Bhubaneswar IIT is more 'trusted' than its clones at Kanpur, Mumbai: Study

BHUBANESWAR: The Indian Institute of Technology at Bhubaneswar (IITBBS) is a "more trusted" brand compared even to the first-generation IITs at Kanpur and Mumbai, a latest survey says. Educationists, however, have expressed serious doubts about credentials of the survey.
Trust Research Advisory (TRA), a Mumbai-based brand intelligence company, has placed IIT-Bhubaneswar at 17th rank ahead of IIT Kanpur (36th) and IIT Mumbai (57th) based on the trust factor."We have our own matrix to measures trust. The rating was done after considering 61 attributes of the institutions surveyed among a sample size of 8,000 people across 40 cities over a period of four months earlier this year," said TRA research head Sachin Bhosle.
The TRA list of "top 1000 most trusted educational institutes" places Hindu College, Delhi, on the top spot followed by IIT Delhi.
"It is always gratifying to know that our institute ranks higher among peers. Rating by the agency is based upon its own independent criteria and assessment, which we are not privy to," said IITBBS registrar B K Ray.
TRA rates Utkal University as the 68th most trusted educational institution, just above IIM Ahemadabad at 69th position. Among others, Biju Patnaik University of Technology, Rourkela has been positioned at 91st rank far above NIT Rourkela at 146th place.
Educationist Trilochan Pradhan, who had headed the state government appointed taskforce for higher education in 2010 said the survey looks rubbish. "It is just not possible that the still upcoming IITBBS can be more trusted than IITs at Kanpur and Mumbai. The findings look absurd. The survey method may be either wrong or motivated. It's a joke," he said.
There are 20 institutions from Odisha in the 1000-list, including 14 from Bhubaneswar and three each from Cuttack and Rourkela. They include Silicon Institute of Technology (125), Trident Group of Institutions (137), Xavier Institute of Management (144), Indira Gandhi National Open University Bhubaneswar centre 308, BJB Autonomous College (351), Rajdhani College (482), DAV College (503), Regional College of Management College (604), Amity Global Business School (726), Orissa Engineering College (742), Krupajal Engineering College (750) and ICFAI Business School (879). From Cuttack, Ravenshaw University (205), DRIEMS (492) and JKBK Government College (584) also find places in the list besides IIPM Rourkela (972).