NIRF Ranking List 2021 Updates: Union Education minister Dharmendra Pradhan today declared the National Institutional Ranking Framework India ranking 2021 (NIRF India ranking 2021) at nirfindia.org. The education minister released the sixth annual NIRF India ranking list 2021. IIT Madras was adjudged the top institute in the NIRF overall category for the sixth consecutive year. A new category, research institution, was introduced this year taking the total number of categories to 11.
The ranking framework judges institutions under five broad generic groups of parameters of Teaching, Learning and Resources (TLR), Research and Professional Practice (RP), Graduation Outcomes (GO), Outreach and Inclusivity (OI) and Perception (PR). Ranks are assigned based on the total sum of marks assigned for each of these five broad groups of parameters.
IIT-Madras, IISc-Bangalore, and IIT-Bombay have emerged as the country’s top three higher education institutions in the sixth edition of the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) announced by Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan Thursday.
AIIMS-Delhi is the country’s top medical institute, followed by PGIMER Chandigarh and Christian Medical College in Vellore.
The research category was introduced this year and IISc-Bangalore has been adjudged the best, followed by IIT-Madras and IIT-Bombay. This year roughly 6,000 education institutions participated in NIRF.
Key Highlights of NIRF Rankings 2021:
- Indian Institute of Technology Madras retains 1st Position in Overall Category as well as in Engineering for the third consecutive year.
- Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru tops the University as well as Research Institution category introduced for the first time in India Rankings 2021.
- IIM Ahmedabad tops in Management subject and All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi occupies the top slot in Medical for the fourth consecutive year.
- Jamia Hamdard tops the list in Pharmacy subject for the third consecutive year.
- Miranda College retains 1st position amongst colleges for the fifth consecutive year.
- IIT Roorkee takes the top slot for the first time in Architecture subject displacing IIT Kharagpur.
- National Law School of India University, Bangalore retains its first position for in Law for the fourth consecutive years.
- Colleges in Delhi dominate ranking of colleges with five colleges out of first 10 colleges from Delhi.
- Manipal College of Dental Sciences, Manipal, secure 1st position in “Dental” category.
NIRF Rankings 2021 Overall Best University in India
Rank 1: IIT Madras
Rank 2: IISc Bengaluru
Rank 3: IIT Bombay
Rank 4: IIT Delhi
Rank 5: IIT Kanpur
Rank 6: IIT Kharagpur
Rank 7: IIT Roorkee
Rank 8: IIT Guwahati
Rank 9: JNU
Rank 10: BHU
NIRF University Ranking 2021 List of Top 10
Rank 1: IISc Bengaluru
Rank 2: JNU
Rank 3: BHU
Rank 4: Calcutta University
Rank 5: Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham
Rank 6: Jamia Millia Islamia
Rank 7: Manipal Academy Higher Education
Rank 8: Jadavpur University
Rank 9: University of Hyderabad
Rank 10: Aligarh Muslim University
NIRF Ranking 2021 Engineering Best Colleges
Rank 1: IIT-Madras
Rank 2: IIT-Delhi
Rank 3: IIT-Bombay
Rank 4: IIT-Kanpur
Rank 5: IIT Kharagpur
Rank 6: IIT-Roorkee
Rank 7: IIT-Guwahati
Rank 8: IIT-Hyderabad
Rank 9: NIT Tiruchirappalli
Rank 10: NIT Surathkal
NIRF MBA Ranking 2021 Top Colleges
Rank 1: IIM Ahmedabad
Rank 2: IIM Bangalore
Rank 3: IIM Calcutta
Rank 4: IIM Kozhikode
Rank 5: IIT-Delhi
NIRF Ranking 2021 Pharmacy Colleges
Rank 1: Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi
Rank 2: Punjab University, Chandigarh
Rank 3: BITS, Pilani
Rank 4: NIPER, Mohali
Rank 5: Institute of Chemical Technology
NIRF Top Colleges Ranking 2021
Rank 1: Miranda House
Rank 2: Lady Shri Ram College
Rank 3: Loyola College
Rank 4: St Xavier’s College
Rank 5: Ramakrishna Mission Visyamandir
Rank 6: PSGR Krishnammal College for Women
Rank 7: Presidency College
Rank 8: St Stephen’s College, Delhi
Rank 9: Hindu College
Rank 10: Shri Ram College of Commerce
NIRF MBBS College Ranking 2021 Top Medical Colleges
Rank 1: AIIMS, Delhi
Rank 2: PGIMER, Chnadigarh
Rank 3: Christian Medical College, Vellore
Rank 4: National Institute Of Mental Health & Neuro Sciences, Bengaluru
Rank 5: Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow
NIRF LAW University Ranking 2021 Top 5
Rank 1: NLSIU, Bengaluru
Rank 2: NLU, Delhi
Rank 3: NALSAR University of Law
Rank 4: West Bengal National University of Juridical Science
Rank 5: IIT Kharagpur
NIRF Ranking 2021 Best Architecture Colleges in India
Rank 1: IIT, Roorkee
Rank 2: IIT, Calicut
Rank 3: IIT, Kharagpur
Rank 4: School of Planning and Architecture Delhi
Rank 5: CEPTU, Ahmadabad
NIRF India Rankings 2021 for Dental Colleges
Rank 1: Manipal College of Dental Science, Udupi
Rank 2: DY Patil Vidyapeeth, Pune
Rank 3: Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Science, Chennai
Rank 4: Maulana Azad Institute of Dental Science, Delhi
Rank 5: King George’s Medical University, Lucknow
NIRF Ranking 2021 Best Research Institutes in India
Rank 1: IISc Bengaluru
Rank 2: IIT Madras
Rank 3: IIT Bombay
Rank 4: IIT Delhi
Rank 5: IIT Kharagpur
About NIRF Ranking
- The National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) was approved by the MHRD and launched by Honourable Minister of Human Resource Development on 29th September 2015.
- This framework outlines a methodology to rank institutions across the country. The methodology draws from the overall recommendations broad understanding arrived at by a Core Committee set up by MHRD, to identify the broad parameters for ranking various universities and institutions.
- The parameters broadly cover “Teaching, Learning and Resources,” “Research and Professional Practices,” “Graduation Outcomes,” “Outreach and Inclusivity,” and “Perception”.
- First NIRF Rankings – 2016 based on this framework were released on 4th April 2016.
- The NIRF rankings 2021 categories are- Overall, Universities, Engineering, Colleges, Research institution (newly added), Management, Pharmacy, Medical, Architecture, and Dental and Law. The dental college NIRF ranking was introduced last year.
What is NIRF, and why did the government decide to rank universities?
National Institute Ranking Framework or NIRF is the first-ever effort by the government to rank higher education institutions (HEIs) in the country. Before NIRF’s launch in 2016, HEIs were usually ranked by private entities, especially news magazines. While participation in the NIRF was voluntary in the initial years, it was made compulsory for all government-run educational institutions in 2018. This year, roughly 6,000 institutions have participated in NIRF — about twice the number in 2016.
In order to be ranked, all education institutions are assessed on five parameters: teaching, learning and resources, research and professional practices, graduation outcomes, outreach and inclusivity, and perception. NIRF lists out best institutions across 11 categories – overall national ranking, universities, engineering, college, medical, management, pharmacy, law, architecture, dental and research.
Why did the Union government decide to rank HEIs?
The idea of NIRF has its roots in the global rankings. The union government and government-run HEIs were quite upset about their standing in QS World University Rankings and the Times Higher Education World University Ranking. During the Winter Session of Parliament in 2015, the then Education Minister Smriti Irani had attributed their poor performance in global league tables to subjective ranking methodology. “This is primarily because of the criteria used by these agencies for ranking, which depend a lot on the perception of a select group of persons,” she had said in Parliament.
To counter this, India decided to emulate the Chinese example. When China encountered the same problem about two decades ago, they responded with a university ranking system of their own. The Shanghai Rankings, done by the Shanghai Jiao Tong University, was born out of this in 2003. Nine Chinese universities and three from India (Indian Institute of Science (IISc), IIT Kharagpur and IIT Delhi) made it to the top 500 in the first edition of the Shanghai Rankings.
India too decided to start its own rankings, with parameters that would be more suitable to the Indian context. There was one big difference, though. While the Shanghai Rankings were international in character from the first year itself, the NIRF only ranked Indian HEIs. The long-term plan was to make it an international league table.
So, have these rankings gone international?
No, not yet. NIRF is in its sixth year, but it continues to only rank Indian HEIs. On Thursday however, the incumbent education minister, Dharmendra Pradhan, said that the NIRF should not only be a benchmark in the country but also globally, especially for developing countries. This is being seen as an indication that the government hasn’t abandoned the idea of benchmarking the top HEIs outside India.
Source : NIRF Website, IE
