Universities which have demonstrated excellence in areas such as faculty, curriculum, internationalization, research, industry engagement, social responsibility, education technology and others, and have demonstrated spectacular outcomes from their initiatives especially in the past academic year.

Excellence in Faculty

Institutions which have established a sustainable ecosystem for faculty, set out a long-term roadmap to identify, nurture and grow faculty talent and demonstrating tangible outcomes leveraging communities and technologies for improving teaching effectiveness at the institute.

Excellence in Employability through industry engagement

Institutions which have established a sustainable ecosystem for employability by collaborating with industry and demonstrating tangible outcomes by leveraging communities and technologies to improve curriculum/ pedagogy, industry engagements and employability.

Excellence in Internationalization of Education

Institutions which have established a sustainable ecosystem for integrating an international, intercultural or global dimension to identify global partnerships, joint initiatives and demonstrating tangible outcomes leveraging communities and technologies for recruitment, student-staff exchange programs and internationalization of the curriculum.

Excellence in Enabling Research Environment

Institutions which have established a sustainable ecosystem for research to strengthen collaborations among institutions, organizations and communities to leverage talent across institutions for research.

Excellence in Institutional Social Responsibility

Institutions which have established a sustainable ecosystem for community engagement and social responsibility to encourage awareness on social initiatives by demonstrating tangible outcomes leveraging communities and technologies to benefit societies.

Excellence in Creative and Performing Arts

Institutions which have established a sustainable ecosystem for arts entrepreneurship education, develop an ability in faculty to deliver quality programs and offer training providing students with versatility by enabling students to access a range of career options in creative and performing arts.

Lifetime Achievement Award

Recognizing leaders who have changed the course of the Indian education sector with their vision, work and evangelism. Individual should have at least 30 years of experience in the sector.

Personality of the year Award

Recognizing individuals who have demonstrated thought leadership, delivered projects that have resulted in tangible outcomes and contributed to national level initiatives and worked in the higher education sector for 15 years.