These are similar universities. Both private. Both expensive. Both in Sonepat. Both having very good infrastructure. Both having strong foreign collaborations. Both attracting wealthy students. Both having faculty who have studied in reputed universities, in India and abroad.
Yet, the respect that Jindal gets doesn't match up to the respect Ashoka gets. Why is it so? Is it because the chancellor of Jindal is Naveen Jindal and not an academic? Is it because Jindal is not as left-wing as Ashoka is? Or is it just that NLU students and alumni like to troll Jindal?
It’s because they have academic integrity at Ashoka. Professors aren’t harassed into giving everyone good grades and students aren’t interested in all that anyway. The admin doesn’t lie as much, themselves or to others.
Because, if you look at Ashoka faculty, they have credentials far surpassing that of Jindal faculty. If you go to any job vacancy at Ashoka's website, it most certainly requires a PhD which Jindal does not. Ashoka's faculty usually have foreign PhDs and postdocs from good institutions which are unspoken requirements. Sometimes the job vacancy even says that they want people with postdoc experience from top labs or institutions. This means that if you go the Google Scholar page of their academics, Ashoka academics far outshine their counterparts at Jindal.
Jindal takes random people with foreign LL.M.s and no teaching experience as faculty, lol. Spoiler alert: it is 50x difficult to get a foreign PhD than a foreign LL.M.
Jindal is a large multidisciplinary University with 12 schools/departments with 10,000 students resident on campus being taught by 1100 faculty members.
Ashoka is not even one-fifth the size of Jindal either in terms of students or faculty size or even campus. It's like a small liberal arts college with a private University status.
Jindal is an Institution of Eminence or IOE notified by Ministry of Education, Govt of India. Ashoka is just a state private University and we don't see it becoming an IOE in near future.
Jindal in its present status can be compared or treated as a private counterpart of a JNU or TISS. Ashoka is like an NLU.
In Law, Jindal is ranked among top 100 law schools of the world for 3 years in a row. No department of Ashoka has ever been internationally ranked.
its tbh a branding and image issue. Jindal's PR machinery focuses on utilitarian aspects and metrics of a university, like QS, SCOPUS, etc while Ashoka has a more holistic, understated approach to its branding
Yet, the respect that Jindal gets doesn't match up to the respect Ashoka gets. Why is it so? Is it because the chancellor of Jindal is Naveen Jindal and not an academic? Is it because Jindal is not as left-wing as Ashoka is? Or is it just that NLU students and alumni like to troll Jindal?
(Mod, please mark this as trollish)
Jindal takes random people with foreign LL.M.s and no teaching experience as faculty, lol. Spoiler alert: it is 50x difficult to get a foreign PhD than a foreign LL.M.
Jindal is a large multidisciplinary University with 12 schools/departments with 10,000 students resident on campus being taught by 1100 faculty members.
Ashoka is not even one-fifth the size of Jindal either in terms of students or faculty size or even campus. It's like a small liberal arts college with a private University status.
Jindal is an Institution of Eminence or IOE notified by Ministry of Education, Govt of India. Ashoka is just a state private University and we don't see it becoming an IOE in near future.
Jindal in its present status can be compared or treated as a private counterpart of a JNU or TISS. Ashoka is like an NLU.
In Law, Jindal is ranked among top 100 law schools of the world for 3 years in a row. No department of Ashoka has ever been internationally ranked.
Let's not get into unfair comparisons.