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THE HUMAN DEVELOPMENT MAGAZINE Editor

Volume X XI No.5

BOARD OF ADVISORS A s far back as I can remember, India’s higher education sector
has been a big disappointment. The quality of human resource
N.R. Narayana Murthy, H.V. Gowthama, Shukla
Bose, Dr. Glenn Christo, Dr. R. Natarajan, Anand finished by the country’s institutions of higher education is woe-
Sudarshan (Bangalore); Dr. F.C. Kohli, Mala ful. This is especially true of liberal arts and humanities gradu-
Ramadorai, Adi Godrej, Dr. Augustine Pinto,
Krishan Khanna, Guilherme Vaz, Ketan Gala, ates certified by the great majority of India’s 935 universities. It
Kirit Mehta (Mumbai); Dr. Ramdas Pai (Manipal); would not be inaccurate to state that the overwhelming majority
Dr. Geeta Kingdon (Lucknow); Rajiv Desai, Dr. of them, even postgrads, are deficient in linear thinking, logical reasoning,
Parth Shah, Jeroninio Almeida, Premchand Palety
(Delhi); Robindra Subba (Kurseong); Sanjeev Bolia basic research, and communication and presentation skills. I’m aware this
(Kolkata); Dr. Achyuta Samanta (Bhubaneswar); sounds like intellectual snobbery, and I apologise for it. But as founding edi-
Shyama akore (London) tor of three pioneer sui generis print magazines (Business India, Business-

world and EducationWorld) I have suffered frustration and deep anguish
EDITOR because of poor quality of human resources recklessly certified by even top-
Dilip akore
ranked Indian — and sometimes foreign — universities.
MANAGING EDITOR Unfortunately the normative Bollywood portrayal of colleges and univer-
Summiya Yasmeen
sities as great places to ridicule authority, bunk classes, and harass women
CHIEF SUB EDITOR students into romantic liaisons, rather than great places to study, is substan-
Sundar Anand
Paromita Sengupta, Jeswant J.M, Gopi Chand tially true to life. Curiously, higher learning is widely regarded as an exten-
N, Shraddha Goled (Bangalore), Autar Nehru sion of school education rather than a transition into adulthood, self-disci-
(Delhi) 9868256512, Baishali Mukherjee (Kolkata) pline and self-governance. Such infantalisation of adults in higher education
9836491981, Hemalatha Raghupathi (Chennai) 4380 is also a contributory cause of inadequately developed graduates certified
0085, Dipta Joshi (Mumbai) 9920243111
as work-ready by post-independence India’s higher education institutions.
CHIEF EXECUTIVE
Bhavin Shah +91 9867382867 Therefore they seldom find mention in the league tables of the world’s Top
200-300 universities published annually by the London-based university
MARKETING ranking agencies QS and Times Higher Education.
West: Tejas Pattni (General Manager) 9022487997
E-mail: marketing@educationworld.in Against this dismal backdrop, the emergence in post-liberalisation India
Shruti Srivasatava +91 98216 66019 of new genre multidisciplinary private universities, some of them modelled
South India: S. Vijaya Lakshmi 98456 80696 on premier Ivy league institutions of America, has come as a stream of
Poonam Shah 9731966373
North: Hannan Ahmed 9810302768 reviving oxygen for your editors, and India’s 200 million-strong aspirational
middle class as well. They provide first-world education at prices that are a
GRAPHICS
Suresh K. fraction of fees levied by tertiary institutions in the US, UK and Common-
SUBSCRIPTIONS wealth countries. Therefore we have been rating and ranking them separately
Ajay Kumar: 9108225694/ for the past few years.
080 43711141 Last month (April) despite the constraints posed by the Corona 2.0
sub@educationworld.in lockdown, we published detailed league tables of the country’s top private
ONE YEAR SUBSCRIPTION: RS.1700 autonomous, government autonomous, Top 100 non-autonomous undergrad
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C3-36, 3rd Floor, Devatha Plaza This issue ranking the country’s Top 300 private and government univer-
131 Residency Road, Bangalore 560 025. sities and Top 100 private B-schools, completes the EducationWorld India
Tel: 080 22480880; Fax: 2227 5962; Higher Education Rankings 2020-21 survey — the most comprehensive in
E-mail: editorial@educationworld.in
Website: www.educationworld.in the history of Indian education. Readers, particularly school-leavers are ad-
Printed and published by Dilip akore on behalf vised to study these league tables carefully. They could deeply influence your
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