IIT Madras bagged the top NIRF rank for the seventh consecutive year in the overall category, with five other IITs featuring in this year’s top 10 ranks.
The IITs, along with AIIMS Delhi, JNU, and IISc Bangalore, have traditionally dominated the top 10 ranks in the Ministry of Education’s National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF).
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Among Universities, IISc Bangalore retained its top spot for the tenth year in a row. Since the first edition of these rankings in 2016, IISc Bangalore has bagged the top rank in this category each year. JNU ranked second, retaining its rank from last year. Delhi University ranked fifth this year, climbing up from sixth last year.
BITS Pilani entered the top 10 in the universities category this year, up from 19 last year.
Among colleges, Hindu College and Miranda House continue to retain the top two ranks. Hansraj College and Kirori Mal College stand third and fourth respectively. Hansraj College has climbed up from the 12th position last year, while Kirori Mal College ranked ninth last year. They performed better than St. Stephen’s College this year, which was ranked fifth, down from third last year.
Hindu College had trumped Miranda House to bag the top rank in this category last year – Miranda House had retained the first position for seven years before that.
Institutions are evaluated on groups of parameters including Teaching, Learning and Resources; Research and Professional Practice; Graduation Outcome; Outreach and Inclusivity; Perception.
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This is the tenth edition of the rankings, ranking around 7692 institutions, up from 2426 institutions in the first edition.
Institutions are ranked in a total of 17 categories this year, up from 16 last year. Apart from the overall ranking and rankings of universities and colleges, engineering, medical, dental, law, and management institutions, the new category this year is for sustainable development goals. This evaluates institutions on the basis of their ‘green’ practices.
Anil D. Sahasrabudhe, Chairman, National Board of Accreditation, said that the retraction of research papers has been a challenge, and this time, negative marking has been introduced for retracted papers for the first time.
