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India Today College Rankings

India Today has come out with its annual colleges survey. They have listed out top 10 or 10 institutes each in Arts, Commerce, Science, Engineering, Law and Medicine. Unlike previous years, B-Schools rankings have not been published alongside. I expect the same to be given in the next Business Today issue that is to come out any time now.

The market research agency behind this is AC Nielsen ORG MARG. They have described their methodology is some detail, but I am yet to analyze it.

The top colleges for each field are:

• St Xavier's College, Mumbai (Arts)
• SRCC, Delhi (Commerce)
• Loyola College, Chennai (Science)
• IIT Delhi (Engineering)
• NLSIU, Bangalore (Law)
• AIIMS, Delhi (Medicine)

Again, I have not looked thru the report in detail, but the abscence of BITS Pilani in the engineering Top 20 was too glaring to miss.

PS: The entire issue looks like a multi page advertorial. Please people, bunch all those adverts into a separate handbook next time. From where do these institutes get the cash to place such ads anyways?

posted by Aditya @ 6/04/2006 03:30:00 PM