In universities category, Bharathiar University bags the 14th place
Twelve universities or colleges in Coimbatore have found a place in the National Institutional Ranking Framework that the Ministry of Human Resource Development released a few days ago.
In the ‘Universities’ category, the Ministry had ranked Bharathiar University, Amrita University and Karunya Institute of Technology and Sciences at 14, 19 and 48 respectively.
In the ‘Engineering’ category, the Ministry had ranked PSG College of Technology at 24, Coimbatore Institute of Technology at 34, Karunya Institute of Technology and Sciences at 44, Kumaraguru College of Technology at 53 and Sri Ramakrishna Engineering College at 90 in the list of top 100 institutions.
Likewise, the Ministry had ranked Sri Krishna College of Engineering and Technology as the 41st best institution and RVS Technical Campus as the 47th best institution among the top 100 management colleges. And, in the ‘Pharmacy’ category, the Ministry has placed PSG College of Pharmacy at the 11th position.
For the city that considers itself an education hub, the presence of 12 institutions in four categories is definitely a good augury. It will lead to competition among institutions as they will want to find a place among the top 100 institutions in their respective category in the country, say academics.
R. Rudramoorthy, Principal, PSG College of Technology, said that the ranking was a reward for the college for having invested in research, encouraging faculty to present papers and reaching out to industry.
A Bharathiar University source said that the institution could have done better had it not been for the low score in the ‘Teaching Learning and Resources’ head. It was analysing the result to see where it had gone wrong so that it could improve its ranking to be in the top 10.
The ranking is fine but it will not lead to over-all improvement in quality of education, says E. Balagurusamy, former Vice Chancellor, Anna University. The competition will be only among the top institutions. But the majority of mediocre and bottom institutions will be least interested and it is those institutions that the Central and State governments must concentrate on, for it is from there that majority of the students graduate.
The two governments should devise methods to improve the quality of education there, he also says and adds that the ranking will definitely have to be welcomed.
‘The ranking is fine but it will not lead to over-all improvement in quality of education’
Twelve universities or colleges in Coimbatore have found a place in the National Institutional Ranking Framework that the Ministry of Human Resource Development released a few days ago.
In the ‘Universities’ category, the Ministry had ranked Bharathiar University, Amrita University and Karunya Institute of Technology and Sciences at 14, 19 and 48 respectively.
In the ‘Engineering’ category, the Ministry had ranked PSG College of Technology at 24, Coimbatore Institute of Technology at 34, Karunya Institute of Technology and Sciences at 44, Kumaraguru College of Technology at 53 and Sri Ramakrishna Engineering College at 90 in the list of top 100 institutions.
Likewise, the Ministry had ranked Sri Krishna College of Engineering and Technology as the 41st best institution and RVS Technical Campus as the 47th best institution among the top 100 management colleges. And, in the ‘Pharmacy’ category, the Ministry has placed PSG College of Pharmacy at the 11th position.
For the city that considers itself an education hub, the presence of 12 institutions in four categories is definitely a good augury. It will lead to competition among institutions as they will want to find a place among the top 100 institutions in their respective category in the country, say academics.
R. Rudramoorthy, Principal, PSG College of Technology, said that the ranking was a reward for the college for having invested in research, encouraging faculty to present papers and reaching out to industry.
A Bharathiar University source said that the institution could have done better had it not been for the low score in the ‘Teaching Learning and Resources’ head. It was analysing the result to see where it had gone wrong so that it could improve its ranking to be in the top 10.
The ranking is fine but it will not lead to over-all improvement in quality of education, says E. Balagurusamy, former Vice Chancellor, Anna University. The competition will be only among the top institutions. But the majority of mediocre and bottom institutions will be least interested and it is those institutions that the Central and State governments must concentrate on, for it is from there that majority of the students graduate.
The two governments should devise methods to improve the quality of education there, he also says and adds that the ranking will definitely have to be welcomed.
‘The ranking is fine but it will not lead to over-all improvement in quality of education’