In the conventional sense of Medical Education and underlying governance & excellence standards, the older the institution the better and stabilised are the systems and processes.

Weightage 10%
Score Base Year (2016) – Establishment Year
Normalization Criteria Score above 100 will have maximum score, i.e. 10

Websites are the preliminary entry ports to an Institutional digital identity. The quality and performance of an institutional website has found a high degree of correlation with some of the conventional evaluation of progressiveness. To cite an example, the recently released India Rankings for Engineering Institutions across the country based on National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) found a whopping Correlation to the tune of 75% with MOZ Score – a web analytics score – implying that both datasets matched 75% of the times. We have thereby deployed MOZ Score on the institutional websites of the Medical Colleges that predicts how well a website will rank on search engines.

MOZ Score is based on Domain Authority Score (a 100-point scale) developed by Moz.

To determine Domain Authority, Moz employs machine learning against Google’s algorithm to best model how search engine results are generated. Over 40 signals are included in this calculation.

Weightage 25%
Score As delivered by MOZ API at www.moz.com
Normalization Criteria Since it’s a linear score on a 100-point scale, no need of normalisation Normalization Criteria Score above 100 will have maximum score, i.e. 10

In a regime whereby medical seats are strictly regulated and are enhanced based on a conventional set of heuristics interspersing performance, capacity and quality, the number of medical seats at the undergraduate level can be taken up as a metric of progressiveness.

Weightage 20%
Score (Number of Approved Medical Seats/50)
Normalization Criteria Considering Minimum Seats of 50 as base factor

The real advancement of a Medical Institution is its capability to offer the diverse range of Postgraduate Programmes in different streams of Medicine. The more complex the branches, the more progressive the Medical Institution. As a starter, we have simply considered the number of Postgraduate Programmes as a mark of Institutional Progressiveness.

Weightage 25%
Score (Number of Approved Postgraduate Programmes)
Normalization Criteria As the number of programmes follow a linear pattern, there is no need of normalization of values as base factor

Faculty constitutes the knowledge community at a Medical Institution. It has a direct correlation with the quality and progressiveness of the Institution concerned. Though it was difficult to find out this metric from all regulatory and institutional documents, a significant set of institutions do declare the same as a differentiating element of their educational ecosystem.

Weightage 10%
Score (Number of Declared Faculty Members/Minimum Value of Faculty Members in a Medical Institution)
Normalization Criteria Minimum Value of Faculty Members in a Medical Institution has been assumed as 50

Nothing adds-on to the digital identity and social engagement of an organisation than the simple parameter of Facebook Likes. The avenues of multilateral communication which it opens up is certainly a metric of progressiveness of a particular institution. In the context of an academic institution, it’s an invocation of transparency and openness with the risk of being questioned by the members of the general public.

Weightage 10%
Score (Actual Facebook Likes on the Official Page)/(Avg Fb Likes)
Normalization Criteria Average Facebook Likes varies with states