Among universities, IISc-Bangalore ranks first, followed by Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU). In the research category launched this year, IISc-Bangalore topped and IIT-Madras stood second. This is the sixth edition of the India Rankings established by the Ministry of Education, the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF), which now ranks institutions of higher education in 11 categories. The number of unique applicants for ranking has increased from 2,426 in 2016 to 4,030 in 2021, while the total number of applications for ranking in various categories has increased from 3,565 in 2016 to 6,272 in 2021.
Stating that IISc is the benchmark in research on which IIT-Madras will work, Professor Bhaskar Ramamurthy, Director, IIT-Madras said, “We are again pleased to maintain our pre-eminent position in the NIRF rankings, indicating Makes that we are continuously improving in all parameters. In fact, all institutions are improving, which is a good thing. IIT-Madras continues to excel in teaching, research and innovation, and has launched several new initiatives to implement the National Policy on Education (NEP).
While not much has changed in terms of ranking of top institutions in the overall, engineering, law, medicine and management category, the college category has seen maximum changes with Loyola College (3), St. Xavier’s Kolkata and Ramakrishna Mission Vidyamandir, Howrah . (5) Entering the top five for the first time. However, Delhi University, which has not ranked itself in the overall and university top 10, has five colleges in the top 10 and 12 in the top 20 categories. Delhi has 28 colleges in the top 100, followed by Chennai and Coimbatore with eight colleges each.
region wise, Tamil Nadu There are 19 institutions in the top 100 universities, followed by Maharashtra with 12 and Karnataka with 10. Even in the overall category, the numbers are similar for Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra. However, Delhi with the third largest number of institutions in this category is in the top 100 overall with Karnataka seven.
Institutions are ranked on five parameters – teaching, learning and resources; research and professional practice; graduation results; outreach and inclusivity; and perception.
Releasing the rankings, Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said that a strong and role model ranking framework will serve as India’s contribution to the global learning landscape, “Therefore, we must ensure that our ranking framework is not only in the country Urging for the development of a regional ranking framework, “emerge as a benchmark, but also globally, especially for developing economies.” “We have 50,000 educational institutions and 50 million higher education students. Ranking is inevitable. More should be done. This year 6,000 institutions participated. In future, almost all institutions should come forward,” Pradhan said.
Among other categories, IIM Ahmedabad tops management, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi tops medicine for fourth year in a row, Jamia Hamdard tops list in pharmacy for third year in a row, IIT-Roorkee takes up architecture subject Displacing the top spot IIT-Kharagpur for the first time, National Law School of India University, Bangalore retained its first position for law for the fourth consecutive year and Manipal College of Dental Sciences, Manipal secured the first position in the dental category. .
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