Institutes of Eminence to help varsities spread wings

Freedom to set salaries and curriculum proposed

The University of Delhi was ranked eighth among Indian higher education institutes, in the Union ministry of human resource development (MHRD)’s National Institutional Ranking Framework 2017.

The Indian Institute of Science at Bengaluru was ranked number one. While IISc has a faculty to student ratio of 1:8.2, Delhi university’s (DU’s) is 1:22.9.

Globally, DU gets ranked in the 601-800 band on the Times Higher Education rankings. The faculty-to-student ratio gets worse nationally, with the Association of Indian Universities estimating India’s average for higher educational institutions at around 1:27.

This could change for at least the 10 public and 10 private higher education institutions