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We are delighted that MIT is ranked India #1 for our I’m happy to learn that St. Joseph’s Institute of Com-
biotech engineering programme. The diligent efforts munication & Media Studies (ICMS) has been ranked
“of our faculty and students to achieve academic “among India’s Top 10 media studies institutes in the
excellence has been rewarded. Sited within the state-of- comprehensive EducationWorld-C-fore survey. This top
the-art campus of the top-ranked Manipal Academy of ranking means that informed academics, students, and
Higher Education, our biotech students have excellent media leaders have taken notice of our excellent work,
opportunities to engage in inter-disciplinary research and we are grateful for their endorsement. I attribute our
projects with the university’s medical, life sciences, man- excellent performance to the 138-year-old legacy of St. Jo-
agement, among other schools. Moreover, our curriculum seph’s College, our dedicated and highly qualified faculty,
is designed with academic and industry inputs and our contemporary curriculums, excellent industry collabora-
laboratory facilities including the Technology Business tion and enabling infrastructure. Though because of the
Incubator and Bio-incubator are world-class, facilitating pandemic we are restrained from holding physical classes,
cutting edge research and development. Though the past we have switched to utilising best online technologies to
year has been challenging because of the pandemic, our conduct classes and have introduced MOOCs from EdX,
faculty and students smoothly and successfully switched Coursera, Swayam/NPTEL” — Rev. Dr. Richard Rego
to online learning” — Dr. D. Srikanth Rao (centre SJ (centre), director, St. Joseph’s Institute of Com-
right), director, Manipal Institute of Technology munication & Media Studies (ICMS), Bengaluru

Shiv Nadar University: B.Tech biotech India #4 LSR College for Women students: BA journalism India #1

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