Admissions, Universities & Employability

Delhi University has bagged a handmade corner of proficiency for itself, particularly when it comes to its infrastructure and brand value. The name itself reiterates the value that’s very much incorporated in it. It’s certainly not unreasonable if you look at its performance over the decades. Yet Punjab University was granted the glory of being the No. 1 institute in India, by The Times Higher Education, due to its high citation index, pre-PhD programs (a preliminary base course intended to make students ready for pursuing further research work), and rigorous collaboration with other universities in order to branch out support and specific expertise. Hence other universities have the budding capabilities to bolster the place that has kept Delhi University in high esteem. Delhi University’s topmost colleges (A++, A+, A-accredited colleges with more than 3.01 CGPA) have a limited number of seats and only a handful of students can actually get in. A prominent example of this would be the 100% cut-off last seen in 2011. The rest of the students generally make do with B-grade colleges under Delhi University. The question comes in mind: what can the other universities do in order to pull over the tide?

Delhi University has a vast pool of academic courses, which vary not just in terms of quantity (subject preference), but also in terms of quality. They get vibrant exposure to take up part-time job opportunities or extra curriculum activities, which provide a strong stimulus for personal development and futuristic opportunities. On the contrary, if we take up the example of Calcutta University, it has only offered the option of choosing an additional subject outside the stipulated special papers from this year onwards only. In Calcutta University, 60% is a hard nut to crack, which is the threshold percentage for most of the hiring companies. There’s a brutal grading curve imbibed in the process with a dearth of cultivational motivation to look beyond the given. With a perfect blend of theory and its applicability, it is possible for other public universities to come out of its shortcomings.

Even not such great colleges under Delhi University provide a stream of lucrative job opportunities and more importantly, sufficient amount of resources to prepare for CAT, CMAT, XAT, whereas Calcutta University’s course structure is rigidly confined within the walls of textbook-based learning, lacking in space for practicability and research volume, citations, teaching reputation and international students. Statistics undergraduates are still using Stata which has become obsolete in practice. In Bharati College, University of Delhi (B-graded), an expansive counseling fair is being held every year to walk the students through the opportunities they can have after graduating.

There’s a paucity of good quality public universities. The universities’ main agenda upon completion of a course is to strengthen the record of how many students got recruited. However important the empirics are, the students are mostly set loose without required training or personality development programmes to cope with the ensuing pressure that the corporate world has in store. Chances are, even if a student secures a job in this precarious mindset, the rate of survival is lower. Also, the fleeting possibility of getting a job that suits a student’s set of interior skills and passion is more on the adverse side of the wall. Delhi University has an influx of mixed cultures and strong infrastructure to let the students cultivate the air required to be employed by a company that complements her/his persona. If the other public universities move the rigid pathway and bring in more refined logistics which would incorporate more practical inclinations, the chances of employability would increase significantly.