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Adamas University breaks in to QS I gauge ratings 2021

Adamas University is awarded by QS I gauge 2021 gold rating overall and diamond in Academic Development

27^th July Kolkata; 2021: Adamas University, located in Kolkata, one of the best rated private university of Eastern India, has just been rated high in global higher education ratings, by QS ratings, in its report of July 2021. The university has become the prestigious winner of QS I gauge highest category of rating, Platinum in Teaching & Learning and Diamond in Academic Development category. It has become the first ever University in India to beg this rating in academic development & platinum in Teaching and Learning in eastern India. Overall, it has bagged gold rating. For a just five-year-old University, this achievement is unprecedented and welcomed by all students and faculty members of Adamas University. 

Institutional rating and ranking by QS IGAUGE rating system is an extensive representation of the results following a detailed academic audit with the objective to evaluate the performance of the institution over a wide range of criteria pertaining to the system and structure of higher education in India and deduce areas of excellence. It is backed by the global expertise, experience, and reputation of UK-based (QS) ‘Quacquarelli Symonds,’ the industry leaders in ‘world university rankings’ since 1990.

Founding Chancellor, Adamas University, Prof. Samit Ray congratulating Adamas Community said, “For a five-year-old University, this recognition comes in a time where all Institutions globally are going through a turbulent time. This achievement reaffirmed our believe and journey of Institutional Building. It will enable us to reimagine education in a post pandemic new global order”. “Even a national media like Outlook had earlier in 2020 had ranked us among the top 50 private universities in India, and Adamas’s goal is to be among the top 50 universities overall in India in less than a decade next”, Mr. Ray further added.

The Vice Chancellor, Dr Deependra Kumar Jha, said, “With a clear focus on AU 2.0, going beyond the first five years of the university, we are now striving to upgrade quality of teaching, learning, research, academic development and that is being reflected well in the current rating by a global major like QS. It is a reassertion of Adamas’s Pedagogy and interdisciplinary learning initiative on which Adamas firmly believes in”.

Scoring 226 out of 250 in Teaching-Learning, Adamas has a platinum ranking, with 100% score in faculty-student ratio, student satisfaction, contact hours per week, interactive teaching, learning management system and support in further studies. It is pertinent to note that Adamas uses CANVAS LMS which is the choice of most ivy league universities of the world. This is the highest rating for any university in east and northeast India in teaching and learning.

It is interesting to note that the university has also received diamond rating for Academic Development and Employability. QS has noted that AU has an active learning and development centre, and is also a member of several academic networks at international, national and regional levels; and that the institute follows some of the best academic practices and supports academic freedom for students and faculty.

The third major area of admirable performance has been employability, with Diamond rating, and having full score in areas like career counselling services, alumni satisfaction with the institute and career success, and extra-curricular activities.

It can be noted here that QS had in June 2020 ranked Adamas very high on e-preparedness when all universities in India had gone online in their functioning and delivery of education.

The University has also received Diamond rating on social outreach, Gold rating on aspects like facilities on campus, research, diversity & accessibility. Overall rating of the university has been of Gold, which is admirable for a university born half a decade ago.

 

Adamas University, Kolkata was awarded the Best University in India for creating “Social Impact in Education” at the Education Leadership Award 2021 conferred by FWA Industry Council and Education Post on March 26, 2021, at IIC, New Delhi in the presence of Hon’ble Suresh Prabhu Ji, the Chief Guest of the event.

Chancellor Prof.(Dr.) Samit Ray of Adamas University recently received recognitions and appreciations by many leading reputed education organisations for his exceptional and timely contribution towards Covid-19. Educational institutes like Petra Christian University, University of Genoa, Ministry of Education and Science of UKRAINE state higher educational institutions, Daffodil International University, Rzeszow University of Technology certified Chancellor Prof.(Dr.) Samit Ray for his dedication towards humanity in such a crucial time.

Adamas University being a six year old entity, has responded to this global pandemic with élan. The report highlights how the university has quickly and radically altered its teaching, learning, evaluating activities during this crisis. It also captures how the university prioritized the safety of the students and decided to close the campus as early as 15th March 2020 onwards. It had immediately adopted a series of humanitarian measures which included contribution of Rs. 10 lakhs to the CM Relief Fund. Additionally the university offered its campus to be used as a quarantine center with a maximum of 1000 beds for isolated persons, along with quarters for doctors and health professionals despite being a non-medical university. The university took full care of the food and logistics of the persons who were staying there as Covid suspects and the authority ensured regular sanitization of the area and the isolation wards.

These efforts were highly acknowledged by the universities across the country and on receiving such valuable recognitions and appreciations, Chancellor, Prof.(Dr.) Samit Ray said, “I am extremely obliged to all the institutions who have acknowledged our efforts and bestowed us with such valuable recognitions. But I believe this is something which was not possible without my able team. Our professors and whole team have not left any stone unturned to expand learning even during lockdown. With prevailing situations we will continue to function as per the state and central govt directives and UGC protocols. This recognitions will motivate us to keep on pursuing the best for everyone”.

Adamas University rated by several organizations as the best university in the private sector in Eastern India has signed a project based Memorandum of Understanding, with Elmax Systems & Solutions ( ISO 9001:2015 Certified company and enlisted with MSME. Govt. of India) to develop a cloud based automated diagnostic tool to detect coronavirus disease using radiographs. This is the first ever attempt by any Indian University towards a cloud based AI enabled faster & low-cost solution to the problem based on Multiple Hypothesis Inference Criterion. (Google search engine and pre-prints) . The novelty is in a single point multi-hypothesis based faster detection of COVID-19 from Radiography images & other medical vital conditions with severity score tag for early detection of nCOVID-19 patients and necessary measures.   

The Automated Detection Tool developed by Adamas University and ESS aims to offer a valuable second opinion to the doctors and assist them in the screening process. This type of mechanism will provide results to the doctors quickly and in an efficient and accurate manner. Mr. Debashis Chakrabarti, CEO of ESS and alumni of IIT-Kharagpur said that, “In this software, we have developed an Artificial Intelligence based Technique for detecting COVID-19 on Chest Radiographs(X-Ray or CT Scans) ,other medical vitals like temperature , saturation percentage of Oxygen and even pathological data from Blood Routine Examination like Leukocyte, Lymphocyte & Neutrophil.” The technique would also act as an aid to the conventional RT-PCR based method to isolate the contracted individuals.

The project will see utilization of the techniques of data science and machine learning on radiograph images along with other parameters to successfully detect the COVID-19. The Principle-Investigator of the project Dr. Moumita Mukherjee, Associate Professor  & Dean (R&D) – Adamas University added that, “This software product is built around the same concept with some important additions that can conclude the presence of the stain. Our software can even predict the Stage of the COVID-19 Infection in terms of Opacity & Lung Consolidation. We have achieved 85% of accuracy level – we are trying hard to enhance that to something beyond 90%, so that the value could be enhanced from the market point of view”. Dr. Mukherjee will also be assisted by Mr. Debajit Sen, Head of Technical Projects, department of ESS and Mr. Swarnava Biswas, Ph.D. Research Scholar of Adamas University along with a group of Sr. Professors with medical background. The first phase of clinical validation of this software is already done with a large number of radiograph data from normal and affected patients where the team has received more than 80% accuracy level and work is going on for further optimization. We are trying to collaborate with Government sectors/health-sectors to get more data from COVID hospitals for the large-scale clinical trial of the software. In their words this software eliminates the false negatives and identifies the asymptomatic cases and other cases like Pneumonia, SARS (Severe acute respiratory syndrome) etc. by making use of Multiple Hypothesis Inference Criterion. The Entire Test Procedural Time is ranged from 15 minutes to 1 hour depending on the modules chosen for the tests. Hence it may be viewed as a faster, lower cost complimentary detection tool for COVID – 19, which can even work on an OPD environment.

On this development Prof. Samit Ray, Chancellor, Adamas University said, “The journey of Covid-19 has gone through a lot of major developments for Adamas University. We have always tried to evolve and achieve which keeps us at par with other renowned universities during these challenging situations. I am extremely honored with this association. We have always tried to extend our support to the government in all forms and will continue the same in the long run. This situation is becoming more challenging. I would request perseverance from everyone so that we overcome this soon”.

Kolkata, 25^th May 2020: The Chancellor of Adamas University, Prof.(Dr.) Samit Ray, has announced COVID-Amphan scholarships worth Rs.2 crores benefiting 500 or more seekers of higher education in 2020 in Eastern and North-eastern India. The scholarships are being given keeping in mind the immense economic loss to many families in this region due to job and income losses due to COVID19 induced lockdown and property losses due to Amphan cyclone recently that ravaged Bengal and parts of Odisha. 

 

The University has planned to allocate the scholarships among all the 117 under graduate and post graduate programs of the nine Schools of studies, covering all categories of applicants. The scholarships will be decided based on the performance of the applicants in online admission tests scheduled to be conducted on May 30, June 13 and June 20. An individual applicant can try maximum two times to win a scholarship (if fails to do in the first attempt). It is based on performance in the online admission test. 

The University has 117 UG and PG programs in schools focusing on management, engineering, media, liberal arts, sciences, pharmacy, biotech, law and justice, and education. Around 2000 students take admission every year, and a substantial part of this community in 2020 shall be able to take the benefit of the scholarships. 

“This is the least we could do to support the young learners this time, and I hope every corporate house and university or college shall come out with their own support measures this time,” noted Chancellor Prof.(Dr.) Samit Ray. The University had already offered its campus for quarantine ward apart from cash support during COVID crisis, both of which were accepted by the state government. The faculty members have also contributed cash and are now engaged in online teaching, evaluation, and researching and writing on various aspects of COVID crisis according to their domain expertise. 

This is the first such scholarship announced by any university in east and north-eastern India since the lockdown has been announced.