Every Student and Academician must recall how a university is ranked

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Each year, various agencies and institutional bodies have been ranking universities, listing the top, or bottom universities in a country. May it is the international university rankings or local ones, these rankings bring a lot of attention and potential stress to prospective students in considering their study options. Individuals in their twenties, face one of the most challenging decisions to make in their life- which university should they go for, and that impacts a student both socially, and financially.

Every ranker uses different criteria to list the universities. For example, The MHRD of India makes use of the following criteria to rank institutes.

Teaching-learning and Resources 

The students are directly affected by these relevant factors:

1. Teaching environment and learning environment

2. Quality of its research

3. Knowledge production

4. Knowledge transfer

5. A reputation surveys

6. The ratio of staff to students.

7. The ratio of doctorate students to undergraduate students.

8. Doctorates awarded per academic staff, and

9. Institutional income

Research Productivity, Impact, and IPR

The quality and volume of research which ultimately depends on the ideas, theories and results and to test them we need advance infrastructures, opportunities to learn from leading researchers to benefit both intellectually and practically that it can serve our whole life. Advances in resources and facilities can create a healthy work environment.

Outcome and Placement

It is an important part of ranking that implies the impact of research- the industrial value of research.

Outreach and Inclusivity

International connections- one of the hallmarks for top institutes, International-exchange programme, research collaborations, International-domestic student ratio, International-domestic staff ratio and the proportion of research collaboration.

It is Quite a fact that institutes without international research collaborations, it is almost impossible to make up into the list of world’s best universities. These perimeters surely help the aspirant to apply for the best academies but also impacts the career of a student and Universities.

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