Javadekar releases NIRF India Rankings 2018

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New Delhi : Union HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar on April 3, 2018, released the NIRF India Rankings 2018 in various categories on the basis of performance of Higher Educational Institutions at a programme held in New Delhi. Minister of State for Human Resource Development Dr Satya Pal Singh released the report on NIRF Rankings at the event. Sixtynine top institutions in 9 categories were given awards at the  event.

Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, bagged 1st position in overall ranking while IIT, Madras, topped in Engineering category. IIM, Ahmedabad, topped in Management category. Miranda House, Delhi, has topped in Gneral Colleges category followed by St Stephens College, Delhi

Speaking on the occasion, Javadekar said that the idea behind these rankings is to promote quality in education and encourage competition to perform better and to set up new benchmarks of performance in Higher education space. He lauded the efforts of the team under National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) for bringing out the most authentic ranking system of the country. The Minister also congratulated all the winner institutions for their excellent performance, according to a PIB release.

The Minister said that to promote quality education, we are providing support for setting up and upgrading of 10 public and 10 private Institutions of Eminence (IOEs) to enable them to reach amongst top 100 of world institutions ranking. The list of 20 IOEs will be released soon.

Dr Satya Pal said that to become global leader in education we have to create our own brands so that other countries may follow us. He said that healthy competition gives us a chance to improve and opportunity to excel in various aspects of life. He further said our main focus should be on quality of research which can contribute to the development of the society as a whole.

Secretary, HRD, R Subrahmanyam, said that the NIRF rankings are the corner stone of various higher education reform measures taken up by the HRD Ministry over the last four years. New categories i.e. law, architecture and medical have also been added in this year’s rankings,  he said.

In this third edition of India Rankings,  2,809 institutions have participated in 9 categories. Collectively they have submitted 3,954 distinct profiles, some in multiple disciplines/categories. They includes 301 Universities, 906 Engineering Institutions, 487 Management Institutions, 286 Pharmacy Institutions, 71 Law Institutions, 101 Medical Institutions, 59 Architecture Institutions and 1,087 General Degree Colleges.

“India Rankings 2018” have ranked institutions in the disciplines/categories mentioned above, and have also provided a common overall rank across all disciplines for those institutions which have more than 1,000 enrolled students.

The data received from both institutional and third party sources were subjected to extensive scrutiny for consistency and correctness by a team of experts. The Rankings List includes 100 institutions each in the Overall, University, Engineering and General College Categories, and 50 each in Management and Pharmacy, 25 in Medical and 10 each in Architecture and Law.

Although the Central Government funded institutions, in general continue to do well, some of the state-funded and private universities also appear prominently. Some private institutions and universities have consistently occupied good position, and some have been rising in ranks indicating that they offer value for money to their students.