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ARTS, SCIENCE & COMMERCE COLLEGES

PRIVATE AUTONOMOUS GOVERNMENT AUTONOMOUS NON-AUTONOMOUS
1 St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai 1 Maharaja’s College, Ernakulam 1 St. Stephen’s College, Delhi
2 St. Joseph’s College, 2 Sarojini Naidu Government Girls PG 2 Shri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi
Bangalore College, Bhopal 3 Lady Shri Ram College for Women, Delhi
3 Madras Christian College, Chennai 3 Government Holkar (Model, Autonomous) 4 Hindu College, Delhi
4 Mount Carmel College, Bangalore Science College, Indore 5 Miranda House, Delhi
5 Mithibai College, Mumbai 4 Government Science College, Bangalore 6 Sri Venkateswara College, Delhi
5 RA Podar College of Commerce & 5 Dr. VS Krishna Government Degree 7 Narsee Monjee College of Commerce &
Economics, Mumbai College, Visakhapatnam Economics, Mumbai
6 St. Ann’s College for Women, Hyderabad 6 Government Mankunwar Bai Arts & 8 Hansraj College, Delhi
6 St. Xaviers College, Kolkata Commerce (Autonomous) College for 9 University College of Arts & Social
7 St. Francis College for Women, Women, Jabalpur Science, Osmania University, Hyderabad
Hyderabad 7 Mata Jijabai Government Girls PG 10 Jesus & Mary College, Delhi
7 Rajagiri College of Social Sciences, Kochi College, Indore
8 Loyola College, Chennai 8 Government Maharani Laxmi Bai Girls
9 Loyola Academy Degree and PG College, PG Autonomous College, Bhopal
Hyderabad 8 Government Degree College for Women, velopment.
10 Andhra Loyola College, Vijayawada Begumpet, Hyderabad Since unlike in the other two seg-
9 Government College for Women, ments of the education continuum,
Srikakulam i.e, early childhood and primary-
Prudently, developed OECD countries 9 Dodla Kausalyamma Government secondary education, we were not the
routinely allocate 6-12 percent of GDP College for Women, Nellore pioneers in ranking higher education
per year for public education. 10 Govt. VYT (PG) Autonomous College, institutions — several publications no-
Durg

Last month in the annual post- 10 Government Arts & Science College, tably India Today, Outlook and Eco-
budget issue of EducationWorld, your Karwar (Karnataka) nomic Times started publishing col-
editors presented a detailed schema/ lege, university and B-school league
calculus outlining ways and means for tables before us — for the past few
the Union government to mobilise an sion statement (“to build the pressure years EducationWorld has been rank-
additional Rs.6 lakh crore for invest- of public opinion to make education ing privately-promoted higher educa-
ment in public education, and Rs.2 the #1 item on the national agenda”) tion institutions. With admission into
lakh crore in public primary health. obliges us to accord highest impor- Central government institutions such
In the unlikely event of this schema tance to the promotion and nurtur- as the IITs, IIMs, NITs and 49 Central
being accepted, the Central govern- ance of excellent institutions in pre- universities requiring sky-high cut-
ment’s outlay for education would primary to postgraduate university offs in higher secondary school leav-
increase to Rs.7.22 lakh crore, equiv- education. ing examinations, private colleges and
alent to 3.18 percent of GDP (Rs.227 Therefore way back in 2007, we universities ranked in the dedicated
lakh crore) and the outlay for public promoted the annual EducationWorld annual EducationWorld India Private
primary health to Rs.2.65 lakh crore India School Rankings (every Septem- Higher Education Rankings serve a
(1.16 percent of GDP). Significantly, ber) to stimulate healthy competition very useful social purpose by way of
although EW’s additional resource among schools in different categories offering alternatives to thousands of
mobilisation plan for public education to excel across 14 parameters of edu- school-leavers who don’t make the cut
and health was sent to over a dozen cation excellence, including academ- for admission into the handful of gov-
nationally renowned economists (and ics. In 2010, driven by the same logic ernment tertiary institutions which
Niti Aayog, the Central government’s we pioneered the EducationWorld provide acceptable quality education.
think tank) with an invitation for India Preschool Rankings (December) However in a departure from tra-
comment and critique, none of them and in 2013 the annual Education- dition, on the advice of several mem-
has responded. Indifference towards World India Higher Education Rank- bers of our Board of Advisors and
public education is pervasive in Indian ings. We believe that acknowledging, eminent academics, in this issue we
society where high productivity, the felicitating and celebrating education present league tables rating private
outcome of good education, seems to institutions which provide innova- autonomous, government autono-
be a peripheral issue. tive, high-quality holistic education mous colleges and the country’s Top
Your editors are exceptions to this to develop the multiple intelligences 100 non-autonomous colleges sepa-
rule. Indeed the raison d’etre of this of the country’s children and youth is rately on five common parameters of
publication encapsulated in our mis- the best prescription for national de- collegiate excellence, viz, competence

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