NIRF Ranking List 2021 Updates: The Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan today released the National Institute of Ranking Framework (NIRF) 2021. The list was revealed through a webcast on the official website of the ranking platform – nirfindia.org. IIT-Madras has managed to retain its number one position in the overall educational institutes and engineering categories. The institute has bagged the second position in the newly introduced ‘research’ category.
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Similarly, IISc Bangalore remains the top university in India and number 1 in the research category.
The ranking framework judges institutions under five broad generic groups of parameters of Teaching, Learning and Resources (TLR), Research and Professional Practice (RP), Graduation Outcomes (GO), Outreach and Inclusivity (OI) and Perception (PR). Ranks are assigned based on the total sum of marks assigned for each of these five broad groups of parameters.
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“Rankings are the measure of the quality and excellence of an institution. We must develop regional ranking frameworks and also work to ensure that our ranking framework emerges as a benchmark not only in the country, but also globally, especially for the developing economies,” Pradhan said. Read less
The top two ranks in the university ranking remained same in 2019 and 2020. The Indian Institute of Science (IISC) obtained the top rank in the University category followed by Jawaharlal Nehru University and Banaras Hindu University at second and third rank, respectively in the NIRF rankings 2020.
Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) secured 6th rank among the ‘Top 10 Universities’ of the country in the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF)-2021 Rankings. The varsity improved its position from 10th last year in the NIRF. Vice-Chancellor Prof. Najma Akhtar said, “ this achievement is all the more significant because of the challenging time the country and university has been facing due to Covid-19 pandemic and also in the light of increased competition in the ranking.” The Vice Chancellor also attributed the achievement to the improved perception about the university with regard to teaching, placements, research etc. and hoped to do better in the coming years.
JMI also improved its performance in the ‘overall category’ where it has been ranked 13th, improving from 16th last year. The IITs, IIMs, IISc and other top technical institutions and universities are included in overall category.
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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,
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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.