HRD Ministry announces universities ranking, IIM B, IIT M, JNU top the Chart
Education is an essential part of anyone’s life and Government of India realizes that to develop the nation overall, high emphasis on the education is compulsory. They have now released a list of top 100 Universities of India. In addition to that, the HRD Ministry has also released a list of top Engineering, Management and Pharmaceutical Educational Institutes in India as well.
Let’s take a look at the Universities that are featured in the list.
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NIRF-Deciding Ranking
National Institute of Ranking Framework (NIRF) was launched by Minister of HRD, Smriti Irani on 29 September 2015. This framework outlines a methodology to rank institutions across the country.
The major parameters that are kept in mind are “Teaching, Learning and Resources,” “Research and Professional Practices,” “Graduation Outcomes,” “Outreach and Inclusivity,” and “Perception”.
There have been six categories of educational Institutes to be ranked. Four have been ranked and two (Architecture and Colleges) will be released soon. Approximately 3000 colleges have participated in the NIRF Ranking initiative for the year 2016.
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Top 10 Universities
- Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
- Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai
- Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
- University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad
- Tezpur University, Tezpur, Assam
- University of Delhi, Delhi
- Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi
- Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram
- Birla Institute of Technology and Science –Pilani
- Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh
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Education is apart from Controversy
Despite being in controversy, Universities such as JNU, AMU, Hyderabad University etc have fairly done well on the parameters of NIRF. JNU controversy where students were charged of sedition has stood third in the ranking.
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Hyderabad University which was linked to the suicide of Dalit student Rohit Vemula was ranked best in the country in terms of ‘outreach and inclusively’.
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C.N.R. Rao on the Rankings
Bharat Ratna awardee and Former Director of IISc Banglore, CNR Rao said “IISc is not in the world rankings for research and innovation. IISc is not a college. They should be like Massachusetts Institute of Technology or University of California, Berkeley …top class in teaching and innovation. In research, IISc was doing better before. They aren’t doing so well now. I don’t know why.”
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However, IISc Director Anurag Kumar said the institute is on the right track and he credited the first rank of the institute to the hard work of students and faculty.
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Top 10 Engineering Colleges of Country
- Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
- Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
- Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
- Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
- Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
- Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee
- Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad
- Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar
- Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar-Rupnagar
- Indian Institute of Technology, Patna
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IITs still on the top
Not only top 10, IITs can even be seen frequently in the next 10 ranks. The first five IITs which were established in the 1950s and 1960s are still the favourite among the Engineering aspirants and took the first five spots. IIT Madras topped the list with a weighted score of 89.42, followed by IIT Bombay, IIT Kharagpur, IIT Delhi and IIT Kanpur with a weighted score of 87.67, 83.91, 82.03 and 81.07, respectively.
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Top 10 Pharmaceutical institutes
- Manipal College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Manipal
- University institute of pharmaceutical sciences –Chandigarh
- Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi
- Poona College of Pharmacy, Erandwane, Pune
- Institute of Pharmacy, Nirma University, Ahmedabad
- Bombay College of Pharmacy, Mumbai
- Birla Institute of technology, Ranchi
- Amrita School of Pharmacy, Kochi
- JSS college of Pharmacy, Ootacamund
- JSS college of Pharmacy, Mysuru
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Top 10 Management Institutes
- Indian Institute of Management, Bengaluru
- Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad
- Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta
- Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow
- Indian Institute of Management, Udaipur
- Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode
- International Management Institute, New Delhi
- Indian Institute of Forest Management, Bhopal
- Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
- Indian Institute of Management, Indore
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Rankings cast a doubt on NIRF
Many eminent management personalities found that there are many “surprise elements” in the ranking, beginning with slotting of institutes which do not make the cut. Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies (JBIMS) which is popularly known as the CEO factory of India is not given a place in the list.
Saibal Chattopadhyay, Director, IIM Calcutta said, “If there are issues with regard to the ranking, we should look at improving upon it. Now we have a general idea of the NIRF.”
Another professor from an IIM said that he was surprised that despite being such a great Institute IIM-Indore was barely broke out in top 10.
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Methodology of Ranking
The assessment by NIRF has been made on the basis of five parameters: teaching, learning and resources; research productivity, impact and intellectual property rights; graduation outcome; outreach and inclusivity; and perception. Faculty with PhDs and visiting faculty with PhDs along with sports facilities are also a factor. Even the performance of Students in National Exams like GATE, CAT etc are included in ranking them.
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Importance of Rankings
According to the World Economic Forum, while rankings do have value, often they “do not serve as the best proxy of quality and relevance of tertiary education institutions”. A national ranking system and one that is as exhaustive as this one will propel institutions into higher world rankings.
According to the best ranking sites in the world, QS (Quacquarelli Symonds) and Times Higher Education rankings, there are almost no Indian universities in the top 100.
Vice-chancellor of JNU, M Jagadeesh Kumar had previously said that this kind of rankings will motivate universities to compete with each other and become role models for their teaching, research and social commitment and the world is going to take note of it.
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Entrance Exams
Maximum of the Universities has entrance exams for admitting students. Recently IIT-JEE was conducted by CBSE all over the country. Similarly, many exams will be conducted for admission in top Universities and colleges of the country.
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