“We are thrilled to be ranked India’s #1 legacy international residential school by EducationWorld for the fifth year in succession. The stability and longevity of schools in this category give credence to their blend of heritage and innovation that lead to outstanding education provision. In this 170-year-old school, we have developed and maintained consistently […]
“We are delighted to be ranked India #1 in our competitive new category of international residential schools. This is the outcome of the sustained efforts of our excellent faculty and students, and particularly vision of our Chairman Dr. Chenraj Roychand who believes that a genuinely holistic curriculum is necessary to nurture leaders and […]
“We are delighted to be ranked India’s best Central government day school for the third year in succession with top scores for teacher welfare and development, co-curricular and sports education. This reflects not only our academic achievements but also our dedication to nurturing well-rounded individuals equipped with the values and life skills required for […]
When children start learning together from young age, male children in particular, learn the virtues of empathy, respect and gender egalitarianism from their early years. Therefore it is a sign of progress that the league table of co-ed day schools — of sufficiently high repute to be ranked — is the longest in EWISR 2024-25 […]
This year the field interviews and market research have been conducted by the Bengaluru-based AZ Research Partners which over the past two decades has established an excellent reputation for rigorous market research for clients in India and abroad
Even though public K-12 education in post-independence India was foolishly neglected by omniscient central planners and shallow […]
“I am delighted that CAJCS has succeeded in maintaining its #1 position. I attribute our consistent top rank to the hard work and commitment of our heads and teachers who ensure that our standards of excellence are not only maintained but constantly reinforced and improved. We are one of few schools to offer curricula […]
Usually sited in green belt peripheries of India’s ill-planned metropolitan cities, day-cum-boarding schools are popular with high-income households in road-traffic choked metros. Moreover they are invariably co-educational, sparing siblings pain of separation.
“I am delighted that Daly College has retained its #1 ranking in the prestigious EW special category of vintage day-cum-boarding schools. I have been principal here for just over two years and several new initiatives that have been introduced are proving very successful. To improve under the critical parameter of teacher competence, apart form […]
In a still largely conservative and patriarchal society where gender discrimination is rife, for cultural, theological and safety reasons, a sizeable number of parents prefer to enrol their girl children in all-girls school.
Neera Singh (centre) & RKKGPS students: motivational top rank
Even though the majority of newly promoted schools in the country […]
“This is great news. We are delighted that St. Mary’s School, Pune has retained its #1 rank as India’s and Maharashtra’s #1 vintage girls day school. It provides a sense of fulfillment for all the effort that our teachers and staff have invested in sustaining our growth and development over the past year. We […]
With most schools promoted in the new millennium being of mixed gender and some vintage all-boys schools going co-ed, the league table of boys schools is static at 30. Nevertheless some all-boys institutions enjoy king-size national reputations
Campion, Mumbai’s Dr. Francis Swamy (centre left): second rank stimulus
“This top rank awarded to St. Mary’s, Mazgaon after I was appointed principal following 17 years service in rural areas of Maharashtra , gives me great joy and satisfaction. I am immensely grateful to the Lord that he has blessed our school with a great team of teachers and staff. This wouldn’t have been […]
Vidya Mandir Sr Sec School, Mylapore, Chennai students: academic reputation #1
To compile the 2023-24 league tables of day schools — co-ed, boys, girls and day-cum-boarding — 18,928 respondents comprising parents, principals, teachers and senior students were persuaded to rate them under 14 parameters or attributes. On the reasoning that there is more […]
Bai Avabai Framji Petit Girls High School, Mumbai: community service #1
To compile the 2024-25 league tables of all vintage legacy day schools — co-ed, boys, girls and day-cum-boarding — 8,700 respondents comprising parents of school going students, faculty, educators & counsellors were persuaded to rate them on 15 parameters or attributes. On […]
In 294 million households countrywide, this is a time to gear up for the onset of infections and diseases that flourish in the damp, wet environments. Children are especially vulnerable – Kiran Balimane & Cynthia John
The bountiful monsoon which has spread across most parts of the country, has cheered farmers worried about incomes, and […]
With the unrelenting march of automation and artificial intelligence, a spectre of unemployment and redundancy is haunting executive suites as much as college campuses. Therefore a fever to skill, reskill and upskill is pervading middle class India, if not less aware segments of the population writes Summiya Yasmeen
Parents in newly affluent households are increasingly under pressure to concede to every whim and demand of children. As a result Gen Z children with an overweening sense of impunity and entitlement are running amok countrywide -Kiran Balimane & Cynthia JohnRapid growth and expansion of India’s upper middle class after the landmark industry liberalisation […]
Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan has begun his second innings in Shastri Bhavan, Delhi, at an inflection point in national development when a broad consensus has emerged that top priority has to be accorded to real education and skilling of the world’s largest population of children and youth writes Dilip Thakore
In this new academic year cover story, PW presents a motivation and success guide devised by experts to enable parents to equip children with the mindset, skills and confidence to achieve academic and extra-curricular success -Kiran Balimane & Cynthia John
The new academic year starting June-July is the season when monsoon rains start, bringing joy […]
Against the backdrop of dismal conditions in Indian education, a mint new report authored by LoEstro Advisors, a Hyderabad-based education focused investment banking and consulting firm, says that a positive sea change is manifesting in private K-12 education countrywide writes Dilip Thakore
Seven decades after under the inspiring leadership of Mahatma Gandhi the country won […]
“We are humbled that EW survey respondents have consistently ranked Institute of Chemical Technology (ICT) among India’s Top 5 public engineering and technology universities. Since establishment in 1933, the institute has evolved into a deemed university with three campuses in Mumbai, Marathwada and Bhubaneswar, providing education, training, research and industrial collaboration in chemical engineering, chemical […]
With the new academic year all set to begin this month, PW presents a comprehensive child development guide devised by experts to enable parents to better prepare children to achieve their academic and extra-curricular goals of the next year -Kiran Balimane & Cynthia John
The end of the summer vacation and start of the new […]
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 […]
India’s private B-schools capable of responding quickly to changes in the business environment and customising their curriculums accordingly, are likely to play an increasingly important role to modernise and upgrade India Inc to compete with the world’s most dominant corporations, writes Dilip Thakore
Indian School of Business: Financial Times, London global #31
Although they continue to be adamantly unresponsive, every year since 2020 EducationWorld has been eliciting expert opinion to rate and rank government agricultural universities countrywide.
NAU’s Dr. Z.P. Patel (right): 114 crop varieties and 728 technologies record
Since 2020 thousands of farmers have been periodically protesting countrywide, demanding legally guaranteed minimum support prices for agriculture […]
Established in 23 states countrywide, India’s 27 publicly-funded National Law Universities (NLUs) have emerged as the gold standard of contemporary legal education
The country’s 27 publicly-funded National Law Universities (NLUs) are the IITs of legal education. Since the first National Law School of India University, Bengaluru was promoted in 1988 pursuant to legal education reforms advocated […]
Although the country’s new genre private universities with their sprawling capital intensive campuses, new-age study programmes, and high-quality faculty, are capturing the public imagination, government universities continue to host 74 percent of youth in higher education
The latest All India Survey of Higher Education (AISHE) Report 2021-22 (released January 25) of the Union education ministry […]
“We are thrilled that SRIHER is once again ranked India’s #1 private medical university. This is public recognition of our continued commitment to excellence in medical education, healthcare, and research. SRIHER is a multi-disciplinary medical university with 14 faculties offering 37 undergraduate, 125 post-graduate and doctoral programmes in medical, dental, nursing and other allied health […]
JGU’s Dr. Raj Kumar (right): #1 three consecutive years
New-genre liberal arts universities created great public excitement and were ranked within the national Top 20 of the composite private universities league table in the annual EW India Higher Education Rankings in 2019. After sub-division of the broad category of private HEIs according to subject […]
India’s new genre multidisciplinary universities benchmarked against the world’s best are a breath of fresh air with the potential to check, if not stop, the annual migration of an estimated 8 lakh school and college-leavers for higher education abroad.
Indian university graduates: unemployability spectre
Since the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, based on the Kasturirangan […]
Attaining the $30 trillion GDP dream by 2047 necessitates private engineering and technology universities skilling an army of managers and workers in STEM subjects
Prof. Ramgopal Rao (centre): research powerhouse & start-ups incubator
If the lofty Viksit Bharat (‘developed India’) with a $30 trillion GDP dream of Prime Minister Narendra Modi — who seems […]
To compile the league table of India’s most admired public and private universities, 2,100 respondents, comprising faculty and students in higher education institutions and industry leaders in 22 states countrywide were interviewed, writes Dilip Thakore and Summiya Yasmeen
Although learned professors and academics in their ivory towers seem oblivious and hold themselves blameless, there’s much that’s […]
With summer holidays having begun across the country and children likely to spend more time outdoors, it’s especially important for parents to protect children against summer heat. In this special summer cover story, eminent medical practitioners and health experts provide precautionary guidelines to cope with common summer heat-related ailments -Kiran Balimane & Cynthia John
Since 1986 when the Delhi-based University Grants Commission (UGC) introduced a ‘Scheme for Autonomous Colleges’, their number has grown to 979. Of them the majority — 786 — are privately promoted and managed
St. Xavier, Mumbai’s Dr. Rajendra Shinde (centre): autonomy advantages
Way back in 1986, the National Policy on Education (1986-92) mooted the idea […]
In this year’s private non-autonomous colleges league table, St. Stephen’s College, tied to the apron strings of Delhi University — a Central government institution — retains its #1 status. Several nationally acclaimed Arts, Science and Commerce (ASC) undergrad colleges are in the same boat
St. Stephen’s Prof. John Varghese (centre): service commitment
Although it is commonly accepted that the IITs and NITs provide the best engineering undergrad education, since they admit a mere 2-3 percent of aspirant school-leavers, the public interest is better served by ranking undergrad private engineering colleges which constitute 70 percent of all engineering institutions countrywide, writes Dilip Thakore.
The annual EWIHER with its careful categorisation of higher education institutions — to eliminate apples and oranges type comparisons – is the most reliable guide for school-leavers seeking academically and aptitudinally suitable colleges and universities, writes Dilip Thakore
As most corporate leaders will testify, academic standards India’s higher education institutions — especially undergrad arts, science and […]
For mysterious reasons government autonomous colleges are rarely ranked by the Union education ministry and media publications. EducationWorld is an exception because we appreciate them as islands of collegiate education excellence: Writes, Summiya Yasmeen
GDWC, Hyderabad principal Dr. Padmavathi (centre) & students: long-awaited recognition
India’s 979 autonomous undergrad colleges have a special place of honour […]
In this General Election-eve story, we assess the track record of the Modi government — the first non-Congress government to have completed ten years in office in independent India — in early childhood, primary-secondary, skilling and higher education writes Summiya Yasmeen
Prime Minister Narendra Modi: eventful decade for Indian education
In this General Election-eve story, we assess the track record of the Modi government — the first non-Congress government to have completed ten years in office in independent India — in early childhood, primary-secondary, skilling and higher education writes Summiya Yasmeen
Prime Minister Narendra Modi: eventful decade for Indian education
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