NIRF Ranking 2021 Updates: IIT-Madras sweeps rankings

In the latest rankings, colleges and universities from West Bengal have performed well. Here's what the chief minister has tweeted.

Elated to share that as per NIRF India Rankings '21, Calcutta University & Jadavpur University are the top ranking universities in India.

Among colleges, St Xavier's College, Kolkata & Ram Krishna Mission Vidyamandir, Howrah have also secured top ranks.

Congratulations to all!

— Mamata Banerjee (@MamataOfficial) September 9, 2021

Apart from JNU, universities such as Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) and Hyderabad Central University (HCU), which have been at the centre of the student pushback against the union government, are also among the top 10 in the country. While JMI has improved its rank from the tenth position last year to the sixth rank, HCU slipped a few places from rank six to nine. Read detailed report

Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati has retained its position in National Institutional Rankings Framework (NIRF) achieving 7th rank in the ‘Engineering’ category this year and ranked 8th in the ‘Overall’ Category in NIRF 2021. Congratulating the Institute on its performance, Prof. T. G. Sitharam, Director, IIT Guwahati, said, “This is a reflection of the dedicated effort by the institute faculty, staff and students despite the pandemic. This is clearly reflected in both overall and engineering ranks over the past several years and seen in international rankings as well.”

IIT Madras has been ranked as the number 1 institute in India in both ‘Overall’ and ‘Engineering’ Categories in NIRF 2021. IIT Madras has bagged the Top Rank in the ‘Overall’ Category for the third consecutive year and No. 1 in the ‘Engineering’ category for the sixth consecutive year. Congratulating students, faculty members and other employees for their hard work that has resulted in such extraordinary performance, Prof Bhaskar Ramamurthi, Director, IIT Madras, said, “We are delighted to maintain our pre-eminent position in the NIRF rankings yet again. IIT Madras continues to excel in teaching, research, and innovation, and has launched several new initiatives to implement the NEP. ”

IIT Roorkee has been ranked as the top institute in the architecture category, followed by NIT Calicut and IIT Kharagpur at second and third ranks, respectively. 

AIIMS Delhi has been ranked as the top institute in the medical institutes' category.

Rank 1: AIIMS Delhi
Rank 2: PGIMER
Rank 3: CMC. Vellore
Rank 4: NIMHANS, Bangalore
Rank 5: Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences,  

The Ministry of Education (MoE) has released the NIRF Rankings 2021. Here's what Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has to say: 

e-Release of Indian Ranking 2021 under NIRF is live with Hon'ble Education Minister. Watch Here https://t.co/zjytR384Pz

— Ministry of Education (@EduMinOfIndia) September 9, 2021

In the new research institutions category, the first rank has been obtained by IISc Bangalore, followed by IIT Madras and IIT Bombay at second and third ranks, respectively. IIT Delhi and IIT Kharagpur are at the fourth and fifth ranks. 

Eight out of the top ten engineering institutes are IITs. NIT Tiruchirapalli and NIT Surathkal have secured ninth and tenth ranks, respectively. 

Delhi University's Miranda House college has retained the top spot in the college category, followed by LSR College for Women at second rank and Loyola College, Chennai at third rank 

The Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has begun the online webcast to declare the sixth NIRF ranking. Here's a direct link to watch the LIVE address. 

The number of Indian institutes registered for the NIRF ranking 2020 increased by 20 per cent as compared to 2019. In 2020, 3,800 institutes participated in NIRF Rankings. The institutes were given scores based on – teaching, learning and resources (TLR), research and professional practice (RP), graduation outcomes (GO), outreach and inclusivity (OI), peer perception.

IIMs have a monopoly in the B-school rankings. Last year six out of the top 10 spots were secured by IIMs. 

Rank 1: IIM Ahmedabad

Rank 2: IIM Bangalore

Rank 3: IIM Calcutta

Rank 4: IIM Lucknow

Rank 5: IIT Kharagpur

Rank 6: IIM Kozhikode

Rank 7: IIM Indore

Rank 8: IIT Delhi

Rank 9: Xavier Labour Relations Institute (XLRI) (Jharkhand)

Rank 10: Management Development Institute (Haryana)

The education institutes and universities all over India are ranked across several parameters including teaching, learning and resources, research and professional practices, graduation outcome outreach and inclusivity, and perception.

Besides the overall rankings, NIRF also lists out best institutions across another nine categories — college, university, medical, engineering, management, pharmacy, law, architecture and dental.

Last year, Jamia Millia Islamia, which was at the centre of the student pushback against the Union government, made it into the top 10 universities of the country. Its ranking improved from 19 to 16 under the overall category. Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), which witnessed student protests over fee hike, also maintained its position as the second-best university in the country, after IISc-Bangalore. 

In the pharmacy category, the top institute was Jamia Hamdard in New Delhi followed by Panjab University, Chandigarh, according to the ministry ranking. The National Institute of Pharmaceutical Research, Mohali stood third.

In the medical colleges' category, AIIMS Delhi retained its' top position followed by PGI, Chandigarh and CMC, Vellore.

Last year, IIT-Madras, IISc Bangalore and IIT-Delhi ranked as top three institutions in NIRF annual ranking. In the B-school rankings, IIM-Ahmedabad bagged top position followed by IIM-Bangalore and IIM-Calcutta at the second and third spot. 

The top three universities in annual ranking include IISc Bangalore, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) and Banaras Hindu University (BHU).

The NIRF 2021 will be announced by Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan in a virtual event. Last year, the rankings were too were announced in virtual mode due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The ranking was first initiated in 2016 and since then every year, the government releases a list of top universities, colleges, best engineering, medical, law and management institutes. Last year, the overall category was added where IIT-Madras bagged number 1 position.