IIT Delhi and IIT Mumbai ranked among top 200 Universities.
Two of the Indian Institutes of Technology have been ranked among the top 200 universities of the world in a list dominated by American educational institutions.
IIT Delhi and IIT Mumbai, which found a place among the elite institutions, have been ranked 154 and 174 respectively by the Times Higher Education-QS World University Rankings.
America's Harvard University tops the list followed by Yale University, also from the U.S., while the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford, U.K. were placed third and fourth respectively.
Over a third of the top 100 institutes are based in the U.S., even as nine Asian institutions have been included within the top 50, including three based in Hong Kong.
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Seoul National University are the two new entrants into the list this year.
China has as many as five universities in the top 200, with Peking University placed at 50 and Tsinghua University at 56.
British universities have slipped down the world rankings, with Cambridge and Oxford losing ground to Harvard and Yale, while fewer British universities are in the top 200 list, than last year.
Britain has 17 of its universities in the top 100, down from 19 last year, while it has a total of 29 universities in the top 200, one less than last year.
See the entire list here along with comparisons to last year : Times Higher Education-QS World University Rankings
The Government of Punjab today, signed a tripartite agreement with Indian School of Business (ISB) and four Indian Business Leaders to set up a second ISB campus at Knowledge City, Mohali. The Agreement was signed in the presence of Punjab’s Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal by Anjali Bhawra - Secretary, Higher Education, Government of Punjab, Rajat Gupta -Chairman, ISB, and four Founder Supporters of the ISB campus at Mohali, Analjit Singh - Chairman & Managing Director of Max India Limited, Rakesh Bharti Mittal - Vice-Chairman & Managing Director of Bharti Enterprises Limited, Sunil Kant Munjal - Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer of Hero Corporate Service Limited, Atul Punj - Chairman, Punj Lloyd Group.
The 70 acres ISB campus site at Mohali has been allotted by the Government of Punjab on a 99 years lease at Rs. 1 per acre annually, as a part of its vision to establish a world class premier management institute at Knowledge City, Mohali. Based on an invitation by the Government, the four Indian Business Leaders along with ISB submitted their Expression of Interest to set up a second campus of ISB at Mohali, along with their intent to make a significant financial contribution for establishing the Campus. The first academic session at the ISB campus in Mohali is expected to commence in 2012.
Speaking at the occasion, Mr. Bikram Singh Majithia, Information & Public Relations, Water Supply & Sanitation, Science & Technology and Environment Minister, Government of Punjab, said “It gives me great pleasure to announce the setting up of a new campus of ISB at Mohali. This has been possible due to the vision of our Chief Minister Sardar Parkash Singh Badal and the unrelenting effort of our Party President, Sardar Sukhbir Singh Badal. It will help facilitate the emergence of Mohali on the national map as an important centre of higher learning, especially with other national institutes of excellence coming up here. I want to thank the four Founder Supporters Analjit Singh, Rakesh Bharti Mittal, Sunil Kant Munjal & Atul Punj for reiterating their support and commitment to Punjab by helping make this a reality. We will provide all the support and assistance needed to ensure that the Campus becomes functional on time.”
The ISB, with the support of existing associate schools, Wharton School and Kellogg School of Management, will set-up and run the Mohali campus, just like its Hyderabad campus, as a world class academic institution for providing Post Graduate Programmes in Management and short duration Executive Education Programmes. The ISB campus at Mohali will have the following four specialist Institutes, termed as Centres of Excellence, for promoting research and offering additional specialisations in the Post Graduate Programme:
– Max India Institute of Healthcare Management
– Bharti Institute of Public Policy
– BML Munjal Institute of Manufacturing and Operation Excellence
– Punj Lloyd Institute of Physical Infrastructure Management
The ISB campus at Mohali proposes to have 280 seats in its Post Graduate Programme. It will also have several short duration Executive Education Programmes where approximately 750 professionals will be able to participate.
ISB will have a unified governance structure, with the ISB Board as the Statutory Body overseeing and supporting both campuses at Hyderabad and Mohali. A Deputy Dean, will be appointed to run the ISB campus at Mohali, including the four Centres of Excellence. It will additionally have the benefit of a Campus Advisory Board while the Centres of Excellence will be advised by their individual Institute Advisory Councils. The ISB faculty will be available for teaching on both campuses and all standards and processes will be common across both campuses.
The Founder Supporters of the ISB campus at Mohali, who are playing a key role in setting up the Business School, will contribute a sum of Rs. 50 crores each. While they are members of the ISB Executive Board, they will also be represented on the Campus Advisory Board of ISB campus at Mohali and will Chair the respective Institute Advisory Councils. The Founder Supporters will extend their existing support for Placements/Internships, Programmes on Campus and Visiting Faculty to the ISB campus at Mohali.
Read More at : Business Wire India
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Data Interpretation
This section had six Data Interpretation sets and one Logical Reasoning set, each set comprising 3 . 4 questions.
The section was a good mixture of calculation and reasoning based questions. A good selection of questions would have led to the attempt of 12 . 14 question in around 40 minutes.
The very first selection should have been the set based on .different coloured houses.. The second selection . the set based on .Stage-I, Stage-II matches. . involved very basic reasoning and was easier compare to other reasoning based sets. Then the set based on the scatter diagram, though involved some calculation, should have been solved.
Then the sets based on .five departments. and .bar graph. both involved calculation, but solvable with some calculation shortcuts. The two sets on .shares. and .cut-offs. were time consuming as well as required more reasoning.
Problem Solving
The Problem Solving section was much simpler than last year. It was closer to CAT 2006 than CAT 2007 in terms of level of difficulty.
Although the number of questions remained 25 as last year, the questions were relatively much simpler and it was quite possible to solve around 15 questions with a high accuracy level in 50 minutes.
There were only two Data Sufficiency questions but they were more tricky and confusing as compared to the rest.
The question on .five horses. resembled an LR question and was a bit complex as it involved three possibilities, and test-takers might have missed out one or two.
There were more problems involving counting principles, and Modern Math came to the forefront constituting almost 25% of the section. However the questions were quite easy and tested only reasoning from basic concepts.
Geometry took a back seat, while Algebra and Arithmetic remained at the forefront just like last year. The question on finding the circumradius was quite tough to conceptualize.
Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension
This time the Verbal section of the CAT held a major surprise: an increase in the number of questions to 40 (and consequently a greater weightage to Verbal in the entire test). The focus on reasoning seen in the past 2 years has diminished, and the VA questions this time were more based on grammar, usage and vocabulary concepts.
There were no new types of constructs in VA, while old constructs like Fill in the Blanks and Inappropriate Usage made a comeback this year after several years of absence. The only twist in the VA questions was that the grammar-based questions also involved identifying punctuation, spelling and logical errors.
VA and RC had an equal number of questions: 20 each. There were four RC passages: on Sociology, Language, History and Art respectively, all with 5 questions each. The passages were, for the most part, of medium length and fairly easy to understand. The questions were a mix of inferential and direct questions, with a handful of vocab-based questions thrown in.
On the whole, it was a fairly easy section, with plenty of chances of maximizing one.s score.
