NIRF rankings 2024 released, IIT-Madras is the best institute in India, IISc Bengaluru tops among universities
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Three new categories have been released which include Open Universities, Skill Universities and State-funded government universities
The National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) 2024, now in its ninth edition, has been released today, August 12, by the Ministry of Education (MoE) at Bharat Mandapan, New Delhi. IIT-Madras is the best institute in India, IISc Bengaluru is the top university followed by JNU New Delhi and JMI New Delhi in the second and third positions respectively.
The top engineering institute is IIT Madras. It has also topped in the Overall category. The second and third positions are bagged by IIT Delhi and IIT Bombay respectively.
Among the management institutes, the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA) has been ranked as the best management institute for the fifth consecutive year in the NIRF India Rankings 2024.
Key changes
Three new categories have been released this year, that is, Open Universities, Skill Universities and State-funded government universities.
Total 10,885 applications were received this year. Last year, 5,543 higher education institutions took part in the NIRF.
The evaluation criteria this year has also been changed. The faculty to student ratio has been changed from 1:15 to 1:10 in medical institutes and increased from 1:15 to 1:20 in the state government universities.
The NIRF 2024 rankings has been published on the website https://www.nirfindia.org/. The top-ranking institutions have been categorised into 16 categories — overall, universities, medical, engineering, management, law, architecture, research institutions, colleges, pharmacy, dental, agriculture and allied sectors, state funded government universities, skill universities, open universities and innovation.
The NIRF was approved by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD) and officially launched by the Minister of HRD on September 29, 2015.
The official site states, "This framework outlines a methodology to rank institutions across the country. The methodology draws from the overall recommendations and broad understanding arrived at by a Core Committee set up by MHRD to identify the broad parameters for ranking various universities and institutions. The parameters broadly cover 'Teaching, Learning and Resources,' 'Research and Professional Practices,' 'Graduation Outcomes,' 'Outreach and Inclusivity,' and 'Perception.'"
Major parameters
The NIRF rankings parameter include teaching, learning, resources, graduation outcomes, research, perception, outreach, and inclusivity. While the main parameters have remained the same since 2017, there have been some major changes in the sub-parameters. This year, each major institution will receive both an overall ranking and a discipline-specific ranking where applicable.
In the NIRF ranking 2023 last year, IIT Madras bagged the top position in the 'Overall' category, followed by the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, in second place, and IIT Delhi in third. In the 'Universities' category, IISc Bengaluru topped the rankings, with Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in second place and Jamia Millia Islamia in third. Miranda House secured the top spot in the 'Colleges' category, with Hindu College, Delhi, and Presidency College, Chennai, coming in second and third, respectively.
In the 'Research' institutions category, the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, secured the top rank, with the Indian Institute of Technology Madras and the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi ranking second and third, respectively.
Source: educationtimes.com