India
India's Top Biotech Schools
Ranking of institutes imparting biotech education in India.
Biotech is the latest sunrise sector. Analysts feel that
biotech industry may surpass IT and ITeS in overall
growth and employment generation, forex earnings, patent registration, etc.
India is considered as one of the hottest biotech destinations. And several
people across the world believe that India will be able to produce companies of
the level of Amgen in the future.
India's skill and capabilities in biotech is well
recognized. But the rapid growth of the industry will ultimately depend on
availability of quality manpower and good educational institutions in country.
In last one decade, a large number biotech institutes were set up. However, not
much has been done for benchmarking of these institutes for their own relative
assessment, for industry and for aspiring students. In order to fill the void,
BioSpectrum conducted a study to rank the biotech institutes last year and has
continued with the effort this year as well.
BioSpectrum's Top Biotech Schools 2005 study included
information pertaining to BTech, Masters and PhD courses but not of BSc.
courses. This study was conducted in association with CyberMedia Research. To
maintain objectivity and avoid biases in ranking the institutes, CyberMedia
Research decided to base its methodology on measurable and quantifiable data. As
a result, the research team did not seek perceptions and opinions of
stakeholders such as students or industry to rank the institutes. Both
CyberMedia Research team and BioSpectrum team worked together on this study.
While CyberMedia Research team worked on conceptualizing the study, designing
the questionnaire and analyzing the data for ranking of the institutes,
BioSpectrum team decided on the institutes to be invited for participation in
the study, co-ordination with the biotech institutes for collection,
sufficiency, adequacy and consistency of the data shared by them.
Jawaharlal Lal Nehru University, the top institute
Amongst all institutes and colleges, which are imparting
education at the undergraduate and/ or postgraduate level in the area of
Biotech, Jawaharlal Lal Nehru University emerges as the best top ranked
institution in the country. It is followed by University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad
at the second position, Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai at the third
position, IIT, New Delhi at the fourth and Anna University, Chennai at the fifth
position.
Rank 1... Jawaharlal Lal Nehru University, Delhi
Rank 2... University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad
Rank 3... Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai
Rank 4... IIT, New Delhi
Rank 5... Anna University, Chennai
As one would expect, amongst the Top 20 Biotech institutions
in India, 15 are public and only five are in the private sector (Table 1).
Barring last few years in which private sector has invested money in higher
education; education has largely been in the public domain. Amity Institute of
Biotechnology (MBA Biotechnology), Noida, Jaypee Institute of Information
Technology, Biotechnology, Noida, The Oxford College of Science, Bangalore,
Shree Manibhai & Navalben Virani Science College, Rajkot, T John College,
Bangalore are the five institutions in private sector which occupy slots amongst
India's Top 20 institutions in Biotech area. It may further be observed that
only Amity Institute of Biotechnology, MBA Biotechnology, Noida figures amongst
top 10 institutes.
| Table
1: Top 20 Ranking of Institutes Offering Biotech Courses |
| Name of the Organization |
Public-1
Private-2 |
Final Score
(weighted) |
Ranking |
| Jawaharlal Nehru
University, Centre for Biotechnology, Delhi |
1 |
49.69 |
1 |
| School of Life
Sciences, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad |
1 |
44.15 |
2 |
| Institute of
Chemical Technology, Food Engineering & Technology Department , Mumbai |
1 |
38.69 |
3 |
| IIT, (Department Of
Biochemical Engineering & Biotechnology), Delhi |
1 |
28.49 |
4 |
| Anna University,
Centre For Biotechnology, Chennai. |
1 |
25.21 |
5 |
| University of Pune,
Department of Management Sciences, Pune |
1 |
23.31 |
6 |
| Madurai Kamaraj
University, School of Biotechnology, Madurai |
1 |
22.82 |
7 |
| Amity Institute of
Biotechnology, MBA Biotechnology, Noida |
2 |
22.21 |
8 |
| Entomology Research
Institute, Loyola College, Chennai |
1 |
21.77 |
9 |
| GGS Indraprastha
University, University School of Biotechnology, Delhi |
1 |
20.66 |
10 |
| Jaypee Institute of
Information Technology, Biotechnology, Noida |
2 |
17.01 |
11 |
| The Oxford College
of Science, Department Of Biotechnology , Bangalore |
2 |
16.81 |
12 |
| Banasthali
Vidyapith, Department Of Bioscience & Biotechnology, Banasthali |
1 |
16.44 |
13 |
Tamil Nadu Agricultural University,
Department of Plant
Molecular Biology & Biotechnology, Coimbatore |
1 |
16.33 |
14 |
National Institute of Pharmaceutical
Education & Research, Department
Of Biotechnology & Department Of Pharmaceutical technology, Mohali |
1 |
15.36 |
15 |
| M.S University of
Baroda, Department of Microbiology & Biotechnology Centre, Vadodara |
1 |
15.03 |
16 |
| Bangalore
University, Department Of Microbiology, Bangalore |
1 |
14.7 |
17 |
| Calcutta
University, Dr. B C Guha Centre For Genetic Engineering &
Biotechnology, Kolkata |
1 |
14.09 |
18 |
| Shree Manibhai
& Navalben Virani Science College, Department Of Biotechnology ,
Rajkot |
2 |
13.67 |
19 |
| T. John College,
Department Of Biotechnology, Bangalore |
2 |
13.45 |
20 |
One big difference between the private and the public
institutes is that the private players focused more of procuring the placements.
And the students from the public institutions mostly preferred to go for higher
education. Probably, this is why institutes offering MBA Biotech-Amity and
Pune-have made it to the top 10. In fact Pune University ranks very high (#6)
in the overall scheme of things.
As has been mentioned earlier, four parameters have been used
to arrive at the overall score or ranking-Faculty, Infrastructure, Industry
interaction and Placements. As one would observe, a lot of new institutes have
been in this list. The reason for this is the biotech education in the private
sector is fairly new and a lot of them stressed on building their
infrastructure. The priorities of the students joining the private institutes
compared to the established institutes are different. They want to go to the
institute with the faculty and repute and pursue higher studies.
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