With more than 43,000 colleges in the country, the India Today Group’s college ranking strives to make critical career decision easier for aspirants and guide stakeholders such as recruiters, parents, alumni, policymakers, general public and institutions. Since 2018, this survey has been conducted in association with Delhi-based market research agency Marketing & Development Research Associates (MDRA). The groundwork this year was conducted between December 2022 and June 2023. Colleges were ranked in 14 streams—Arts, Science, Commerce, Medical, Dental Sciences, Engineering, Architecture, Law, Mass Communication, Hotel Management, BBA, BCA, Social Work and Fashion Design.
For objective ranking, MDRA tuned over 112 performance indicators in each stream and clubbed them under five broad parameters—‘Intake Quality and Governance’, ‘Academic Excellence’, ‘Infrastructure and Living Experience’, ‘Personality and Leadership Development’ and ‘Career Progression and Placement’.…