PU ranks among the top 2% institutions of higher education worldwide

Ranked second among Indian Universities & 4th among all Higher Education Institutions of the country

Chandigarh July 19, 2015: Panjab University (PU), Chandigarh has been ranked #491 among the 25,000+ degree-granting institutions of higher education worldwide in this year’s CWUR World University Rankings, which has been published on http://cwur.org/2015/. This means the University is among the top 2% institutions providing higher education worldwide.

There are sixteen institutions from India in the top 1000 that include six Universities and ten institutes like the IITs, IISc, AIIMS, TIFR etc.IIT-Delhi tops among the Indian institutions with a rank of 341 and an overall score of 45.54. IIT-Delhi is followed by Delhi University(DU), Indian Institute of Science(IISc) & PU. Thus, PU is second among Indian Universities and fourth among all the Higher Education Institutions in country. Previous year, PU was 543 in World and fifth in India. In 2014, PU was ranked after IIT-Delhi, DU, IISc and IIT-Bombay. This year, PU has an overall score of 44.8. Harvard University from USA tops the overall list.

The Center for World University Rankings (CWUR) publishes the only global university ranking that measures the quality of education and training of students as well as the prestige of the faculty members and the quality of their research without relying on surveys and university data submissions.

The CWUR has used eight objective and robust indicators to rank the world’s top 1000 universities:

1)    Quality of Education, measured by the number of a university’s alumni who have won

major international awards, prizes, and medals relative to the university’s size [25%]

2)    Alumni Employment, measured by the number of a university’s alumni who have held CEO

positions at the world’s top companies relative to the university’s size [25%

3)    Quality of Faculty, measured by the number of academics who have won major

international awards, prizes, and medals [25%]

4)    Publications, measured by the number of research papers appearing in reputable

journals [5%]

5)    Influence, measured by the number of research papers appearing in highly-influential

journals [5%]

6)    Citations, measured by the number of highly-cited research papers [5%]

7)    Broad Impact, measured by the university’s h-index [5%]

8)    Patents, measured by the number of international patent filings [5%]

Of particular note, PU ranked as follows:

National Rank: 4 (2nd among Indian Universities)

Quality of Education Rank: 333

Alumni Employment Rank: 167

Quality of Faculty Rank: 218+

Publications Rank: 720

Influence Rank: 910

Citations Rank: 368

Broad Impact Rank: 540

Patents Rank: 824

Overall Score: 44.8

Vice Chancellor Prof Arun Grover’s Quote- “It is satisfying to note that Panjab University continues to be adjudged among premier most academic institutes of India in numerous national and international surveys that assign different weight factors to a variety of parameters. It is a matter of pride that PU has standing comparable to best of the IITs, national centres of excellence, like, IISc/ TIFR/AIIMS/JNCASR, Central Universities like, Delhi University, BHU, University of Hyderabad, etc. An analysis of details of different rankings shall provide us guidance to set our priorities in attending to different sectors, where improvements are urgently required if we are to retain our competitive position, given our own limited resources and uncertain and inadequate Governmental support. The material contributions from our alumni who have done well and the Corporate Sector are our hope for support, if we have to bridge the gap between us and the best of the Universities in China and South Korea. The PU faculty has new confidence and enthusiasm today, I am looking forward to work with them during my second term.” / (SK Vyas, Jalandhar)