Medical Colleges: Breeding Life Savers Every Year
New Delhi, June 16 - curriculum upgradation, experiential learning, admission process, etc (500 points).
Industry Interface: ‘Live' projects undertaken by students, number of research projects with industry undertaken by faculty (450 points).
Placements: Number and type of companies visiting for campus interviews; maximum, median and minimum salary offered for jobs in India and abroad; number of students who went for higher education in reputed Indian and foreign institutes; ROI (450 points).
Infrastructure and Support Systems: Campus area, total number of computers, number of books in library, number of faculty cabins, faculty strength ratio, number of seminar halls, number of engineering drawing halls, number of workshops, number of machines in workshops, number of laboratories, budget allocated for labs, residential facilities for students and 
faculty, facilities like playgrounds, gym etc., and responsiveness of administration to student needs (700 points).
The weightage given to each of the parameters was derived by taking the average weightage that the faculty gave to each parameter.
Similarly, for ranking medical colleges, 203 faculty members and 217 final-year students were interviewed. Not more than one faculty member from each department was interviewed. The rating that the faculty gave to their own institute was not considered. Institutes that were not evaluated by at least 20 faculty members and 20 students are not listed.
Assessments for medical colleges were done on the basis of:
- Intellectual Capital (400 points
- Pedagogic Systems and Processes (200 points)
- Placements (200 points)
- Infrastructure and Support Systems (300 points).
To rank institutes offering programmes related to law, hotel management, healthcare management, fashion technology, animation, mass communication and media, faulty members and professionals in the respective industries were contacted. They were given a structured questionnaire and asked to rate the institutes they were familiar with on a ten-point scale against four broad parameters, i.e intellectual capital, pedagogic systems and processes, placements, and infrastructure and support systems. They were also asked to assign weightages to each of the parameter in terms of relative importance. In order to eliminate bias, the rating that the respondents gave to the institutes that they were working for or had graduated from was not considered. The average rating that each institute got against different parameters was calculated.
The average rating score was multiplied by the corresponding aggregate weightage. The sum total of the weighted averages was used to arrive at the score for an institute, which was ranked accordingly.
Source: HT Horizons
Date: 21st June, 2010
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