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Parameters of excellence: India’s Top 10 Private Universities

o compile the EW India Private University Rankings of higher education excellence.
2021-22, C fore field researchers interviewed 2,122 The ‘research and innovation’ parameter was assigned
Tfaculty, 1,136 final year students and 883 industry highest weightage (300) indicating that respondents
managers countrywide, asking them to rate institutions on believe that the ability of faculty to engage in meaningful
ten parameters, viz, competence of faculty, faculty welfare research and development including publication of papers
and development, research and innovation, curriculum and in reputed international journals, is the most important
pedagogy (digital readiness), industry interface, placements criterion for assessing the educational capabilities of
record, infrastructure and facilities, internationalism, universities. Parameter rankings which highlight the prime
leadership/governance quality and range/diversity of strengths of highly ranked institutions are useful because
programmes offered. Further, the informed interviewees they enable students to select institutions whose priorities
were asked to assign weightage to each parameter. The dovetail with their own.
scores awarded by the respondents were totaled to rank The national ranking of Top 10 private universities
India’s Top 10 private universities under each parameter under all ten parameters, are set out below.

Rank Competence of faculty Rating Rank Curriculum & pedagogy Rating
2018 2019 2020 2021 (150) 2018 2019 2020 2021 (digital readiness) (100)

NR 4 4 1 OP Jindal Global University, Sonipat 147 1 1 1 1 Ashoka University, Sonipat 94
1 3 3 1 Birla Institute of Technology and 5 2 2 2 International Institute of Information
Science (BITS), Pilani 147 Technology (IIIT), Hyderabad 93
6 5 3 2 Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information & NR NR 2 3 Krea University, Sri City (AP) 92
Communication Technology, Gandhinagar 146 4 3 3 4 Birla Institute of Technology and Science
3 1 1 3 International Institute of Information (BITS), Pilani 91
Technology (IIIT), Hyderabad 145 NR NR NR 4 Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher
7 10 9 4 Shiv Nadar University, Gautam Buddha Education and Research (Deemed
Nagar 144 University), Chennai 91
7 8 8 5 Thapar Institute of Engineering & NR 4 4 5 Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information &
Technology (Deemed University) Patiala 143 Communication Technology, Gandhinagar 90
5 5 5 6 Manipal Academy of Higher Education, 3 4 4 5 Shiv Nadar University, Gautam Buddha
Karnataka 142 Nagar (UP) 90
2 1 2 6 Ashoka University, Sonipat 142 9 10 3 6 OP Jindal Global University, Sonipat 89
NR NR 10 6 Narsee Monjee Institute of Management 6 7 6 7 Manipal Academy of Higher Education,
Studies (NMIMS) Deemed University, Karnataka 88
Mumbai 142 7 8 7 8 Thapar Institute of Engineering &
9 8 7 7 Amity University, Noida 141 Technology (Deemed University), Patiala 87
NR NR NR 7 Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham 2 6 5 8 Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT)
(Deemed University), Coimbatore 141 University 87
NR NR NR 8 Symbiosis International (Deemed NR NR 8 9 Narsee Monjee Institute of Management
University), Pune 140 Studies (NMIMS) Deemed University,
NR NR 6 9 Krea University, Sri City (AP) 139 Mumbai 86
3 7 6 10 Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT) NR 8 9 10 Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham (Deemed
University 138 University), Coimbatore 85
NR NR NR 10 ICFAI Foundation for Higher Education NR NR NR 10 Symbiosis International (Deemed
(Deemed University), Hyderabad 138 University), Pune 85

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