Mumbai colleges not on the top list, St Xavier’s at 40th

Mumbai’s famed St Xavier's College is the only institution to find a place in the list of top educational institutions in the country prepared by the Union Human Resource Development ministry. And that too at the lowly 40th spot. Two other colleges from the city had applied for the ranking: St Andrew’s College at Bandra and SIES (South Indian Education Society) College at Sion, but failed to find a place in the list.

Delhi’s Miranda House and Bengaluru’s Indian Institute of Science have been ranked the country’s best college and university, a government ranking of educational institutions said on Monday.

Loyola College in Chennai and Shri Ram College were the second and third-best colleges in India, said the survey of “general degree” colleges.

Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University — which was at the centre of a storm on nationalism last year — was ranked second among universities while Banaras Hindu University secured the third position. Seven IITs were among the top 10 in the overall ranking category.

Indian Institute of Technology-Madras was the top engineering school while Jamia Hamdard was judged the best pharmacy institute. Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad was adjudged the finest management institute.

Kolkata’s Jadavpur University was ranked fifth among universities. “Jadavpur and JNU haven’t got good ranking for raising slogan for Afzal Guru but for doing good work,” Human Resource Development Minister Prakash Javadekar said.