Merit at BITS Pilani

As Camelpost once said:

BITS Pilani has ensured the creation of a classless, casteless society and thousands of BITS alumni take pride in identifying themselves as Indians and not belonging to any caste, religion or language.

Never ever did we see any discrimination towards or for a student@ BITS based on caste/language/religion and never will we see it too, for in India today we are the ONLY UNIVERSITY which does not entertain any quota; be it Management/NRI/SC/ST/OBC. The only admission criteria at BITS is Merit with equal rights to all, and it will always remain so.

BITS Pilani, IIT Bombay, NIT Trichy, NITK Surathkal, DCE, ISM Dhanbad and Jadhavpur University give Dataquest T-schools 2008 rankings a Skip

A revolution has started. 

After BITS Pilani decided to quit participating in India Today rankings since 2005, BITS decided to give the Dataquest 2008 rankings a skip too. IIT Bombay and NIT Trichy followed suit and quit participating in DQ rankings. Since 2006, NITK Surthkal has been giving rankings a miss too. Jadhavpur university, another very reputed university in east-India gave a miss to these rankings too. ISM Dhanbad isn't found in them either. DCE decided to ignore these rankings as well. Only 6 out of 20 NITs are visible in the rankings.

One wonders what credibility these rankings have, with India's major and most reputed universities deciding not to participate in them:

IIT Bombay

BITS Pilani

NIT Trichy

NITK Surathkal

Delhi College of Engineering (DCE)

ISM Dhanbad

Jadhavpur University

Arguably all the above universities have the potential to rank in top 15 universities in India, with 6 of them (IITB, BITS, NITT, NITK, DCE, ISM) having the potential to rank in top 10 too. If 6 out of top 10 potential frontrunners decide to give these rankings a miss, then surely the credibility of these rankings is doubtable.

Some Surprises in the rankings:

1. 14/20 NITs missing/did not participate.

2. DA IICT at 12th. Though I know it is an upcoming college, but surpassing IIIT-A, BIT-Ranchi, PSG Tech, MNNIT in a year? Sounds undigestible.

3. New Horizon College of Engineering at 20th.

4. Amrita School of Engineering at 21st.

5. Agrasen at 25th.

All these were placed above Manipal Institute of Technology.

6. Almost all the colleges (Except AIT, PESIT, Galgotia) below the 30th rank are relatively unknown.

7. In HR perception MIT tops the list, and IIT Kharagpur, Guwahati are no where to be found.

8. A major flaw in these rankings is that they equate T-Schools with IT schools and take into account majorly IT placements and IT recruiters (During perception rankings). It's about time that they understood that T-Schools are "TECHNOLOGY" Schools imparting complete "ENGINEERING" skills to their students.

9. On a lighter note, the ranking lists IIT Madras as "IIIT Chennai". Yes you read it right! "IIIT" and not "IIT". "Chennai" and not "Madras". The last time I checked they were still called by the name of IIT Madras. Also I didn't know that they were calling IIIT-A as Indian Institute of "Informantion" Technology now-a-days. 

It is about time that these magazines, which self-righteously take upon themselves the responsibility of publishing such rankings without any credibility, learn to either pursue responsible journalism, or decide to shut down their businesses. I would not be surprised if more reputed IITs/NITs decide to ignore these rankings which do nothing, but misguide the future generation of students.

http://dqindia.ciol.com/content/top_stories/2008/108060901.asp

http://dqindia.ciol.com/images08/Cover%20story%20table.pdf