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 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 2024-45, to rate and rank colleges and universities offering most favoured undergrad study programmes, EducationWorld used secondary data sources, and published reports to shortlist ten most popular undergrad courses and colleges offering them. The most 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, AZ Research Partners Pvt. Ltd personnel interviewed 2,100 higher education faculty, students and industry representatives to rate the Top 10 undergrad colleges under six-nine parameters of higher education excellence. In the following pages, we present league tables ranking India’s Top 10 colleges providing the most popular undergrad study programmes. BA.LLB (Bachelor of arts-bachelor of legislative law) B.Tech/BE (computer science) “We are very pleased that our B.Tech program in computer science is ranked most popular for the third year in a row. Our excellent faculty, curriculum and pedagogy, and infrastructure is reflected in our high scores under these parameters. Our flexible, well-rounded, research-driven curriculum encourages peer-learning and learning-by-doing, and even our undergraduate students work on research projects. Starting this year, we will be awarding credits to students working in summer months on ongoing research projects. We have also created a Division for Flexible Learning to coordinate and deliver online and flexible programmes. Moreover, IIIT-H is launching a new integrated program that combines B.Tech in computer science with a Master of science in geospatial informatics by research” — Prof. Kishore Kothapalli, Dean (Academics) and Dr. Suresh Purini, Head, Computer Systems Group, Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT)-Hyderabad “We are thrilled that our BE (computer science) programme is ranked among India’s Top 5. There’s growing awareness countrywide of RVCE’s sharp focus on experiential learning and skill development. Moreover as our high score on the parameter of infrastructure shows, we provide state-of-the-art academic facilities and research labs. In the recent past, 27 Centres of Excellence in niche disciplines including macroelectronics, Internet of Things, computational genomics and robotics and automation, among others, have been established. It is this focus on extending opportunities to learn newest technologies that is behind our higher rank this year” — Prof. K.N. Subramanya, Principal, RV College of Engineering, Bengaluru B.Arch (Bachelor of architecture)…
