College of the Year - 2019

What after completing 12th standard? Obviously, a student looks forward to continuing his or her education in a reputed college to earn a degree in order to join a superior workforce or to continue studying further. Fields like science, engineering, humanities, commerce, media and journalism, management and many others offer degrees to produce potentially high income. Not only on a monetary basis, but a degree earned in college also instills permanent knowledge and skills in a student, which opens doors of opportunities for a lifetime. During their years in college, students get exposed to more life realities; they learn how to work in collaboration, how to lead and how to take logical spontaneous actions.

Being the third-largest higher education system in the world, India is now expanding the higher education structure rapidly by adding more colleges. The latest report presented by the 'All India Survey on Higher Education' states that 39,701 colleges are imparting quality education. At present, the country is set to become one of the youngest nations in the world by 2030 having 140million college-goers. Governing the higher education system is the University Grants Commission. While this governing body oversees accreditation for higher learning, the Department of Higher Education, MHRD (Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India) stays accountable for the growth of the fundamental infrastructure.

Aiming to augment the gross enrolment ratio in higher education by intensifying access through all modes, MHRD is now promoting collaboration with the international community, foreign governments, regional and international institutions for the progression of universal knowledge. It is creating awareness among all the sections of society to enroll in colleges. MHRD is vehemently supporting initiatives like the incorporation of technology in higher education, skill development through vocational education for improving efficiency, research facilities to make knowledge generation environment and creativity in Higher Education. Besides, India has become a rich source of skill-based workers.

For students looking for admission in prestigious colleges, in this edition of the Higher Education Review magazine, we bring to you a list of colleges imparting holistic education in different branches. The readers will get to know the topmost colleges, selected based on their teaching pedagogy and supreme curriculum and featured as 'College of the Year - 2019'.