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Thapar University in Patiala, Punjab, which has been ranked among India’s leading institutions of higher learning, has once again figured among the top engineering institutes of the country in recent surveys conducted by independent research organisations.
Placed at the 16th position in the Hansa Research Survey conducted by The Week magazine, Thapar University has figured in the list of top 20 technical universities identified by the survey. The survey has also placed Thapar University in the list of Top 5 Non-Government Technical Universities. The magazine had carried the findings of the survey last month.
Thapar University has also excelled in the Outlook-Drshti Survey on India’s Top Professional Colleges for 2014, securing the 21st rank in the engineering category. The survey has adjudged the university as India’s 6th best private engineering college and the 7th best overall in terms of student-faculty ratio.
Bagging the 22nd rank, Thapar University has yet again made it to India Today’s Directory of 25 Best Engineering Colleges for 2014. The university has also been rated as 3rd in the category of Top Engineering Colleges of Super Excellence in the Global Human Resource Development Centre (GHRDC)-Competition Success Review (CSR) Engineering College Survey for 2014.
The Week-Hansa Research Survey rankings were based on various parameters like institute’s profile, infrastructure, intellectual resources (faculty), academic programmes and processes, quality of students admitted, placements, industry exposure and extra-curricular activities. The composite score was derived by combining the perceptual score for the college, based on the nominations made by faculty, current students, aspiring students and recruiters, and the factual score, based on the data submitted by the colleges. Thapar University fared well on most of these parameters.
The parameters for the GHRDC-CSR survey were infrastructure, research and faculty, admissions, curriculum and delivery systems and placements/industry interface. Thapar University scored especially high on placements/industry interface and research and faculty.
The India Today-Nielsen survey was based on the analysis of the institutes’ reputation, academic input, student care, infrastructure and placements. Here, too, Thapar University scored high in terms of infrastructure and academic input.
The Outlook-Drshti Survey assessed India’s top professional colleges on the basis of selection process, academic excellence, personality development and industrial interface, infrastructure and placements. Thapar University made a mark for itself in this survey as well in academic excellence and placements.
