Top colleges of different streams

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In India, technical education has become very expensive. Education in government institutions is affordable but seats are limited. Private institutions are mushrooming up in different fields of technical education and charging exorbitant fees for imparting education. In absence of proper guidance and knowledge, students find great difficulties in selecting approved and reputed institutions. Another disadvantage of geting admitted to an institution not having good reputation is difficulty in getting an education loan granted by the financial instituitions. Such students should verify whether a particular instituion is included or not in the approved list of institutions. Fortunately, Few leading publication houses like "India Today" and "Outllok" have taken up the responsibility on their shoulders and based on survey results, publishing the results and doing thankless job of ranking of institutes of different streams. However, their results help students in selecting institutes approved by competent authority and providing good education..

In India, annual surveys of academic excellence are made by two publication houses and these are 1. The India Today Group and 2. Outlook group

While rankings by these groups are largely a perception-based score but this perceptions is from within the the Indian academic community. Its not easy to make a quantitative survey as gaining access to such a large data (about 18,000 colleges) is not only difficult but next to impossible as it will require huge efforts, a large chunk of human resources and money. As per the Aroon Purie, Editor-in-chief of India Today, UGC backed National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) could get only 20% of the college under its ambit in 14 years of its existence as revealed in the editorial remarks.

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India Today-AC Nelson-ORG-Marg Survey of Colleges (1997-2008):

1. Arts Colleges: Loyola, Chennai, St. Xaviers, Mumbai, Presidency, Kolkata, St. Stephens, Delhi, LSR, Delhi and MCC Chennai are among the top colleges as evident from last 12 years survey results. Except MCC, all other colleges secured either first, second or third rank once or more than once in the last 12 years. MCC could secure only third place in the year 2002.

2. Science Colleges: Same colleges gained access to top three slots in science stream excluding LSR, Delhi. In the Science stream, MCC, Chennai, occuped the top slot once (2003) in 12 years.

3. Commerce Colleges: SRCC Delhi ruled the scene in all the 12 years. The second or 3rd place was occupied by same college (listed in Arts and Science stream). B M College of Commerce, Pune and St. Joseph's (Commerce), Banglore secured each third rank once in 12 years. MCC, Chennai did not have entry in commerce stream.

4. Law Colleges: Except years 2008 and 2005, NLSIU, Banglore ranked first in all other years. NALSAR, Hyderabad secured first rank in 2008 and ILS, Pune in the year 2005. Other colleges securing either second or third ranks were UCL, Banglore, Campus Law centre, DU, NLIU, Bhopal, Symbiosis Law College, Pune, Faculty of Law, BHU, Govt. College of Law, Mumbai, and Law College, Pune.

5. Engineering Colleges: Different IIT's secured all the three top ranks. Other than IIT's, only BITS Pilani could secure third rank twice (2001 & 2002) in the 12 years surveys.

6. Colleges of Medicine: AIMMS, Delhi secured first rank in all the years except 2002. In that particular year, CMC, Vellore, gained access to the top rank. Other colleges having access to either second or third place included AFMC, Pune, BMC, Banglore, SIMC, Banglore, KMC Mumbai, LNMC, Delhi and JIPMER, Puducherry.

Top Ten Law Colleges:

The List of top 10 Law colleges for the year 2008 as per The India Today-AC NELSEN-ORG-MARG Survey ranking is given below.

1. NALSAR, Hyderabad

2. NLSIU, Bangalore

3. Campus Law Centre, Delhi University, Delhi

4. National Law University, Bhopal

5. NUJS, Kolkata

6. ILS Law College, Pune

7. Government Law College, Mumbai

8. Symbiosis Society's Law College, Pune

9. National Law Institute University, Jodhpur

10. Faculty of Law, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi

Top Ten Commerce Colleges:

The List of top 10 Commerce colleges for the year 2008 as per The India Today-AC NELSEN-ORG-MARG Survey ranking is given below.

1. Shri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi

2. Loyola College, Chennai

3. St. Xavier's College, Kolkata

4. Lady Shri Ram College for Women, Delhi

5. Symbiosis Society's College of Arts & Commerce, Pune

6. Christ College, Banglore

7. Presidency College, Chennai

8. Madras Christian College, Chennai

9. St. Joseph's College, Banglore

10. Stella Maris College, Chennai

Top 15 Fashion Technology Institutes as per Outlook survey for 2008

1. NID, Ahmedabad

2. NIFT, Delhi

3. NIFT, Mumbai

4. NIFT, Hyderabad

5. NIFT, kolkata

6. NIFT, Chennai

7. NIFT, Bangalore

8. NIFT, Gandhinagar

9. Pearl Academy of Fashion, New Delhi

10. Rachana Sansad College, Mumbai

11. Mod' Art College, Mumbai

12. SNDT University, Mumbai

13. School of Fashion Tech., Pune

14. NIFT, Mohali

15. JD Institute of Fashion Tech., Delhi