New Delhi: Indian Institute of Technology Madras has retained first position in Overall Category as well as in Engineering for the third consecutive year in India Rankings 2021 instituted by the National Institutional Ranking Framework, released by Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, here today.
Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru has topped the University as well as Research Institution category introduced for the first time in India Rankings 2021, while IIM Ahmedabad has topped in Management subject and All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi has occupied the top slot in Medical for the fourth consecutive year.
Jamia Hamdard has topped the list in Pharmacy subject for the third consecutive year.
While University of Delhi’s Miranda College has retained 1st position amongst colleges for the fifth consecutive year, IIT Roorkee has taken the top slot for the first time in Architecture subject displacing IIT Kharagpur.
National Law School of India University, Bangalore has retained its first position for in Law for the fourth consecutive years.
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Colleges in Delhi have dominated ranking of colleges with five colleges out of first 10 colleges from Delhi. Manipal College of Dental Sciences, Manipal, has secured 1st position in “Dental” category.
Speaking on the occasion, Pradhan said that a robust and a role model ranking framework will serve as India’s contribution to the global learning landscape. “We must ensure that our ranking framework emerges as a benchmark not only in the country, but also globally, especially for the developing economies,” he said and also urged to develop regional ranking frameworks.
The Minister stressed that the NEP also provides an opportunity to internationalise the education system. “We must work collectively to bring more and more institutions under our rankings framework and also establish India as a preferred global study destination,” he said.
This was the sixth consecutive edition of India Rankings of HEIs in India. During its maiden year in 2016, rankings were announced for University category as well as for three domain-specific rankings, namely Engineering, Management and Pharmacy institutions. Over the period of six years, three new categories and five new subject domains were added to bring the total tally to 4 four categories, namely Overall, University, College and Research Institutions and 7 subjects, namely Engineering, Management, Pharmacy, Architecture, Medical, Law and Dental in 2021. Research institutions have been ranked for the first time in India Rankings 2021.
The National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF), launched in November 2015 by the Ministry of Education, was used for this edition as well as for the past five editions of India Rankings released for the years 2016 to 2021.
– global bihari bureau
