NIRF ranks IIT Madras as no.1 institute in India for third year in a row

The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras has secured the top spot for third consecutive year in the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) 2021 released by the education minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Thursday.

The sixth edition of NIRF features other six IITs – including IIT Delhi, IIT Bombay, IIT Kharagpur, IIT Kanpur, IIT Guwahati and IIT Roorkee – in the top 10 in overall rankings.

Further, in the overall rankings, Jawaharlal Nehru University and Banaras Hindu University secured the ninth and tenth spot respectively.

Ranks are given on the basis of the total sum of marks assigned for various parameters including – teaching, learning, and resources; research and professional practice, graduation outcome; outreach and inclusivity; and peer perception.

The Union minister said that rankings are the measure of the quality and excellence of an institution. Therefore, developing regional ranking frameworks is a must which will ensure that the ranking framework emerges as a benchmark not only in the country, but also globally, especially for the developing economies.

He added that the New Education Policy (NEP) also provides an opportunity to internationalise the country’s education system. India must work collectively to bring more and more institutions under the rankings framework and also establish the country as a preferred global study destination, he said.

Top engineering institutions

In this category, the eight IITs (Madras, Delhi, Bombay, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Roorkee, Guwahati and Hyderabad) have been named the top eight engineering institutions. The ninth and tenth rankings have been secured by the National Institute of Technology (NIT) Tiruchirapalli and Suratkal.

Top Universities

IISc Bengaluru secured the top spot followed by Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) and Banaras Hindu Universities (BHU) which bagged the second and third positions respectively in the universities category.

Following this, Calcutta University, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Jamia Millia Islamia, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Jadavpur University, University of Hyderabad and Aligarh Muslim University, secured the subsequent positions.

Top Colleges

Miranda House is the no.1 college in the country, While Lady Sri Ram College for Women in Delhi and Loyola College in Chennai, have secured the second and third spot respectively, in the colleges category.

The fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh positions have been bagged by St Xavier’s College, Kolkata; Ramakrishna Mission Vidyamandira, Howrah; PGSR Krishnammal College for Women, Coimbatore; Presidency College, Chennai, respectively.

Medicine and Pharmacy

AIIMS Delhi, PGIMER Chandigarh and Christian Medical College, Vellore have bagged the top three spots in the medical colleges category. While, Jamia Hamdard in Delhi, Punjab University, Chandigarh and Birla Institute of Science and Technology (BITS), Pilani are the top colleges in the pharmacy category.

In the B-Schools category, IIM Ahmedabad, Bangalore and Calcutta retained their first, second and third rank respectively in the country.