Page 6 - EW April 2025

From the

Editor
THE HUMAN DEVELOPMENT MAGAZINE

Volume X X VI No.4

BOARD OF ADVISORS
N.R. Narayana Murthy, H.V. Gowthama, Shukla T
Bose, Dr. Glenn Christo, Dr. R. Natarajan he dawn of the new era of Artificial Intelligence heralds a tech-
(Bangalore); Adi Godrej, Dr. Augustine Pinto, nology evolution inflection point for India’s academy. The coun-
Guilherme Vaz, Ketan Gala, Kirit Mehta, Balkishan
Sharma (Mumbai); Dr. Ramdas Pai (Manipal); try’s higher education institutions, especially the professoriate
Prof. Geeta Kingdon (Lucknow); Rajiv Desai, Dr. has to not only quickly master AI technologies but harness them
Parth Shah, Jeroninio Almeida (Delhi); Dr. Kannan
Gireesh (Chennai); Robindra Subba (Kurseong); to engineer technology breakthroughs and innovations urgently
Sanjeev Bolia (Kolkata); Dr. Achyuta Samanta required to power massive productivity leaps in the Indian economy — agri-
(Bhubaneswar); Yogi Kochhar (Dharamshala); culture, industry and government.
Shyama Thakore (London)
Against this backdrop, we present Part-I of our annual EducationWorld
EDITOR India Higher Education Rankings 2025-26 in which we rate India’s best uni-
Dilip Thakore
versities segregated into eight categories (to rank apples with apples) under
MANAGING EDITOR eight-ten parameters of higher education excellence. Our partner for this
Summiya Yasmeen
exercise is the Bengaluru-based AZ Research Partners Ltd, a highly-reputed
CHIEF SUB-EDITOR market research company. AZR interviewed 2,100 sample respondents
Sundar Anand (comprising HEI faculty, students and industry leaders countrywide) who
Paromita Sengupta, Reshma Ravishanker, Gopi rated universities/HEIs. Scores awarded by sample respondents under the
Chand N, (Bangalore), Autar Nehru (Delhi)
9868256512, Baishali Mukherjee (Kolkata) parameters were totaled to rank them in each category.
9836491981, Shivani Chaturvedi (Chennai) Although universities/HEIs featured in the EW league tables struggle (es-
9500506102
pecially since we exclude the well-respected IITs and IIMs) to feature in the
CHIEF EXECUTIVE Top 200 global rankings of highly-respected offshore varsity ranking agen-
Bhavin Shah +91 9867382867
cies like QS, THE, Financial Times, they are India’s most respected HEIs and
MARKETING offer best hope of ideating and innovating game-changer technologies and
Vice President — Sales: Tejas Pattni 9022487997 socio-economic reforms that India urgently needs to attain the national goals
West: Aasana Jain 9820319127
South: Poonam Shah 9731966373 of Viksit Bharat and $30 trillion GDP by 2047.
E-mail: marketing@educationworld.in This issue also marks an inflection point for this pioneer publication in
GRAPHICS the education space promoted 25 years ago to “… make education the #1
Chandrashekar L. item on the national agenda”. In a first for an Indian media publication, we
Kotresh Y
have ventured abroad to rate and rank America’s Best Universities. For this
SUBSCRIPTIONS unprecedented venture, we have partnered with Launchpad Rankings Llc, a
Mithun Jadhav: 9108225694/ company promoted by Raymond Ravaglia, a US-based education veteran and
080 43711141
sub@educationworld.in former Dean and director of Stanford University Pre-Collegiate Studies. With
India’s 3.3 lakh school and college-leavers enrolled in America’s colleges/
ONE YEAR SUBSCRIPTION: RS.2500
OVERSEAS SUBSCRIPTION: USD100 universities having surpassed China’s last year, selecting the most suitable
Cheques/drafts in favour of DT Media & HEIs in the US — a life-changing decision — is of critical importance to In-
Entertainment Pvt. Ltd. Bangalore
dian students headed West. And with larger cohorts of Indian school-leavers
EDITORIAL signing up with American universities for undergrad education, the focus of
C3-36, 3rd Floor, Devatha Plaza the inaugural EW-Launchpad Rankings 2025 is on undergraduate education.
131 Residency Road, Bangalore 560 025. We believe that university rankings published by QS, THE, FT among others,
Tel: 080 22480880; Fax: 2227 5962;
E-mail: editorial@educationworld.in accord too much weightage to parameters such as research, faculty citations,
Printed and published by Dilip Thakore on behalf admissions selectivity, internationalism — factors of peripheral value to un-
of DT Media & Entertainment Pvt. Ltd. dergrad students. That’s the differentiator of the inaugural EW-Launchpad
Printed at Rajhans Enterprises, 134, 4th Main, In- Rankings of America’s Best Universities 2025.
dustrial Town, Rajajinagar, Bangalore-44. Published Looking forward to your feedback!
at C3-36, 3rd Floor, Devatha Plaza, 131 Residency
Road. Bangalore 560 025.
Editor Dilip Thakore.
RNI No. KARENG/1999/00234
Website: www.educationworld.in

6 EDUCATIONWORLD APRIL 2025