Vol. 2, Issue 11, Part A (2016)

Abstract
‘Being a world class university’ is the motto of the majority of the Universities. Ranking have become a popular way to compare higher education institutions performance and productivity. Getting good ranking in the world ranking and maintenance of the same is not an easier task. But the most critical problem is that the presence of unlimited ranking agencies. Both institutions, as well as the stakeholders were in contrast, which ranking should follow to have most realistic information? The ranking is not everything still, it transform some aspects of quality assessment to the whole world. This article critically evaluates the top universities ranking agencies criteria. The top ranked university of India can get the rank in between 200 to 250 in the world list. This article also focuses on the India’s preparation for the world ranking and an attempt has been made to look into the solutions considering the management techniques.