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New Delhi: For the third year in a row, the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras on Thursday topped the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) – the central government’s ranking for higher educational institutions in the country.
IIT Madras emerged as the top institute in the ‘overall’ category in the rankings, followed by Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore and IIT Bombay.
IIT Delhi, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Roorkee, Guwahati along with Jawaharlal Nehru University and Banaras Hindu University made the rest of the list.
NIRF categorizes institutions into 10 categories in total – ‘holistic’, ‘university’, ‘engineering’, ‘college’, ‘management’, ‘pharmacy’, ‘law’, ‘architecture’, ‘medicine’ and ‘research’. , which is a new category that was added this year.
IISc Bangalore tops the ‘University’ category, followed by JNU, BHU, Calcutta University and Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham.
In the ‘Engineering’ category, IIT Madras is the top institute followed by IIT Delhi, Bombay, Kanpur and Kharagpur.
Meanwhile, the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Ahmedabad, Bangalore and Calcutta occupied the top three ranks in the ‘Management’ category.
All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) is the best medical institute in India, as per NIRF, followed by Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh (PGIMER), Christian Medical College (CMC) Vellore, National Institute of Mental Health. and the Sanjay Gandhi Institute of Postgraduate Medical Studies in Neurosciences (NIMHANS) Bangalore and Lucknow.
In the ‘college’ category, Miranda House in Delhi is ranked as the top college in the country, followed by Shri Ram College of Commerce (SRCC) and Loyola College, both in Delhi, as well as St. Xavier’s College in Kolkata.
The top three law colleges in India are National Law School of India University (NLSIU) Bengaluru, NALSAR Hyderabad and National University of Juridical Sciences (NUJS) Kolkata.
Meanwhile, IIT Roorkee was named as the best architecture college, followed by NIT Calicut, IIT Kharagpur and School of Planning and Architecture Delhi.
Jamia Hamdard and IISc bagged the first position in the ‘Pharmacy’ and ‘Research’ categories.
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Under NIRF, institutions are ranked on various parameters such as teaching, learning and resources, research and professional practice, graduation outcomes, outreach and inclusivity, and peer perception.
Releasing the rankings, Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said that NIRF should develop itself as a model for other developing economies to follow.
“Our ranking system is so strong that we should stand as a benchmark for other developing countries. There is a difference between our methodology and those that follow. In the future, all developing economies should look to this as a benchmark. and they should approach us to help them set up their ranking structure,” he said.
The Minister further explained about the quality of education institutions in India and India’s focus on retaining its students within the country.
“Around 0.4 million students are going to study every year and we are spending some one lakh crore rupees for this. This is an opposite challenge to our economy and we must focus on internationalizing our education. I am giving an open invitation to all foreign institutions who want to set up their campus in India within the regulatory framework.
(Edited by Rachel John)
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