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ment autonomous, Top 100 non-
autonomous and Top 100 private
engineering colleges. In this issue
we present discrete league tables
ranking the country’s Top 150 most
reputed private universities, Top 150
government universities and Top
100 B-schools.
To conduct the EW India Private
University Rankings 2020-21 sur-
vey, over 150 field personnel of the
highly-reputed Delhi-based market
research and opinion polls company
Centre for Forecasting & Research
Pvt. Ltd (C fore, estb.2000), inter-
viewed 4,168 sample respondents
comprising 2,214 faculty and 1,126 fi-
nal year students of 162 universities,
and 828 industry representatives in
25 cities countrywide. Ashoka University VC Mallabika Sarkar (seated right): satisfying parameter scores
They were requested to award
private universities they are familiar estb. 1953), a deemed university, is ing that its location off the beaten
with, scores of 1-300 on ten param- ranked the country’s #1 private var- track is a disadvantage, he believes
eters of higher education excellence, sity for the fifth year consecutively, that it’s a plus point.
viz , faculty competence faculty followed by the B irl a I n s titu te of “The perceived geographical dis-
welfare & development, research and S c ie n c e & T e c h n ol og y , P il a n i advantage of MAHE is notional. Our
innovation, curriculum and peda- (estb. 1964) ranked second for the 25,000 students are from as many
gogy, industry interface, placements, fifth year. as 70 countries and from every state
infrastructure, internationalism, Both these universities are situ- of the Indian Union. In our scenic
leadership/governance and range ated in small towns — “out in the campus spread over 600 acres, we
and diversity of study programs boondocks, far away from India’s offer state-of-the-art infrastructure
offered. Higher weightage is given academically happening metro cit- and global connectivity, as indicated
to the critical parameters of faculty ies” — in the words of a trendy top by our top score under the infra-
competence (150), infrastructure executive of a transnational educa- structure parameter. Therefore we
(150), and research and innovation tion consultancy firm. Nevertheless don’t experience any difficulty in at-
(300). this year’s 4,168 sample respondents tracting excellent faculty and foreign
“This year’s rankings league have awarded MAHE top scores un- students,” says Bhat who modestly
tables are based on a mix of factual der the parameters of infrastructure, declined to comment on this top-
objective criteria and perceptions leadership and diversity of study ranked university’s #1 ranking under
of knowledgeable sample respon- programmes, and second highest the parameter of leadership and
dents. Objective data has been culled under the high weightage parameter governance.
from papers published by faculty in of research and innovation, ranking Although MAHE has built
refereed journals, and number of it India’s #1 private university by a an international reputation as a
citations was obtained from second- comfortable margin. professional education (medicine,
ary sources including the Scopus D r. H . V in od B h a t, the unas- engineering, pharmacology, busi-
index. Twenty percent weightage is suming vice chancellor who has ness management, law etc) institu-
given to publications and citations in played a major role in consolidating tion during its first 50-60 years (25
refereed journals worldwide,” says MAHE’s reputation as India’s most percent of medical practitioners in
P re m c h a n d P a l e ty , founder CEO admired private university, is grati- Malaysia are reportedly graduates
of C fore. fied this globally reputed institution, of the university’s Kasturba Medi-
Against this backdrop, it’s a mat- which has fought many battles in cal College), in recent years it has
ter of surprise to some metropolitan courts of law and in the corridors of evolved into a full-fledged multi-
monitors of India’s higher education power in Delhi to win its university disciplinary university. “While we
sector that the M a n ip a l A c a de m y status, is ranked #1 for the fifth year have full-fledged programmes in
of H ig h e r Edu c a tion (M A H E, in succession. And far from accept- the health sciences and engineering,

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