TN leads MHRD’s top-100 colleges list with 37

Chennai’s Loyola College came in the number two spot, while Tiruchirapalli’s Bishop Heber College and Chennai’s Women’s Christian College are No.4 and No. 10 respectively.

April 03, 2017 07:22 pm | Updated November 29, 2021 01:21 pm IST - Chennai

A view of the Loyola College Campus in Chennai. Loyola College is number two on the Ministry of Human Resource Development’s list of top-100 colleges in the country.

A view of the Loyola College Campus in Chennai. Loyola College is number two on the Ministry of Human Resource Development’s list of top-100 colleges in the country.

A whopping 37 colleges in Tamil Nadu have made it to the rankings released by the Ministry of Human Resource Development on Monday, with three TN colleges coming in the top-ten list.

Chennai’s Loyola College came in the number two spot, while Tiruchirapalli’s Bishop Heber College and Chennai’s Women’s Christian College are No.4 and No. 10 respectively.

The other colleges from Chennai district in the top-100 list are Ethiraj College for Women (16), Justice Baseer Ahmed Sayeed College for Women (47), Shri Shankarlal Sundarbai Shasun Jain College for Women (59) and Meenakshi College for Women (59). From the Kancheepuram district, there are The Madras Christian College (12) and SDNB Vaishnav College for Women (62).

 

Coimbatore has 10 colleges in the list, while Tiruchirapalli has four.

Fatima College (Autonomous) at the 27th spot is the lone college from Madurai.

Delhi’s Miranda House has the top spot in the list.

A total of 535 colleges have been ranked in this first-time exercise.

Here’s the full list of TN’s colleges:

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