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MIT Art, Design & Technology
University, Pune. JGU is awarded
highest score under nine of the 10
parameters ideated by your editors
as hallmarks of higher education
excellence.
“I’m proud that JGU is ranked
India’s premier private liberal arts
university for the fourth year consec-
utively. The parameter scores accu-
rately reflect our institution-building
priorities. The top-rank awarded
to us by your sample responders is
valuable endorsement that we are
moving ahead in the right direction,”
says Dr. (Prof.) C. Raj Kumar,
the polymath (Madras, Delhi, Oxford
and Harvard alum) founding Vice
Chancellor of JGU.
While he modestly dismisses Anant National University, Ahmedabad students: Top 3 promotion
the high score awarded to JGU for
leadership, Raj Kumar is especially from 51 countries has displayed exceptional achievement,” says Raj
pleased with the top score of this extraordinary versatility in develop- Kumar, who adds that this year JGU
fully residential varsity with 10,000 ing our innovative pedagogy. In the has begun a “measured entry” into
students, under the competence of latest 2025 rankings of THE, London, STEM education and will transform
faculty parameter. JGU is awarded #1 rank globally for into a full-fledged multidisciplinary
“Our 1,100-strong faculty drawn online education quality. This is an university within two years.

Private liberal arts & humanities league table

Rank Competence of faculty Faculty welfare & development (100) Research and innovation (300) Curriculum & pedagogy Industry interface (100) Placement (100) Infrastructure (150) Internationalism (100) Leadership / governance Range/diversity of programmes offered (100) TOTAL SCORE (1300) NIRF 2024* Rank

2022 2023 2024 2025 (150) (100) quality (100)

1 1 1 1 OP Jindal Global University (Deemed University),
Sonipat (Haryana) 144 84 177 89 85 83 143 88 86 75 1054 NR
4 2 2 2 FLAME University, Pune 142 81 176 82 75 84 142 79 82 75 1018 NR
NR NR 4 3 Anant National University, Ahmedabad 135 69 172 79 68 81 101 69 73 65 912 NR
NR NR 3 4 MIT Art, Design & Technology University, Pune 128 71 153 69 67 60 127 74 79 71 899 NR
3 3 5 5 Deccan College Post-Graduate and Research
Institute (Deemed University), Pune 127 68 124 70 64 59 120 70 68 57 827 NR
5 4 6 6 World University of Design, Sonipat (Haryana) 119 66 123 62 59 58 120 56 63 56 782 NR
6 5 7 7 Jain Vishva Bharati Institute (Deemed University),
Nagaur (Rajasthan) 100 55 111 58 46 43 108 51 47 55 674 NR
7 6 8 8 Apex Professional University (APU), Pasighat
(Arunachal Pradesh) 97 49 115 53 46 43 92 45 45 53 638 NR

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