Tuesday 10 July 2012

http://www.lpu.in/


These are some of the private universities I have come across-- there are some more.
One of them, LPU, has this lovely website with nice pictures. The library looks amazing, the buildings are awesome. Their TV ad is also impressive-- 18000 students accomodated in their hostel!!! I mean, 2000 young men and women are tough number to maintain in hostels. (However, the name 'Lovely Profesional University' is a bit much.)

In some of them, you cannot find out anything about the faculty and in others, there is just some details about the few top profs. - nothing about the rest.
Galgotia has 5,
Amity has 4
Could not locate any in the Sarda U website--maybe I didn't look hard enough
LPU --cannot find any names.
They are all voted ' best university' by some organisation or the other.
I really wonder what they are really like.

On the other hand, SRM and VIT etc have websites with much more relevant information. For example, VIT and SRM have NAAC accreditation.

2 comments:

Vikram said...

Shiv Nadar University does better in this regard. Their engineering school website had the qualifications and research/teaching work of all their faculty. http://snu.edu.in/eng_facility.aspx

From new government universities, Gautam Buddha University (Greater Noida) also has the qualifications and publication details of the faculty on its webpage.
http://www.gbu.ac.in/


This information is actually a pretty decent first order measure of the standards of a college. I think a simple regulation requiring all universities to put names, qualifications and publication of atleast last 5 years will help students and parents make a more informed choice.

L said...

Yes. The kind of faculty and student body are the most important factor.

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