The ranking was announced on Thursday by the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) of the Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD). The annual ranking is usually announced in April but has to be postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
NEW DELHI: IIT Madras, IISc Bengaluru and IIT Delhi bagged the top three positions among the higher educational institutions in the country in the HRD Ministry's National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) rankings 2020 announced on Thursday.
Seven Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) figured in the top 10 in the overall rankings --
- IIT Madras
- IIT Delhi
- IIT Bombay
- IIT Kharagpur
- IIT Kanpur
- IIT Guwahati
- IIT Roorkee.
According to the fifth edition of the annual rankings, the top three universities are
- IISc Bengaluru,
- Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU)
- Banaras Hindu University (BHU)
IIM Ahmedabad is ranked as the top business school in the country, followed by IIM Bangalore and IIM Calcutta.
Union Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal "Nishank" announced that Miranda College bagged the top rank among colleges, followed by Lady Sri Ram College for Women, Hindu College and St Stephen's College -- all under the Delhi University (DU).
According to the rankings, the top three engineering colleges in the country are IIT Madras, IIT Delhi and IIT Bombay.
In the pharmacy category, the top institute is Jamia Hamdard from Delhi, followed by Punjab University, Chandigarh and National Pharmaceutical Research Institute, Mohali.
In the medical colleges category, AIIMS, Delhi bagged the top spot, followed by PGI, Chandigarh and CMC, Vellore.
The annual rankings are usually announced in April but had to be postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
"These rankings act as a guide to students for selection of universities based on a set criteria and helps universities to improve their performance on various ranking parameters and identify gaps in research and areas of improvement. This exercise has also created a habit of organising data by the institutions and most of all, these institutions attempt to become more competitive," Nishank said.
The Minister of HRD attributed the performance of Indian institutions in international rankings to the weightage given to them for parameters of perception and prestige.
"I do not agree with their criteria, be it the Times Higher Education Ranking or the QS Ranking, some of our trusted institutions have produced alumni that are spread across the globe, we are doing excellent research, we need to decide on those criteria Should be taken," he said.
The ranking framework evaluates institutions on five broad generic groups of parameters -- teaching, learning and resources (TLR), research and professional practice (RP), graduation outcomes (GO), outreach and inclusivity (OI) and perception (PR). The ranks are given on the basis of the sum total of marks assigned for each of these five broad groups of parameters.
Dental colleges in the country were ranked by NIRF for the first time. Maulana Azad Institute of Dental Sciences, Manipal College of Dental Sciences and DY Patil Vidyapeeth were ranked among the top three institutes in this category.
The top three institutions for architecture studies are IIT Kharagpur, IIT Roorkee and National Institute of Technology, Calicut.
The top three law schools are --
- National Law School of India University, Bengaluru
- National Law University, New Delhi and
- Nalsar University of Law, Hyderabad
A total of 3,771 universities and higher educational institutions across the country participated in the ranking process.
The QS World University Rankings were announced on Wednesday, in which two IITs -- Delhi and Bombay -- and the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru maintained their positions in the top 200, despite losing some points.
The QS ranking is the second consecutive international list, where Indian universities have performed worse than in 2019. Last week, the Times Higher Education (THE) Asia University Rankings also showed that Indian institutions have slipped into their stands.
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