New Delhi: Delhi University’s Miranda House has topped the list of best colleges in the country for the third consecutive year.
While Delhi’s Hindu College is at number two, Presidency College in Chennai is at number three and St Stephen’s College is at number four.
The Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) Monday released the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) list, which is the government’s ranking of educational institutions.
According to the list released by President Ram Nath Kovind, IIT-Madras is the best institute of higher education in the country followed by Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bangalore and IIT-Delhi. There are seven IITs in the top ten institutes of higher learning along with Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), which is at number seven, and Banaras Hindu University (BHU), which has been ranked tenth.
Rankings are released category wise, which includes an overall category for best institution, best college and separate categories for management, pharmacy, medicine, law, architecture and engineering.
In the management category, IIM-Bangalore has been judged the best followed by IIM-Ahmedabad at number two and IIM-Calcutta at number three.
Jamia Hamdard is the best college in the pharmacy category while AIIMS-Delhi has been ranked the best institute for medicine. In the law category, National Law College in Bangalore has topped the list.
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NIRF — a brainchild of Smriti Irani
The NIRF was introduced by former HRD minister Smriti Irani with an aim to create a sense of competition among educational institutions and to give more authenticity to the idea of ranking them. Before NIRF, there were only private rankings in India.
Ranking of higher education institutions is something that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government has focused a lot on in the last five years especially the idea of getting Indian institutes in global rankings.
The whole idea of creating ‘Institutes of Eminence’, under which the Reliance Foundation’s proposed Jio Institute has been chosen along with IIT-Bombay and IIT-Delhi, is to help them make a mark in global rankings.
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