Saw some Outlook ratings recently (the page is dead, but cached here) for Engineering colleges. I’ve traditionally held that these rankings are bullshit. Ranks are often handed out on a highest-bidder basis, all else, including metrics, being decided arbitrarily.
Ignoring relative rankings, I scanned through for a list of colleges I recognised. There were a few of repute there, the Bangalore colleges I knew of, and some I knew of from people studying there. And the bottom line is that all the ones I know, in the words of Cartman, suck ass when it comes to education. And maybe that tells us a lot about the state of private education in India. That’s one I’ve sung before, so ‘nuff said.
What I wonder now is whether the next generation of adults is going to be the most cynical in recent history, or if we’re all going to delude ourselves into believing we actually learnt anything (and I don’t mean “lessons in life”) in college because it’s just easier that way.
And maybe it doesn’t even matter. Here, watch some Taylor Mali and feel good about it all.
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There was a survey published by India-Today, where BITS, Pilani, wasn’t even in the top 20 engineering colleges of country. So much bullshit – wrt survey and rankings crap :-). I’m still amazed that how some parents take these rankings seriously. Typical Indian mentality, I’m told when I seek explanations with few enlightened souls.
Btw, how goes life around Kanpur ?
It might be the typical mentality, but what else is there?
Kanpur is good. Work is fun, play is fun. :)
It might be the typical mentality, but what else is there? Yeah, may be the mentality prevalent in lands outside India, also. Other thing to be noted is rampant demand for Engineering Education in the country. Other fields like Economics, Mathematics, Physics and Literature lose out. However things are changing slowly, I guess.