India Today has released its annual list of best colleges in India.
In the first of a series, we bring you the top 20 colleges for science.
Leading education magazine India Today has been publishing its annual list of best colleges in India for two decades now.
In its 22nd year, it has released its annual rankings of Top 100 institutions across streams.
Methodology
'After preparing a list of colleges from multiple sources, we sought factual data from them and simultaneously sent the list to experts for perceptual scores,' the editor explains in its May issue.
'The factual data provided by the colleges was thoroughly scrutinised. The final ranking was based on factual and perceptual scores-60 percent weightage was given to factual data and 40 per cent to perceptual score,' it added.
The institutions were rated for multiple factors including intake quality and governance (score out of 250); academic excellence (250), infrastructure and living experience (175), personality and leadership development (175), career progression and placement (150). The objective score and perceptual score were out of 1000 each.
Presenting the Top 20 of 100 science colleges as per India Today's findings.
1. Miranda House, Delhi
Overall score: 1,830.9/2,000
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2. Hindu College, Delhi
Overall score: 1,770.6
Established in 1899, it is one of the oldest colleges in the state.
Photograph: Kind courtesy Hindu College
3. St Stephen's College, Delhi
Overall score: 1,768.6
Photograph: Kind courtesy St Stephen's College
4. Kirori Mal College, Delhi
Overall score: 1,725.6
Photograph: Kind courtesy Kirori Mal College
5. Loyola College, Chennai
Overall score: 1,714.1
Its distinguished alumni includes Verghese Kurien, father of White Revolution, former finance minister P Chidambaram and tennis icon Vijay Amritraj.
Photograph: Kind courtesy Loyola College
6. Madras Christian College, Chennai
Overall score: 1,702.5
PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi, Padma Shri Raja Ramanna, Gemini Ganesan are among its notable alumni.
Photograph: Kind courtesy Loyola College
7. Hansraj College, Delhi
Overall score: 1,672.7
It intakes over 4,000 students in its undergraduate courses and over 800 students for its post graduate programmes.
Shah Rukh Khan, Naveen Jindal and Anurag Kashyap have studied here.
Photograph: Kind courtesy Hansraj College
8. Department of Sciences, Christ University, Bengaluru
Overall score: 1,671.7
It was established in 1969 and gained autonomy status in 2004.
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9. Stella Maris College, Chennai
Overall score: 1,616.1
Today it offers courses in science, arts, commerce and information technology.
Preetha Reddy, managing director of Apollo Hospitals and Samantha Ruth Prabhu are among its notable alumni.
Photograph: Kind courtesy Stella Maris College, Chennai
10. Women's Christian College, Chennai
Overall score: 1,592.7
Currently, it caters to over 2,700 students across its undergraduate and post graduate programmes.
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11. Deen Dayal Upadhyaya College, New Delhi
Overall score: 1,568.7
In the national rankings released by the HRD ministry, it was positioned at number 8.
Besides specialised courses and sports facilities, it has a library spread across three floors for the benefit of students.
Photograph: Kind courtesy DDUC
12. Atma Ram Sanatan Dharma College, New Delhi
Overall score: 1,568.6
It offers courses in science, commerce, arts, physical science and computer science.
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13. Mount Carmel College, Bengaluru
Overall score: 1,561.4
Former Miss Earth Nicole Faria, badminton player Aparna Popat, Deepika Padukone have all studied here.
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14. Gargi College, New Delhi
Overall score: 1,554.7
Huma Qureshi, Sanya Malhotra and former Miss India Universe Urvashi Rautela have studied here.
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15. St Joseph's College, Bengaluru
Overall score: 1,548.1
Besides pure sciences, arts and commerce, it offers courses in visual communication and big data analytics as well.
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16. Mithibai College, Mumbai
Overall score: 1,545.8
Over 35,000 students have passed out of the college so far.
Ekta Kapoor, Shahid Kapoor, Ajay Devgan, Kajol, Kareena Kapoor, Rani Mukerj -- it has an endless list of celeb alumni.Photograph: Kind courtesy Mithibai College
17. St Xavier's College, Mumbai
Overall score: 1,527.6
Besides undergraduate and postgraduate, the college offers diploma and certificate courses in science, arts, commerce and management.
The institute boasts of a long list of distinguished alumni including Wipro chairman Azim Premji, Reliance chairman Mukesh Ambani, author Amish Tripathy, actors Anil Kapoor, Vidya Balan and late Smita Patil among others.
Photograph: Kind courtesy St Xavier's College
18. Goswami Ganesh Dutta Sanatan Dharma College, Chandigarh
Overall score: 1,517.9
It provides general, vocational and professional courses at undergraduate and post graduate level.
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19. Maharaja Agrasen College, New Delhi
Overall score: 1,516.2
Its 10-acre campus offers facilities like language laboratory, an open university and research centre, library and conference hall.
Photograph: Kind courtesy Maharaja Agrasen College
20. Acharya Narendra Dev College, New Delhi
Overall score: 1,514.1
It offers courses in biomedical sciences, chemistry, physical sciences and life sciences at the undergraduate level.
In fact, it is the first college to have introduced Bachelor of Science (honours) biomedical sciences.
Photograph: Kind courtesy Acharya Narendra Dev College