DDU Gorakhpur University finds place in QS-Ranking
Gorakhpur: DDU Gorakhpur University is among the top 100 Indian universities in the recently announced QS World University ranking (Quacquarelli Symonds) for academic session 2020-21.
The vice chancellor Prof. Rajesh Singh claimed that the DDU Gorakhpur University is placed 96th in the ranking in the country. “DDU Gorakhpur University is the only university among UP State government universities, hence it stands first in Uttar Pradesh”, he said.
However, some of Central Universities and National Institutes from UP has figured in the ranking like IIT kanpur getting 6th position, Banaras Hindu University getting 19th position and Aligarh Muslim University getting 34st position.
The VC congratulated the faculty member for this big achievement. “I am happy that DDU Gorakhpur University is the only university among government universities of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar which figured in top 100 in the ranking,” he said, adding that usually this type of ranking is dominated by IITs, Central Universities and National Institutions due to huge investment done by central government. Normally there is no special investment in research and academics in state universities.
He said that DDU Gorakhpur University meets almost 85 present of its budget by its own resources and 15% budget which the university get from state government are utilised in partial payment of salaries of teachers and staff. ” Our university is spread in around 200 acres and we are meeting the needs of 17,000 students in the campus with the help of 500 teachers and 600 non- teaching staff. So, contribution per unit in research, academics and courses are very high. DDU Gorakhpur University has been very rich in its social science and science faculty. Specially science faculty has good scientific contribution. The QS has obtained data from UK based Thomson Reuters the most prestigious agency which calculate impact factor of papers in science. Per person quality publication comes out to be 11.5 which is quite high considering the facilities in state universities to meet the demand of scientific research.
Prof Singh said that the state government should come forward to promote universities like DDU Gorakhpur University to establish it as center of excellence in research output. QS has graded DDU Gorakhpur university with high grade research output, he added.
