Pune: Savitribai Phule Pune University (SPPU) sneaks again to complete the 20th in the list of the 100 top of the top institutes in this country.
The ranking was stated by the Working Department of the Ministry of Education’s National Institutional Institution (NIRF) on Thursday.
The university maintained its position as number one state university from Maharashtra with the University of Mumbai coming second at 96.
Compared to last year, there had been a mixed response such as many institutions that slipped, while some rose ranked.
Parameters such as perceptions, patents-filed, financial resources and utilization for students include attracting most institutions in the city.
The principal also said that competition has increased this year because more universities have been registered.
Educators said the ban on the recruitment of teachers in universities which led to temporary staff recruitment had affected various marking parameters in NIRF.
Symbiosis International climbed its ranking compared to last year.
However, this university suffered too much in various parameters such as patent submissions, revenues through research funding, consultation work and student percentage (mostly challenged socially or economically) provided with replacement of full tuition fees by the institution to pursue their degree programs.
Pro Chancellor Vidya Yeravdekar said, “We have established IPR cells two years ago and our patents have increased.
However, generally, high patents at the Institute that focuses on engineering.
Our engineering colleges also build now on archiving patents.
We have done it well In the study compared to previous years.
“Bharati Vidyapets Deemed University’s College of Engineering is ranked 96th among the technical colleges saying that competition increases every year because more colleges participates every year.
Do it to the top 100 list when more than 1,500 colleges participate in which there are 20 IITS, 30 nits and more than 50 good government universities themselves are achievements, Anand Bhalerao, said the principal of Bvdu Coe, said.
Deputy Chancellor Nitin Karmalkar said there were two main reasons to slip in rank.
“Because the university campus is closed due to the Covid-19 pandemic and the following restrictions, the number of students coming from foreign countries has decreased.
Various programs involving foreign faculties also did not occur due to covid-19 restrictions,” he added.
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Ranking in other streams, except for architecture: Although the city has a fair share of state and conventional state colleges, there seems to be a little representation in the top 100 institutions in various categories provided by NIRF, except in vertical techniques.
There is no college architecture from the city to features in the list, while management, pharmaceutical vertical has two universities each in the top 100 list.
There is one college each in medical, law, teeth, college lists too.
“The Architecture Board (COA) is the highest government agency for all architectural institutions.
Until now, COA approval is the main focus of all architectural institutions.
CoA has mentioned a few years ago that there is no need for other agreements and it will emerge with its own accreditation platform.
Therefore, many institutions do not register for NAAC to the last moment.
NIRF ratings have never been needed at architectural institutions and consciousness are also limited to architectural scenarios.
Therefore, the representation of architectural institutions is not visible in NIRF.
BNCA applies NIRF this year soon after the next application For open applications, “Kashyap Anurag, Principal of Bhanuben Nanavati College of Architecture.
Fergusson Slips to the lowest ranking since 2017: Fergusson College is the only one from the city that has appeared in the top 100 lists of universities but the rating has slipped to the lowest since a separate university category introduced by NIRF in 2017.
However, this is still one- The only college from the city which displays in the list and also gets a very high score in terms of academic peer and parameters of employers’ perceptions.