University of Hyderabad ranked number 4 in India, tops in South

Hyderabad: The University of Hyderabad (UoH) has been ranked among the best Universities in the Country. The HANSA-WEEK research survey for the year 2019 has ranked UoH at fourth position. Maintaining its position at number four that it got in 2018, it is among the top 80 Multidisciplinary universities of the country that include state, central, private and deemed universities. Jawahar Lal Nehru University (JNU), Banaras Hindu University (BHU) and University of Delhi and are at number one, two and three respectively.

UoH is ranked at the first position among the top multidisciplinary Universities in the South. "We are pleased to be ranked among the top four universities in the country and this has been possible only due to the efforts of our faculty, students, alumni and non-teaching employees", said Prof. Appa Rao Podile, Vice-Chancellor, UoH. We have initiated a few additional quality measures that would help to improve our position at National and International Level, he added.

The WEEK-HANSA Research Best Universities survey 2019 was conducted by collecting factual information from more than 570 leading Universities in India. Various parameters including age and accreditation, infrastructure and other facilities, academic programmes, intellectual resource, research, student quality, alumni and industry exposure and placements were used to calculate the factual score. The composite score has been arrived at by combining the perceptual and the factual scores to determine the final rank for each University. The overall result of the survey has been published in The Week magazine issue dated May 26.