Post ’18 humiliation, breather for MSU
tnn | Apr 9, 2019, 04:47 IST
In 2018, MSU had not even featured among the top 200 universities even as other state-run universities made it to the listVadodara: MS University got a breather on Monday as it featured among the top 150 universities of the country in the National Institute of Ranking Framework (NIRF) rankings for 2019 declared by Ministry of Human Resource Development.
The university, however, was in the rank-band of 151 to 200 in the overall education institutions’ rankings. In 2018, MSU had not even featured among the top 200 universities even as other state-run universities made it to the list. MSU officials had come under severe criticism from everywhere since the last year’s rankings. In 2016, MSU ranked 76th and in 2017, it was in the rank-band of 151 to 200.
The only institute that featured in the overall top 100 rankings of universities includes Anand Agriculture University (AAU) which has been ranked at 67th position. The only breather for MSU was its pharmacy faculty which received 17th rank with a score of 55.07 in the pharmacy category. Other institutions from Gujarat which are in pharmacy rankings are National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, Gandhinagar, Nirma University, LM College of Pharmacy in Ahmedabad and BK Modi Government Pharmacy College, Rajkot.
Among the other categories – engineering, management, law, architecture and medical – MSU’s faculties do not feature in top 100. However, Faculty of Technology and Engineering was placed 137 in the engineering category.
“With this trend, we will improve our raking in near future. Our continual efforts are on in this direction. It should be noted that, MSU is one of the largest (student intake and number of faculty members) state universities to appear in the list. No university with UG and PG teaching can achieve good rank under the current framework of NIRF and especially MSU stands at structural disadvantage,” said MS University’s vice-chancellor professor Parimal Vyas.
He added that the university’s concern is per teacher research output with less than one paper in Scopus and web of science indexed journals, UGC listed journals, almost nil patents, low number of PhD guides, low PhD registrations and above all very high student-teacher ratio and nearly half of the teachers are without PhD.
About 4,000 institutes had participated in the India Rankings 2019 survey.
The university, however, was in the rank-band of 151 to 200 in the overall education institutions’ rankings. In 2018, MSU had not even featured among the top 200 universities even as other state-run universities made it to the list. MSU officials had come under severe criticism from everywhere since the last year’s rankings. In 2016, MSU ranked 76th and in 2017, it was in the rank-band of 151 to 200.
The only institute that featured in the overall top 100 rankings of universities includes Anand Agriculture University (AAU) which has been ranked at 67th position. The only breather for MSU was its pharmacy faculty which received 17th rank with a score of 55.07 in the pharmacy category. Other institutions from Gujarat which are in pharmacy rankings are National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, Gandhinagar, Nirma University, LM College of Pharmacy in Ahmedabad and BK Modi Government Pharmacy College, Rajkot.
Among the other categories – engineering, management, law, architecture and medical – MSU’s faculties do not feature in top 100. However, Faculty of Technology and Engineering was placed 137 in the engineering category.
“With this trend, we will improve our raking in near future. Our continual efforts are on in this direction. It should be noted that, MSU is one of the largest (student intake and number of faculty members) state universities to appear in the list. No university with UG and PG teaching can achieve good rank under the current framework of NIRF and especially MSU stands at structural disadvantage,” said MS University’s vice-chancellor professor Parimal Vyas.
He added that the university’s concern is per teacher research output with less than one paper in Scopus and web of science indexed journals, UGC listed journals, almost nil patents, low number of PhD guides, low PhD registrations and above all very high student-teacher ratio and nearly half of the teachers are without PhD.
About 4,000 institutes had participated in the India Rankings 2019 survey.
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