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 in 15 discrete categories, and Top 100 private B-schools. However, these are all-inclusive rankings rating the country’s most well-reputed higher ed institutions across several subject study programmes. In 2021, in response to public feedback and demand for rankings of education institutions by popular professional undergraduate programmes, EducationWorld introduced rankings of Top 10 higher ed institutions that provide the most popular bachelor’s degree programmes. In EWIHER 2023-24 to rate and rank colleges and universities offering most favoured undergrad study programmes, EducationWorld partnered with the Delhi-based Centre for Forecasting and Research (C fore) to conduct a research study using secondary data sources, and published reports to shortlist ten 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 (data science); B.Tech/BE (computer science); B.Sc (agriculture); BJMC (bachelor of journalism & mass communication). Please note in the streams of computer science, data science and biotechnology, only private higher institutions are ranked. To conduct this survey, C fore personnel interviewed 1,036 college/university faculty and industry professionals (approx. 100 respondents for each study programme) to rate the Top 10 undergrad colleges providing them under six-nine 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. In the following pages, we present league tables ranking India’s Top 10 colleges providing the most popular undergrad study programmes. “It’s good to know that we are among India’s Top 3 colleges for our B.Com programme in banking and finance. Yet our objective is to be ranked #1. As our high scores on all your survey’s six parameters of excellence show, Mithibai has excellent leadership and governance systems, rigorous curriculum and innovative pedagogy and good placements record. Moreover, we have introduced several value-added, skills-based certificate courses. Starting from the academic year 2023-24, all our courses will be designed as per NEP 2020 guidelines with students offered the choice of electives from other streams. This multidisciplinary approach will enable the overall development of students” – Prof. Krutika Desai (right), Principal, Mithibai College (Autonomous), Mumbai “It’s an honour to be ranked India #1 in the highly transparent and dependable EW rankings. IIIT-Hyderabad is widely known for its research-led undergrad education which is unprecedented in India. This has enabled us to excel year after year in the annual EW rankings. Our differentiated computer science B.Tech programme permits students complete flexibility in selecting electives and also undertaking research projects. In addition, its trans-disciplinary structure allows…
