Instructions to participate in
India Today-MDRA Best Colleges Ranking Survey
2025
How to participate in the survey
Rankings of professional and academic courses have existed for over a decade but in today's complex and dynamic environment, where a large number of courses and institutes have come up during last few years, it is pertinent to separate the wheat from the chaff and bring out the best Professional and Academic Degrees/ Courses being offered in the country out of almost 50,000 colleges and institutes spread across the length and breadth of the country.
Country's most prestigious and largest-circulated weekly newsmagazine India Today has started its annual exercise of ranking Best Colleges in India in association with MDRA. This survey is an attempt to set the benchmark for tracking institutes that provide best education in India.
The following 14 courses/ degrees will be ranked:
- Engineering (B.Tech)
- Medical (MBBS)
- Dental (BDS)
- Law (LLB/ BA LLB)
- Architecture (B. Arch)
- Hotel Management (BHM/ BHMCT)
- Fashion Design (B. Fashion Design)
- Mass Communication /Journalism (PG in Mass Comm./ Journalism)
- Master of Social Work (MSW)
- Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA)
- Bachelor of Computer Application (BCA)
- Bachelor of Arts (BA)
- Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.)
- Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com.)
India Today-MDRA Best Colleges Ranking survey has transitioned entirely to an online format. No requirement to download and upload the objective questionnaire anymore. To begin, please register your college and proceed to fill out the form online. Before registering your college for the survey, we kindly request you to carefully review the instructions provided below.
- The survey results will appear in India Today, across various platforms such as their weekly newsmagazine and group publications in print, digital, and electronic formats.
- Please fill in information for course/s offered at a particular campus only.
- The Institute should be offering full-time classroom program.
- The Institute should have a minimum of 3 passed-out batches for the courses they are applying for by December 31st, 2024.
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This online form has eleven sections plus an abbreviation page –
- Institute Profile
- Accreditation & Further Education
- Student Diversity
- Fees & Funding
- Student Selection Process
- Faculty Quality
- Living Experience
- Personality Development & Leadership
- Academic Progression, Internship & Placement
- Contact details for Perceptual Survey
- Institute Contact Details
- Please ensure that all sections are duly filled in. Do not leave any questions blank. If you do not have data, put "0" instead of leaving it blank.
- India Today has a copyright over the survey and rankings.
- By participating in this ranking, the participating institute agrees that it would provide full cooperation and documentary evidence of the data/ information provided. At the time of visit of MDRA/India Today representative for verification, the institute would ensure complete cooperation.
- Universities are requested to provide information only for the B. Tech/ BE program. The number of classrooms, books and all other information should pertain to the B. Tech/ BE Program only, and not the entire University/ Campus or other Departments.
- If any information provided by the institute is found to be incorrect during verification, the institute will be ineligible for participation in the ranking process.
- Until stated otherwise, all information is to be provided for Academic Year (AY) 2023-2024. In some places, college/institute have been used interchangeably.
- No fee/money is to be paid by any institute for participating in India Today-MDRA Best Colleges ranking to anyone in any manner/mode.
- India Today/ MDRA reserves full rights to include or exclude any institute from this ranking without any obligations to disclose the reasons.
- India Today/ MDRA would directly coordinate/ deal with the participating institute itself and NOT with any third party/ person appointed by the institute such as PR, Advertising & Marketing agencies in any manner whatsoever.
- To take part in the survey, kindly register your college by visiting https://bestcolleges.mdraonline.com/.
- Once registered, you'll be able to complete the form online. You can save your entered data and submit the form at your convenience.
- If any information provided by the institute is found to be incorrect during verification, the institute will be ineligible for participation in the ranking process.
- Please submit your participation form along with supporting documents by 28th February 2025.
- Please make sure that the size of any supporting document file does not exceed 15MB.
- Do not forget to upload the “Declaration Form” duly signed & sealed by the head of the institute.
- Please contact us in case of any query/ clarification:
Mr. Abhishek Agrawal (Executive Director)
Marketing & Development Research Associates
#34 B, Research House, Community Centre, Saket, New Delhi-110 017
Phone: +91-11-26522244, 49849166 Email: info@mdraonline.com
Website: www.mdraonline.com
For any query, please contact:
Mr. Abnish Jha (Project Director)
Marketing & Development Research Associates
#34 B, Research House, Community Centre, Saket, New Delhi-110 017
Phone: +91-11-26522244, 49849166, Cell: +91-9582254611
Email: abnish@mdraonline.com, bestcolleges@mdraonline.com
For queries related to filling out the online form, please reach out to:
Mr. Vaibhav Gupta (Deputy Research Manager)
Marketing & Development Research Associates
#34-B, Research House, Community Centre, Saket, New Delhi- 110 017
Cell: +91-9899046582, Phone: +91-11-26522244, +91-11-49849166