Jamia ranks top among central universities in govt's assessment report

In the Indian Ministry of Human Resource and Development (HRD) assessment report out this week, Jamia Millia Islami (JMI) University ranked top with 90 percent points in the assessment of 40 central universities. Arunachal Pradesh's Rajiv Gandhi University ranked second with 83 percent points and Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) ranked third with 78 percent points. The score is based on a tri-partite agreement between the University Grants Commission (UGC) and the HRD Ministry’s higher education division.

As reported by India Today, the evaluation is based on student intake across courses, percentage of female students, students who are not domicile of the state in which the university is based in, foreign students ratio, quality of faculty, as well as proportion of students placed through campus recruitment and qualifying top examinations such as GATE, NET etc.

- TIN Bureau