GNDU among top world varsities

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, April 28

The Centre for World University Ranking (CWUR), an independent international assessment agency that evaluates institutes of higher education world-wide on the basis of stringent objective parameters since 2012, has ranked Guru Nanak Dev University (GNDU) among the top-9 per cent universities of the world.

In its recent survey report released for 2021-22, the agency has placed GNDU among the top-2,000 universities of the world. Among the total 19,788 institutions that were ranked across the globe, GNDU was placed at a global rank of 1,777 and a national rank of 52, a couple of grades above its previous year’s ranking, where it had 1814 rank globally and 55th rank nationally.

The Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, is the top ranking institute from India, followed by the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru. The ranking list contains total 19,788 universities from all over the world thereby making CWUR list the largest academic ranking of global universities.

A university spokesperson said these rankings were for institutes in higher education on the basis of various parameters and yearly quantifiable characteristics. These rankings are a combination of seven objectives and indicators such as quality of education, alumni employment, quality of faculty, research performance, including research output, high-quality publications, influence and citations among other things.

Last year, GNDU was placed among one of the top ranking universities in the northern region of India as is evident from the fact that it has been accredited as the “University with A++ Grade (highest level as per modified criteria)” by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC), University with Potential for Excellence and Category-I University by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India.