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EW INDIA HIGHER 18
EDUCATION
RANKINGS 2026-27 EDUCATION NEWS

Although several
media publications Delhi: Infantilisation
publish annual college pushback
and university rank-
ings, these are mostly Karnataka: Electoral
window dressing
politics-focused pub-
lications for whom Andhra Pradesh: Shining
education reporting new capital
and coverage is pe- West Bengal: Education
ripheral. neglect outcome
Tamil Nadu: Private
schools mirage

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INDIA’S MOST INDIA’S TOP-RANKED
ADMIRED NON-AUTONOMOUS
GOVERNMENT ASC COLLEGES

AUTONOMOUS Even though autonomous col-
42 COLLEGES leges are widely perceived as the
best and first choice of school-
leavers signing up for under-
Though the overwhelming
majority of the 1,788 un- grad Arts, Science & Commerce
INDIA’S BEST PRIVATE dergrad colleges granted courses, some non-autonomous
autonomous status by
AUTONOMOUS ASC COLLEGES UGC are privately promot- colleges which teach beyond the
prescribed curriculum and have
ed, a small number (234) a tradition of high-quality co-
A mere 1,788 of the 53,000 of colleges established by curricular and extra-curricular
undergraduate colleges state governments have education, are highly venerated
countrywide which have also met the qualifying
cleared the stringent quality standards set by UGC
norms prescribed by the apex IN THIS ISSUE
Delhi-based University Grants
Commission have been conferred
autonomy by UGC in almost eight Editorial 12 Private Autonomous 42
decades
Mailbox 14 Gov. Autonomous 58
86 Education News 18 Non-autonomous 68

Education Notes 30 Teacher-2-Teacher 83
INDIA’S TOP 250 PRIVATE Education Briefs 32 Engineering colleges 86
ENGINEERING COLLEGES Private B-schools 112
Expert Comment 33 Pictorial Essay 140
A significant proportion of graduates certified by India’s 5,868
engineering colleges enter the jobs market without adequate YoungAchievers 36 Interview 145
industry skills. Therefore, it’s important for school leavers
aspiring for technical higher education to carefully choose Cove r Story 38 Postscript 146
the most suitable engineering colleges providing latter-day
complex workplace skills

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