Ashoka University students: curriculum & pedagogy #1

To compile the EW India Private University Rankings 2025-26, AZ Research field researchers interviewed 2,100 higher education faculty, students and industry managers countrywide, asking them to rate institutions on ten parameters, viz, competence of faculty, faculty welfare and development, research and innovation, curriculum and pedagogy, industry interface, placements record, infrastructure and facilities, internationalism, leadership/governance quality and range/diversity of programmes offered. Each parameter was assigned varying weightage with the research and innovation accorded highest weightage (300). The scores awarded by the respondents to the ten parameters were totaled to rank India’s Top 10 private universities under each parameter of higher education excellence.

Parameter rankings which highlight the prime strengths of highly ranked institutions are useful because they enable students to select institutions whose priorities dovetail with their own.

The national ranking of Top 10 private universities (across all categories) under all ten parameters, are set out below.

BITS-Pilani is ranked #1 on the critical parameters of research and innovation, competence of faculty, placement, and leadership/governance quality