Do you know about the top IISER in the country?

Long before the country understood the importance of education, some of the great minds taken a step forward in voluntarily taking education and opted for subjects like law. But with time, trends in education changed too, now students opt for courses which are more of research oriented and guarantee an economic future. Engineering appears to be the most convenient option, but when all the other institutes around the world focusing more on research oriented education, how the country going to stand with the conventional engineering was a big question. The concerned resulted in establishment of Indian Institute of science Education and Research (IISER).

About IISER:

The concept of establishment of IISER was born with the intentions of breaking the barriers of not having quality research facilities available for the undergraduate students. The scientific leaders and academician of the country came together to address a very important issue that in a country of more than a billion people and oodles of institutes, there is not a single institute which focus more on the research oriented science education for undergraduate students. Ministry of Human Resource and Development was approached with the concept a decade ago in the year 2005 and the concept being such approach got instant approval. The process of establishment started in no time and steps like campus allocation, financial planning, Infrastructure, designing the curriculum was done on priority. Admission procedure completed within a month so that academic session of the planned IISER Pune and IISER Kolkata can be started. In August 2006 both the IISER started with 44 and 38 Students in Pune and Kolkata respectively. All the other IISER of the countries as part of the expansion started later in couple of years.

IISER Campuses in India:

The concept and curriculum of IISER became so popular that the government decided to expand the innovative concept of education in the country and within 10 years 5 more IISER established.

• IISER Pune

• IISER Kolkata

• IISER Mohali

• IISER Bhopal

• IISER Thiruvananthapuram

• IISER Tirupati

• IISER Berhampur

Top IISER of India:

It’s not been long time since Indian Institute of science Education and Research started and some of campuses managed to be in the list of top colleges in India. National Institutional Ranking Framework since its establishment by MHRD is evaluating colleges in various parameters to allot them ranking in different categories.  Talking about IISER in particular, five out of seven IISER is in top 100 colleges of India in overall category as claimed in the NIRF list released in the year 2018.

Now the question is, which IISER is the top one in the list? The privilege to be to top IISER of the country for the current year is for IISER Kolkata which is also the 25th college in top ranking. Surprisingly IISER left behind BITS Pilani in the list. The other IISER which made in the list and is second in the list is IISER Pune leaving behind IIM Calcutta in the list.

Top 5 IISER of the Country:

From the above data released by the concerned authority, one can totally understand the impact the IISER (A premier group of institution) is making in the field of education at present.

What makes IISER Kolkata the best?

IISER Kolkata the first ever established institute in the group of institution with just one classroom and few labs has shown a progressive growth in last decade resulting it making the top IISER of the nation. The factors which contributed in its achievements are:

• Faculty: The Institute have a total of 105 faculty members and all of them are PhD degree holder in their respective fields of teaching.

• Scholarship: From the total 843 students enrolled in its 5 years undergraduate programme in different stream a total of 728 students are receiving scholarship of either government or institutional fund.

• Package: The average salary offered to an undergraduate student in the last academic season was Rs. 12, 00, 000 which is quite a high package being offered in any other institute at the same level.

All the established and planned IISER irrespective of the fact that one is top while others are not are working together to a progressive educational system in India. The aim is to provide global standard of academics to the youth and prepare them for a bright future. The institutes aims to have all the IISER at the same level in coming couple of years.