Not many changes in govt’s National Institutional Ranking Framework list, Delhi’s AIIMS and Bengaluru’s NLSIU are No.1 in new medical and law categories.
New Delhi: The Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (IISc) has emerged as the top-ranked higher education institution in the country for the third year in a row.
Union human resource development minister Prakash Javadekar released the National Institutional Ranking Framework Tuesday – the third year the government has published its own rankings.
There’s barely any change in the rest of the top 10 either, with IIT-Madras and IIT-Bombay slotted in at the second and third spots respectively. IIT-Delhi, fifth in 2017, leapfrogged IIT-Kharagpur into fourth spot. Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University, despite being at the centre of many controversies, is number six, followed by IIT-Kanpur, IIT-Roorkee, the Banaras Hindu University and Anna University, Chennai.
IISc, JNU and BHU were ranked the top three universities, while the IIMs dominated the management institutes category — IIM-Ahmedabad placed first, followed by IIM-Bangalore, IIM-Calcutta, IIM-Lucknow, and IIT-Bombay.
AIIMS, Delhi, topped the medical college rankings, followed by PGIMER, Chandigarh, and the Christian Medical College, Vellore.
Delhi University’s Miranda House topped the college rankings, followed by neighbour St Stephen’s College and Bishop Heber College, Tiruchirappalli.
NLSIU, Bengaluru, was named the top law school, followed by NLU, Delhi, and NALSAR, Hyderabad.
Mandatory participation
While 3,954 institutes signed up for the ranking competition this year, only 69 institutes were selected over nine categories, including law, medicine and architecture for the first time.
Interestingly, this year, public institutes receiving grants from the government were mandated to participate in the rankings, HRD higher education secretary R. Subrahmanyan announced at the event.
This is in line with the Narendra Modi government’s move to ensure that institutions utilise the funds properly.
Javadekar also insisted that mandatory participation would make the institutes more accountable and more competitive.
“A country as big as ours has only one institute in the world rankings, while a country as small as Singapore has eight,” he said, urging the institutions to transform themselves into world-class education centres.