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Cover Story EW India Private University Rankings 2025-26

experience for up to six months in
600 companies in India and abroad.
This ensures our graduates are fully
prepared to meaningfully contribute
to their employer companies from
day one. This explains our highest
scores under the parameter of indus-
try placements as also competence
of faculty and research and innova-
tion. In our campuses equipped with
globally comparable infrastructure
— as testified by our top score under
this parameter also — our students
are provided high quality industry-
aligned engineering and technology
education,” says Rao.
BITS-Pilani is followed by the
Vellore Institute of Technology
(never responsive to EW interview
requests) which has retained its #2 LPU's Mitttal (right): pedagogy revolution
rank in the 2025-26 EW league table
of India’s most admired private engi- outside classrooms through acquisi- Mittal.
neering universities. The low-profile tion of industry applicable skills. Beyond top table, other private
but well-reputed Thapar Institute LPU students are actively working engineering universities ranked
of Engineering & Technology, in labs and shopfloors, learning high among the Top 10 are SRM Insti-
Patiala which was jointly ranked productivity skills supplemented tute of Science & Technology,
#2 in 2024-25 is ranked #3 this year with classroom instruction. This new Chennai #6 (6); Dhirubhai Am-
followed by IIIT, Hyderabad at #4 system is working wonders. In its bani Institute of ICT, Gandhi-
(3) and the well-marketed Lovely annual report 2023-24, the Office of nagar, Gujarat #7 (4); SASTRA
Professional University (LPU), the Controller General of Patents & University, Thanjavur #8 (7);
Phagwara (Punjab) promoted to Design ranked LPU #1 countrywide Birla Institute, Mesra #9 (7) and
top table with #5 (6) ranking shared for the number of patent applica- Hindustan Institute of Technol-
with the fast rising BML Munjal tions — 1,418 — from academic in- ogy & Science, Chennai #10 (8).
University, Gurugram. stitutions and universities. Our new Beyond the Top 10, most institu-
“LPU’s steady rise in the EW curriculums and focus on research tions are ranked a notch or two be-
rankings from #8 in 2023-24 to #6 and innovation is resonating with low their 2024-25 rank in this year’s
in 2024-25 and #5 this year validates Indian industry. This year one of our EW league table of 40 sufficiently
sustained effort to re-imagine experi- graduates was hired on campus with well-known private engineering and
ential STEM education,” says Aman a starting pay package of Rs.2.5 crore technology universities.
Mittal, an alum of Thapar Institute and another with Rs.1 crore,” says The sole exception is the low-
of Engineering, Patiala and profile but supremely ambitious
Southampton (UK) universi- Plaksha University students: supremely ambitious Plaksha University, Mohali
ties and Vice President of LPU promoted to #19 (20). Plaksha U
(estb.2006) which has 35,000 which announced the launch of
students from 50 countries a new School of AI & Computer
mentored by 3,800 faculty on Science supported by the Har-
its muster rolls. ish & Bina Shah Foundation in
“In light of the dawn of the February, needs perhaps to take
AI age and disruptive technolo- a leaf out of the marketing and
gies, the time has come for a brand promotion strategy of the
pedagogy revolution in Indian top-ranked multidisciplinary Am-
higher education. In LPU we ity University, which within two
are implementing radical decades since it was established
pedagogies under which much has acquired a global profile and
of students’ learning happens reputation.

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