MHRD Awards Institute of Eminence Status to 5 More Public Institutions

The Human Resource Development Ministry has awarded Institute of Eminence status to 5 more public Institutions, said an official statement. Union HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank recently said that “Orders have been issued to five public higher education institutes declaring them as IoEs“. This development comes on the recommendations from University Grants Commission (UGC) and an Empowered Expert […]

MHRD Asks New IIMs About their Placement Details

Newer IIMs have been struggling to attract companies to recruit students even as placement season was fairly smooth in the older institutes. Alarmed by poor placements at the new Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs), the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) has asked them to submit placement details about recruitment and salaries for the 2015-2017 batches. Newer […]

PMRF Scheme: Eligibility Criteria Revised, Check How to Apply and Selection Process

On this Thursday, the HRD Ministry announced amendments in the Prime Minister’s Research Fellowship, PMRF Scheme to increase the number of students to pursue research in India. The announced PMRF 2020 scheme include reduction in the required GATE score, introduction of a lateral entry option among others. The candidates pursuing master’s level Engineering courses from […]

4% EWS Seats in IITs Academic Year 2019-20

The Indian Institutes of Technology will offer, on average 500 seats to Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) candidates from the 2019-20 academic year, reported Hindustan Times. The move follows the Centre’s introduction of 10% reservations in jobs and educational institutions to economically weaker sections in January 2019. According to the tech school officials, this year most of the 23 IITs will […]

10 Top Law Colleges in India: NIRF Ranking 2018, NLSIU Bangalore Ranked No. 1

The National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) rankings were announced by the Union Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Prakash Javadekar at an event in the Vigyan Bhavan on Tuesday, April 03, with the National Law School of India University (NLSIU) Bengaluru leading the top Law Colleges in India list. Unlike last year, this time the ranking was released under Nine categories compared to Five Categories of […]

10 Top Universities in the World and in India 2018 : US News

The fourth annual U.S. News Best Global Universities Rankings were produced to provide insight into the top universities ranked globally. Every year, millions of graduate and undergraduate students study at a foreign University. The most recent figures from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development  (OECD) show that over 4.5 million students enroll in a University located in a country where […]