Defining Parameters
Expectations from educational institutes change with time. The years 2020 best exemplify this statement. Overnight, institutes which could provide seamless online learning experience became the trailblazers. Now, with AI causing the next big disruption, providing answers to the new industry needs will decide the leaders.
BW Businessworld Engineering Rankings aim to rank institutes based on the agility of engineering colleges to deal with the ever-changing industry situations and provide most up-to-date learning experience. An engineering college must be able to incorporate in its curriculum the latest developments in technology; it must be able to rev up its infrastructure especially machinery and software without delay; and upgrade faculty to impart that technical knowhow to students; it must ensure that students get actual experience through industry connects, and keeping up with the spirit of the times, it must encourage research and development, incubation and startup temperament among faculty and students.
At the same time, engineering institutes can’t be islands of excellence whose benefits do not reach out to the society and surrounding ecosystem. Present-day engineering institutes are mindful of that and carrying on projects and encouraging startups helping society. Work on sustainability is included therein, though several academicians we have
interviewed round the year have stated that sooner or later environment impact will come to constitute a separate criterion in global and national rankings.
Thus, here is the breakup on which institutes were assessed for the BW Businessworld ranking:
Teaching (20): Experienced, qualified educators are the most important criteria for a student in choosing a university, with employability being the end goal. Institutes should be able to draw faculty members with great research credentials and who have published extensively, as also industry experts.
Research Excellence (20): Research labs, tinkering labs, incubation centre, and faculty that can guide students appropriately, is what makes an institute a great research and development hub. These are measured through papers published and patents filed and registered.
Innovation (15): Appropriate use of technology to facilitate better outcomes, ensuring that innovative ideas can be translated to concrete results, and much more.
Employment (20): Making students employable at the end of the course (which can be measured through placements), or providing them the tools and confidence to become entrepreneurs and job givers.
Infrastructure (15): From lab set-ups described above to digital infrastructure, well-lit and creative classes, interactive tools, proper hostel, recreational facilities and food and hygiene, students place premium on all these.
Inclusion and Social Impact (10): This criterion is about taking steps to ensure equal opportunity and making the campus an equitable place
