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    Graduates from BITS Pilani, VIT want to decongest fuel stations
    (Financial Express, 2022-09-05) Chaudhary, Vikram
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    How BITS Pilani hit a new NIRF high:
    (Financial Express, 2025-09-29) Chaudhary, Vikram
    In the recently-released NIRF rankings, BITS Pilani was one of the strongest performers – compared to 2024, its Overall NIRF rank in 2025 jumped from 23 to 16, it entered into top-10 universities for the first time (rank 7), it was the second-best in pharmacy, and its rank among engineering colleges jumped from 20 to 11 (and it was India’s best private engineering college). Prof V Ramgopal Rao, group vice-chancellor of BITS Pilani, told FE that these results are a testament to the institute’s sustained focus on academic and research excellence. “Our performance marks our best-ever showing across all key categories,” he said. “This includes a historic entry into the top-10 universities, and in pharmacy we are the second-best in the country. In the NIRF Research category, we moved up eight places from 26th to 18th.”
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    Why BITS Pilani withdrew from the Rankings
    (Financial Express, 2026-02-23) Chaudhary, Vikram
    In a move that signals a growing rift between India’s elite technical institutions and global ranking bodies, BITS Pilani has withdrawn from the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings for 2026. Speaking on the decision, Prof V Ramgopal Rao, group vice-chancellor of BITS Pilani, characterised the ranking methodology as a “black box” that had failed to align with the verifiable academic and research capacity of Indian institutions. The decision marks a big milestone in a journey that began in 2020, when Prof Rao led a high-profile boycott of THE Rankings alongside several IITs. While those initial concerns centred on the opacity of reputation surveys, Prof Rao said that the problem had become structural, affecting the very core of how research excellence is measured.
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    Why world-ranked private varsities are failing the salary test
    (Financial Express, 2026-02-16) Chaudhary, Vikram