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Parameters of excellence: India’s Top 10 ASC Colleges

(across all sub-categories)

o provide Plus Two students a comprehensive profile industry representatives countrywide, asking them to
of India’s most admired private arts, science and rate colleges other than their own on six parameters, viz,
Tcommerce colleges, the national league tables are competence of faculty, faculty welfare and development,
supplemented with Top 10 national rankings on the basis curriculum and pedagogy, career/readinessplacement
of parameters of excellence. record, infrastructure and leadership/governance quality.
To compile the league tables of the country’s top- Equal weightage (100) was given to each except the critical
ranked private autonomous, government autonomous and faculty competence parameter which was weighted at 200.
non-autonomous colleges, AZ Research field researchers The ratings given by respondents under each parameter
interviewed 2,175 higher education faculty, students and were totaled to arrive at an aggregate score according to
which India’s top colleges are ranked.
The national rankings of Top 10 colleges (across all sub-
Rank
Competence of faculty Rating categories) under all six parameters enumerated above, are
2023 2024 2025 2026 (200) set out below.
2 2 2 1 Shri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi 184
1 1 1 2 St. Stephen’s College, Delhi 183 Rank Career readiness & Rating
4 2 2 2 St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai 183 2023 2024 2025 2026 placement (100)
6 3 3 3 Mount Carmel College, Bengaluru 182
3 3 4 3 Lady Shri Ram College for Women, Delhi 182 1 1 1 1 St. Stephen’s College, Delhi 85
10 3 3 4 St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata 180 7 4 4 2 St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai 84
NR 9 6 4 St. Joseph’s College, Devagiri, Kozhikode 180 3 3 3 3 Shri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi 83
9 5 5 5 Loyola College, Chennai 179 4 1 2 4 Miranda House, Delhi 81
9 8 5 5 Madras Christian College, Chennai 179 2 2 2 4 Lady Shri Ram College for Women, Delhi 81
NR 9 7 5 RA Podar College of Commerce & NR 6 7 4 BK Birla College of Arts, Science &
Economics, Mumbai 179 Commerce, Kalyan, Mumbai 81
NR NR NR 5 Sophia College for Women, Mumbai 179 9 6 6 5 RA Podar College of Commerce &
NR NR NR 5 Maitreyi College, Delhi 179 Economics, Mumbai 80
NR NR 4 6 KJ Somaiya College of Arts and 10 6 7 5 Stella Maris College, Chennai 80
Commerce, Mumbai 178 NR NR 8 5 Avinash College of Commerce, Kukatpally,
NR 8 5 6 Presidency College, Bengaluru 178 Hyderabad 80
7 4 7 6 Narsee Monjee College of Commerce & NR 9 7 5 Mount Carmel College, Bengaluru 80
Economics, Mumbai 178 NR 8 5 6 HR College of Commerce and Economics,
NR NR NR 6 Loyola Academy, Secunderabad 178 Mumbai 79
NR 7 5 7 Nagindas Khandwala College, Malad (W), NR 8 7 6 Sri Venkateswara College, Delhi 79
Mumbai 177 NR 9 9 6 Sacred Heart College, Thevara, Kochi,
8 8 5 7 Mithibai College, Mumbai 177 Ernakulam 79
NR 7 7 7 Barrackpore Rastraguru Surendranath NR NR 9 6 Barrackpore Rastraguru Surendranath 79
College, Kolkata
College, Kolkata 177
NR 8 8 7 Guru Nanak College, Chennai 177 NR 10 10 6 KJ Somaiya College of Arts and 79
Commerce, Mumbai
9 6 4 8 KPB Hinduja College of Commerce, 10 7 7 7 Narsee Monjee College of Commerce &
Mumbai 176 Economics, Mumbai 78
9 8 5 9 St. Francis College for Women, Hyderabad 175 NR 9 8 7 Madras Christian College, Chennai 78
NR NR 9 9 Stella Maris College, Chennai 175 NR NR NR 7 Maitreyi College, Delhi 78
NR NR 9 9 Sunbeam College for Women, NR NR NR 7 SK Somaiya College of Arts, Science and
Bhagwanpur, Varanasi 175 Commerce, Mumbai 78
NR NR NR 9 SK Somaiya College of Arts, Science and NR 8 5 8 Sophia College for Women, Mumbai 77
Commerce, Mumbai 175 NR 7 6 8 Nagindas Khandwala College, Malad (W),
NR 6 6 10 BK Birla College of Arts, Science & Mumbai 77
Commerce, Kalyan, Mumbai 174 5 5 7 8 Hansraj College, Delhi 77
NR 7 9 10 Sacred Heart College, Thevara, Kochi,
Ernakulam 174 NR 9 8 8 Loyola College, Chennai 77
10 10 9 10 Kirori Mal College, Delhi 174 NB: NR= Not Ranked

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