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Under the Centre for World University Rankings, Panjab University was able to improve its rank from last year. Panjab University states that the assessments done by CWUR are objective in nature. It has grabbed the 12th rank at the national level and 803rd rank at the global level.
The Centre for World University Rankings (CWUR) has released a new list of Top Universities in the World. Among the list, Panjab University has been able to improve its last year’s rank at the national level by moving up one position.
The Centre for World Rankings is an organisation that has been set up to provide consultation as well as strategic ideas and provides advice on policy-making to various governmental departments and other educational institutions so as to improve their educational as well as research results.
In last year’s rankings, Panjab University was ranked 807 in the world and 13th in India. This year, with several adjustments and improvements made at the university level, the institution had been able to improve its rank at both the National as well as the global level. Panjab University was able to snatch the 803rd rank at the global level, while it took the 12th position at the National level.
CWUR Indicators
- Quality of Education
- Research Performance
- Alumni Employment
- Quality of Faculty
Panjab University was able to improve its performance immensely, except under alumni employment. Under quality of education, the varsity was able to jump to the 433rd position from last years 620th position. Meanwhile, under the research performance category, the University was able to take up the 779th position. Where it lacked was the employment of alumni, where the varsity lost its position and ranked at 587 from previous year’s 566th rank.
As per the statements made by Panjab University, the Centre for World University Rankings has used objective parameters, wherein they did not depend on surveys and data submissions from the varsity. They further questioned the transparency of the QS World Rankings and the survey conducted by them to rank the institutions. Sources state that Panjab University was not able to bag a position under the QS World Rankings Top 1000 Global University for two years successively. Due to their absence from the QS World Rankings, the sources state that the Government of India could not provide the varsity with the tag of Institute of Eminence.
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Among the top Indian varsities and institutes that have been mentioned in the CWUR rankings, the Indian Institute of Science Bangalore (IISc Bangalore) , the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIM-A) and the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi) grabbed the top three positions.
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Ranking systems and different ranking lists depict the quality of education that is offered by the different Universities and institutes, wherein the student is able to judge the best educational institution for themselves. Setting parameters that judge the educational institutions’ performance under different categories, allows the varsities to improve their academic and overall performance.
