Careers360 World-class universities: What can India learn? | Page 10

Global warp versity University No. of Faculty University of British Columbia 10,186 No. of University Students (UG+PG) University of Toronto 80,899 University of Michigan - Ann Arbor 6,454 The University of Texas at Austin 52,076 5,695 University of Washington 49,577 University College London Dean, Darden B-School 57,706 The University of Manchester Prof Robert Brunner, University of British Columbia The University of Edinburgh Mark Twain said, “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” So is studying abroad. This wide-angle vision can translate into comparative advantage when pursuing a job, building a career, and extending a social network. The savoir faire that you acquire will give you confidence and competence in dealing with global diversity 7,500 5,277 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 44,294 New York University 4,373 University of Michigan Ann Arbor 43,426 University of Washington 4,300 University of California, Los Angeles 41,812 Yale University 4,140 New York University 38,391 University of California-los angeles 4,000 University of Wisconsin Madison 38,301 The university of tokyo 3,919 The University of Manchester 36,342 Indian Number of faculty learning at institutions where they get ample opportunity to challenge their own academic capability, interact more with faculty, emphasize on high-order cognitive activities in the classroom and value enriching educational experiences. They use active and collaborative learning techniques. A larger student body means broader vision for the university and a larger possibility to bring in substantive change in the system. Student-Faculty Ratio The number of teaching and research personnel in the leading universities are high, but they are in concurrence with University (India) No. of Faculty Manipal University, Manipal 2,400 Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham University, Coimbatore 2,000 Annamalai University, Annamalainagar 1,867 Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Varanasi 1,744 Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi 1,418 Bharati Vidyapeeth, Pune 1,349 Amity University Noida 1,132 Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), Aligarh 1,106 Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana 816 University of Delhi 775 39 Careers 360 January 2014