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NIRF ranking 2020: IIT Kharagpur ranks as India’s number one architecture institute

NIRF ranking 2020: The rankings are based on several parameters, which includes teaching, learning and resources, research and professional practice, graduation outcomes, outreach and inclusion and perception.

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NIRF ranking 2020: The Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur was named as the country’s best institute in the field of architecture as per the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF), which was released on Thursday by the HRD ministry. IIT Kharagpur secured the top spot for the third time in a row, since the inclusion of Architecture in NIRF back in 2018.

The second and third positions were held by Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee and and National Institute of Technology Calicut receptively. All the three institutes had the same rankings in the previous edition as well.

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Here are the top 10 architecture institutes as per NIRF 2020:

Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
National Institute of Technology Calicut
Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology University, Ahmedabad

School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi
Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur
School of Planning and Architecture, Bhopal
National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli
School of Planning and Architecture, Vijayawada
Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi

Unlike the previous editions, there was a delay in the release of NIRF rankings due to the novel coronavirus. The announcement, made by HRD minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank, was live-streamed on the official Twitter handle of Ministry of Human Resource Development.

Meanwhile, the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore was ranked as the country’s premier university in the NIRF 2020 listings. New Delhi’s Jawaharlal National University (JNU) and Banaras Hindu University (BHU) stood in the second and third position.

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The rankings are based on several parameters, which includes teaching, learning and resources, research and professional practice, graduation outcomes, outreach and inclusion and perception. The objective behind this is to increase the competition among country’s premier institutes and works towards their growth simultaneously.

The ranking framework releases several lists including one overall list of top Indian higher education institutes (HEIs) and several subcategories based on stream and nature of institute.

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The NIRF rankings will be released for a total of 10 categories – Overall, Universities, Engineering, Colleges, Management, Pharmacy, Medical, Architecture, Dental and Law.

First published on: 11-06-2020 at 16:21 IST