The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)-Madras continued to be on the top position ‘overall’ in the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) 2024 released by the union Ministry of Education (MoE) on Monday.
According to the rankings, IIT-Madras has retained the top position for the sixth consecutive year this time in the ‘overall’ category and in the ‘engineering’ category for the ninth year in a row.
Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru has been ranked the top university in the country yet again this year.
The IITs featured in the top 10 of most categories. IIT-Bombay stood the third position in the ‘overall’ category, followed by IIT-Delhi, IIT-Kanpur and IIT-Kharagpur. The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) was ranked seventh in this aspect. IIT-Delhi was also ranked the second-best institute in the ‘engineering’ category, third in the ‘research’ category and fourth in the top five management institutes in India. IIT-Bombay was ranked first in the ‘innovation’ category, up from seventh last year. “The institute’s students, faculty and staff has made this possible,” said Prof Shireesh Kedare, director, IIT-Bombay.
In a significant move in the ‘colleges’ category, Hindu College, Delhi University made it to the top this year replacing Miranda House, which had been on the top position for the last seven years.
The Indian Institute of Management (IIM)- Ahmedabad topped the ‘management’ category retaining its first position for the fifth consecutive year.
This year, three new categories have been added to the rankings —- Open Universities, Skill Universities and state-funded public universities.
Also, this year the evaluation criteria has been modified in terms of faculty -student ratio. The ratio has been changed to 1:10 from 1:5 in medical institutes; and 1:20 from 1:15 in state government universities.
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