 when After the historic initial liberalisa- describing themselves as such. They
communist party rule began in China, tion and deregulation of the Indian are obliged to define themselves in
India’s universities were among the economy in 1991, the Karnataka- the clumsy phrase “deemed-to-be-
most well-reputed in Asia, in THE based Manipal Academy of Higher university”. MAHE which legitimate-
WUR 2020, the People’s Republic has Education (estb.1953) was awarded ly named itself Manipal University
seven ranked in the Top 200 deemed university status in 1993 by was directed to describe itself as a
This depressing deficit in the UGC. Subsequently, several private deemed-to-be-university in all adver-
higher education system controlled universities including Amity (2005), tising and official correspondence. In
and confined by the Central govern- Jindal Global (2009), Ahmedabad 2017 the management resolved to re-
ment and its entrenched handmaiden (2010), Ashoka (2014), Shiv Nadar turn to the title of MAHE.
supervisory agencies has survived (2011), BML Munjal (2014) and Ben- Even though in its landmark verdict
the reform recommendations of sev- nett universities, among others, were in T.M.A . Pai F oundation vs. U nion of
eral high powered committees and launched. Although these new genre India (2002), reversing earlier judge-
commissions including the Yash Pal well-endowed private universities ments, the Supreme Court ruled that
(1993), T.S.R. Subramanian (2016) were established in north India, in engaging in the vocation of education
and Kasturirangan (2019) commit- 2019, Krea University, sited in Sri City is the fundamental right of all citi-
tees — the recommendations of the (Andhra Pradesh), peninsular India’s zens, hostility is widespread toward
latter are under prolonged consider- first new genre privately-promoted private initiatives in higher education
ation of the HRD ministry. Therefore liberal arts and sciences varsity admit- — indeed all education — the natural
the mushrooming of a host of pri- ted its first batch of students. outcome of gobbledygook Nehruvian
vately promoted, academically and The powerful Delhi-based estab- economics which essentially over-sub-
financially autonomous universities lishment has not taken kindly to the sidises higher education for the urban
enabled by state government legisla- entry of private universities into the middle class at the expense of public,
tion (education is a concurrent subject higher education domain. For one, i.e, government schools which are in

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