NIRF Ranking 2023: What Are The Parametres, Criterion Behind Ranking Of India’s Best Colleges, Universities?

NIRF Ranking 2023: The Education Ministry on Monday launched the NIRF Ranking 2023 and mentioned that it’s ‘important’ for evaluating the ‘high quality’ of academic packages provided by increased schooling establishments in schools and universities in India. Also often known as the India Rankings 2023, which implements the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) drafted for this objective by the Ministry of Education in 2015, they have been launched by Union Minister of State for Education Rajkumar Ranjan Singh within the presence of vice-chancellors and administrators of establishments of upper schooling and different high officers. This was the eighth consecutive version of India Rankings of upper schooling establishments in India. 

Speaking on the event, Rajkumar Ranjan Singh mentioned that the India Rankings function a useful software for college kids in figuring out universities based mostly on their relative standing in numerous classes and topic domains amongst increased academic establishments within the nation. It has additionally helped universities in figuring out areas for enchancment in instructing, analysis, sources, and infrastructure, he added.

The Minister burdened the requirement of working collectively to convey increasingly more establishments below the ambit of India Rankings in addition to accreditation and expressed his pleasure with regard to the rise within the variety of establishments who’ve utilized for rating in several classes and topic domains.

NIRF Ranking 2023: Three distinct additions this yr

The three distinct additions of the 2023 version of India Rankings are as follows:

— Introduction of a brand new topic particularly Agriculture & Allied Sectors

— Integration of the ‘Innovation’ rating beforehand executed by the Atal Ranking of Institutions on Innovation Achievements (ARIIA) into the India Rankings with an intention to scale back the burden on establishments of offering related knowledge to 2 completely different companies.

— Expansion of scope of ‘Architecture’ to ‘Architecture and Planning’ to incorporate establishments imparting programs in Urban and Town Planning.

With the addition of a brand new class (Innovation) and topic area (Agriculture & Allied Sectors) and growth of ‘Architecture’ to ‘Architecture and Planning’, the present portfolio of India Rankings has elevated to 13 classes and topic domains which were ranked in India Rankings 2023.

It is notable that throughout the maiden yr of India Rankings in 2016, rankings have been introduced for Universities in addition to for 3 domain-specific rankings, particularly Engineering, Management, and Pharmacy establishments. However, over the interval of eight years, 4 new classes and 5 new topic domains have been added to convey the overall tally to 5 classes — Overall, University, Colleges, Research Institutions & Innovation and eight topic domains — Engineering, Management, Pharmacy, Architecture & Planning, Medical, Law, Dental and Agriculture, and Allied Sectors.

NIRF Ranking: Five broad parameters

Five broad classes of parameters recognized within the NIRF and their weightage on a scale of 10 are given under:

Each of those 5 parameters have 2 to five sub-parameters and a complete variety of 16-18 sub-parameters are then used for rating of upper academic establishments in several classes and topic domains. Institutions are ranked based mostly on the overall sum of marks assigned for every of those 5 broad teams of parameters.

In addition to parameters used for the Overall class, the next two further sub-parameters have been included for rating establishments below ‘Research Institutions’ — Research Papers printed in journals lined within the First Quartile of Journal Citation Report (JCRQ1), and H Index.

Besides, sourcing knowledge on numerous parameters from applicant establishments, third-party sources of knowledge are additionally used, wherever doable. Scopus (Elsevier Science) and Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics) are additionally used for retrieving publications and quotation knowledge. Derwent Innovation is used for retrieving knowledge on patents and the info retrieved from these sources are then shared with the establishments for transparency with a provision to provide their inputs.

NIRF Rankings: Key highlights this yr

• Indian Institute of Technology Madras retained its 1st place in Overall Category for the fifth consecutive yr, i.e. 2019 to 2023, and in Engineering for the eighth consecutive yr, i.e. from 2016 to 2023.
  
   
• The high 100 within the Overall class consisted of 44 CFTIs/ CFUs  INI, 24 state universities, 13 deemed universities, 18 personal universities, 4 agriculture, and allied sector establishments, and three administration establishments.  
  
   
• Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru topped the Universities Category for the eighth consecutive yr, i.e. from 2016 to 2023. It stood first in Research Institutions Category for the third consecutive yr, i.e. from 2021 to 2023.
  
   
• IIM Ahmedabad topped in Management topic retaining its first place for the fourth consecutive yr, i.e. from 2020 to 2023. It was ranked among the many high two in Management topic of the India Rankings from 2016 to 2019.
  
   
• All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi occupied the highest slot in Medical for the sixth consecutive yr, i.e. from 2018 to 2023. Moreover, AIIMS is ranked at sixth place within the Overall class thereby enhancing from its ninth place in 2022.
  
   
• National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, Hyderabad topped the rating in Pharmacy for the primary time pushing Jamia Hamdard to the second slot. Jamia Hamdard was ranked 1st place for 4 consecutive years, i.e., from 2019 to 2022.
  
   
• Miranda House retained the first place amongst Colleges for the seventh consecutive yr, i.e. from 2017 to 2023.
  
   
• IIT Roorkee stood at 1st place in Architecture topic for the third consecutive yr, i.e. from 2021 to 2023.
  
   
• National Law School of India University, Bengaluru retained its first place in Law for the sixth consecutive yr, i.e. from 2018 to 2023.
  
   
• Colleges in Delhi maintained their dominance within the rating of Colleges with 5 schools out of the primary 10 schools from Delhi.
  
   
• The Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences took the highest slot for the second consecutive yr.
  
   
• Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi topped in Agriculture and Allied Sectors.
  
   
• Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur secured the primary rank within the Innovation class.

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