Finally, the results are out. Each individual jury member logged onto Bestcollegeart.com and went over 1800 works from 487 artists to shortlist the final 5 artists, which impressed them the most. In a completely transparent methodology, each jury member decided upon a list of five artists after critically reviewing them at the jury meeting. The jury met in the last week of February to discuss each of their 5 artists and the works were viewed by all jury members together.

Each of the artists who had secured a minimum of 3 jury members voting for them was then discussed in detail and the finalists were selected after due delibrations extending over 3 hours.