Editorial Policy

No one can pay for coverage on Expertie. No college, university, coaching institute, or exam body can buy a ranking or a place in our coverage, and none can influence what we publish through advertising, sponsorship, or any commercial relationship. That is a fixed rule, not a case-by-case call.

Rankings come only from the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF), published each year by the Ministry of Education, Government of India. We reproduce what NIRF publishes; we do not compile our own rankings and we do not adjust the order.

If we ever run sponsored content, it will be labelled "Sponsored" or "Advertisement" and kept visually distinct from editorial content. We carry none today.

Every factual claim on Expertie should trace to a primary source. We work down this order:

1. Official government portals: NIRF, AISHE, UGC, AICTE, and the Ministry of Education 2. The accreditation bodies whose badges we publish: NAAC, NBA, AICTE, and AIU 3. Official exam conducting bodies: the NTA, the IIMs, XLRI, the CLAT Consortium, and the other bodies that run the exams we cover 4. myScheme, the Government of India portal we draw scholarship schemes from 5. Official university and college websites and their annual reports

Wikipedia, news reports, student forums, and social media are never a source on their own. We use them only to find a lead, which we then confirm against a primary source.

College choices, exam eligibility, scholarship eligibility, and career guidance are "Your Money or Your Life" (YMYL) topics. A student can be materially harmed by a decision made on wrong information, so this content is held to a stricter standard.

Before we publish YMYL content, it goes through a two-step internal check by our editorial desk: one pass to write and structure it, then a second, separate pass to check every data point against its primary source. We also state the vintage of any dated figure plainly, for example "NIRF 2025" or "AISHE 2021–22", so you can see how current it is.

No YMYL page is published by an automated process on its own.

Today these pages carry the "Expertie Editorial Team" byline. We are onboarding named subject experts and independent fact-checkers, and each page will carry a named reviewer as they come on board.

We correct mistakes as soon as we can. When we find, or are told about, a factual error:

• Minor fixes (typos, formatting) are made quietly, and the page-level "Last updated" date moves forward • Factual corrections carry a visible note at the top of the page saying what changed and why • Significant corrections carry that note, and the editorial desk reviews how the error got through

To report an error, email editorial@expertie.com with the page URL and what is wrong. We aim to acknowledge within 48 hours.

Different data ages at different rates, so we review it on different cycles:

• NIRF rankings: refreshed once a year, when the Ministry of Education publishes the new edition (usually mid-year) • Exam attributes: we hold the stable details of each exam and update them as official notifications are released • Scholarship schemes: reviewed periodically against the myScheme portal • Accreditation status (NAAC, NBA, AICTE, AIU): updated as the accrediting bodies revise their records

Pages that carry dated data show its vintage plainly, for example "NIRF 2025", "AISHE 2021–22", or an "Updated [date]" note, so you can see how current it is at a glance.

We use AI tools to help with research, drafting, and formatting. The limits are firm:

• A human editor reviews and edits anything AI helped produce before it is published • Every factual claim is checked by a person against its primary source • AI is never the sole author of a published page • Data drawn from our automated pipelines is validated against the primary source it came from

We do not use AI to fabricate data, invent reviews, or generate synthetic college profiles.