FOUR MUMBAI COLLEGES ON INDIA’S TOP INSTITUTES LIST
MUMBAI: Four city colleges have made their way into the list of India’s top 15 institutes on academic parameters, released by a recent study.
These colleges are Narsee Monjee College of Commerce and Economics, Vile Parle, Mithibai College, Vile Parle, KJ Somaiya College, Vidyavihar, and Thakur College of Science and Commerce, Kandivli.
The study, titled India’s most trusted educational institutes 2014-15, was conducted by Trust Research Advisory (TRA). The list was unveiled on Wednesday at Churchgate.
“The respondents were selected from 40 cities,” said Sachin Bhosle, research head, TRA.
However, the city lagged behind in the top 15 trusted educational institutes. NM College, at rank 12, was the only institute that featured on the list. Of the top 1,000 trusted institutes, Mumbai and Delhi dominate with 89 institutes each, followed by Bangalore (77) and Chennai (63).
Around 30,000 institutes were named by the 7,710 respondents across 40 cities. The report lists India’s 1,000 most trusted educational institutes, top 200 institutes on academic parameters and 120 of most preferred courses.
Hindu College, Delhi, has been voted India’s most trusted educational institute, with Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, and Loyola College, Chennai, as second and third respectively. Gauhati University, Guwahati, features as the best institute on the basis of academic parameters.
The top five preferred courses are commerce, IT, engineering, arts and law. “We released this report in the hope that it will help students and their parents decide between various institutes,” said N Chandramouli, chief executive officer, TRA.