The annual EducationWorld India Higher Education Rankings provide comprehensive league tables ranking the country’s Top 500 arts, science and commerce colleges, Top 100 private engineering colleges, Top 300 government and private universities, and Top 100 private B-schools. However, these are all-inclusive rankings rating the country’s most well-reputed higher-ed institutions across all subject study programmes. This year, in response to public feedback and demand for rankings of education institutions by popular professional undergraduate programmes, this issue of EducationWorld features Top 10 higher-ed institutions that provide the most popular bachelor’s degree programmes. As usual to rate and rank colleges and universities offering the most favoured undergrad study programmes, EducationWorld partnered with the Delhi-based Centre for Forecasting and Research (C fore) to conduct secondary research using secondary data sources and published reports to shortlist 10 most popular undergrad courses and Top 10 colleges offering them. The most popularly preferred undergraduate programmes are: B.Com (banking and finance); bachelor of management studies (BMS)/bachelor of business administration (BBA); B.Arch (bachelor of architecture); BA-LLB (bachelor of law); B.Sc (nursing); B.Tech/BE (biotechnology); B.Tech (programming & data science); B.Tech/BE (computer science); B.Sc (agriculture); BJMC (Bachelor of journalism & mass communication). To conduct this survey, C fore personnel interviewed 1,018 college/university faculty and industry professionals (approx. 100 respondents for each study programme) to rate the Top 10 undergrad colleges providing them under six-ten parameters of higher education excellence. “Based on rating by experts, perceptual scores for colleges were collated. All the parameter scores were then added to arrive at the total score of every college, to rank the Top 10 colleges/institutions providing the ten most popular undergraduate programmes,” explains Premchand Palety, chief executive of C fore. “Shri Ram College of Commerce (SRCC) has been consistently ranked the country’s top commerce college for over a decade by almost all media publications. Now EducationWorld has ranked SRCC national #1 on six parameters including faculty competence, curriculum and pedagogy and infrastructure. Our faculty is highly qualified — most books on nearly all subjects in commerce are written by SRCC faculty. In addition to devising a support system of extensive peer-to-peer mentoring and learning, the college encourages students to participate in co-curricular activities of over 50-plus students’ societies. Most important, the college’s active academia-industry and institution-alumni interface keep our students connected with latest developments in industry and business. As a result an SRCC degree is a visiting card to great ventures in life” said Prof. Simrit Kaur (right), principal, Shri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi. “We are proud that PSG is ranked among the national Top 10 for computer science education provision. This ranking is very encouraging and a morale booster for faculty and students. We now have a greater responsibility to provide globally comparable B.Tech/ BE education to students and researchers in this fast-evolving discipline. I attribute our good performance to the vision of our management, support of the Central and state governments, encouragement from regulatory bodies, dedicated team of teachers and staff, highly motivated students and alumni” – Dr. K. Prakasan, principal-incharge,…
