It is heartening to know that the department of higher education has decided to go for a comprehensive ranking system to assess the performance and excellence of colleges across Jammu and Kashmir.
The ranking system is not only going to impact the education system but it will definitely bring a competitive atmosphere in colleges, most of which hitherto would function as a routine educational institutions.
Besides, this ranking system would be a useful guide for students in making a decision about whether a college is doing well in a general academic area compared with its peer institutions. Earlier the students would randomly choose their colleges in J&K which was sometimes “misleading and amenable to manipulation”.
The ranking will definitely prove helpful in evaluating institutions based on what they have achieved over the last year. The performance of the college in a diverse range of activities including academics, sports activities, research, placement, innovation, diversity, quality would be used to develop an index which in turn would be used to rank the colleges.
A student facing difficulty in choosing between the two colleges usually researches the thorough breakdown of each parameter and sub-parameters to understand how the colleges stand on the individual aspects most relevant to the student. It’s cumbersome to trawl through hundreds of institutions for their individual scores in each parameter, especially during the heat and hurry of the admission season.
Now with this ranking system in place the process would be easily reflective of all criteria and the students would get benefitted.
