For some exceptional individuals, going to university is a waste of time. Steve Jobs, a brilliant innovator and CEO par excellence, who put Apple on course to become the world's first trillion-dollar company before his untimely death in October 2011, spent just six months reading for an undergraduate degree. Bill Gates, the world's second richest man, and founder of Microsoft, spent only a little longer at Harvard. Closer home, the legendary Dhirubhai Ambani did not even get a chance to enrol in a university. He became India's richest man nonetheless. Gautam Adani followed Ambani's spirit, becoming a dollar billionaire after dropping out of college. There are plenty of other instances of hugely successful innovators and entrepreneurs who skipped university.
Unfortunately, a majority of individuals are not exceptional, not endowed with genius, and devoid of entrepreneurial abilities. For the majority, a good university education is the only passport to success. But what, you might ask, is the value of postgraduate degrees (MA, MSc, MCom, MPhil, PhD) that do not provide a professional qualification- oriented to jobs-say, like an MBA does? The answer is, quite a lot, which is why INDIA TODAY decided to commission a special Universities Survey and Rankings in 2010 to measure the quality of India's universities in postgraduate degree in the Arts, Science and Commerce.
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