Hyderabad: The city-based University of Hyderabad (UoH) has been ranked among the best Universities in the country.
The HANSA-WEEK research survey for the year 2017 has ranked UoH at fourth position. Maintaining its position at number four that it got in 2016, UoH and Osmania University (Rank 5) are the only two Universities from Hyderabad that find a place in the top 75 Multidisciplinary Universities of the Country that include State, Central, Private and Deemed Universities.
University of Delhi, Jawahar Lal Nehru University (JNU) and Banaras Hindu University are at number one, two and three respectively.
UoH is ranked at the first position among the top multidisciplinary Universities in the South.
“We are pleased to be among the top universities in the country and this has been possible only due to the team efforts of our faculty, students and non-teaching employees”, said Prof. Appa Rao Podile, Vice-Chancellor, UoH.
It has been our constant endeavour to encourage quality research among the faculty and emphasize on innovation and critical thinking among our students. We will always strive to be among the best institutions not only in the Country but also at the Global Level, he added.
The WEEK-HANSA Research Best Universities survey 2017 was conducted by collecting factual information from more than 500 leading Universities in India.
Various parameters including Age and Accreditation, infrastructure and other facilities, academic programmes, intellectual resource, research, student quality, alumni & industry exposure, and placements were used to calculate the factual score.
The composite score has been arrived at by combining the perceptual and the factual scores to determine the final rank for each University. (INN)