PU No. 3 in India in the US News & World Report
Rankings 2019
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Tele24 News
Chandigarh
Department of Physics, PU No.#1 In the
Global Rankings, Panjab University (PU), Chandigarh has been ranked as the
best University of the country and 3rd amongst best institutions of India, according to the US News and World Report Rankings 2019.
Apart from this, Department of Physics, PU is ranked No. 1 in India. 1250 top Universities
Globally have been included in this ranking and PU has global score of 44.5
with Global Rank of #551 way ahead of various peer Universities of India. The
next university, after PU, is AMU which stands at #9. After that
DU, BHU and Jadavpur are at #10, 12, 13 respectively. Followed by
Pune, Hyderabad and JNU at #15, 16 and 17 respectively. The
Rankings provide insight into how Universities compare globally. Since an increasing
number of students plan to enrol in Universities outside of their own country,
the Best Global Universities Ranking- which focus specifically on Academic Research
and Reputation overall- can held those applicants to compare institutions around
the world. The Rankings are based on 15 indicators which includes
Global Research Reputation (12.5%), Regional
Research Reputation (12.5%), Publications (10%), Books (2.5%), Conferences
(2.5%), Normalized citation impact (10%), Total Citations (7.5%), Number of publications
that are among the 10% most cited (12.5%), Percentage of total publications that
are among the 10% most cited (10%), International collaboration (5%),
Percentage of Total Publications with International collaborations (5%),
Number of highly cited papers that are among the top 1 percent most
cited in their respective field (5%) and Percentage of total
publications that are among the top 1 percent most highly cited papers
(5%). Prof. Raj Kumar, Vice Chancellor, PU congratulated the
students, research scholars, teachers and staff for improving on
global platform. He said that the Academic Research of PU has been commendable
and all concerted steps would be taken to take PU to greater
heights. Prof. Rajeev Puri, Officating Chairperson, Department of
Physics, PU showed gratitude towards students, researchers and the
faculty for all the cooperation and team work for taking the
department number 1 place in the country. Prof. M Rajivlochan, Director,
Internal Quality Assurance Cell, PU said that this ranking which
gives value to research and underplace the entirely subjective views about
a University, results in PU getting a high rank.
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