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NIRF Rankings of Indian Educational Institutions

Correspondent TCP July 15, 2022

The Minister of Education, Shri Dharmendra Pradhan, released the NIRF rankings for educational institutions in India today.

NIRF stands for National Institute Ranking Framework.

How are these rankings calculated?

Before we read about any ranking, we need to understand how it was calculated.

According to the guidelines released by the Ministry, this ranking format started in 2017.

This study measures 5 main parameters and several sub parameters under that.

All parameters are not equal. The parameters used for this ranking, with their weightage, are:

How were the NIRF rankings calculated? Image Source: Ministry document on the ranking mechanism

All institutions that are either state funded or have more than 1000 students were given an overall rank, and there were discipline ranks for individual discipline institutions.

How was the data collected?

Institutions submitted their own data. They were also required to make this submission public on their own websites and keep this submitted data there for 3 years.

And the rankings are…

Top educational institutions – Over all

  1. IIT Madras
  2. Indian Institute of Science
  3. IIT Bombay
  4. IIT Delhi
  5. IIT Kanpur
  6. IIT Kharagpur
  7. IIT Roorkee
  8. IIT Guwahati
  9. AIIMS, Delhi
  10. JNU (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
  11. Benaras Hindu University

Top 10 Universities of India – 2022

  1. Indian Institute of Science
  2. JNU
  3. Jamia Milia Islamia
  4. Jadavpur University
  5. Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham
  6. Banaras Hindu University
  7. Manipal Academy of Higher Education
  8. Calcutta University
  9. Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT)
  10. University of Hyderabad

Top 10 Research Institutes of India

  1. Indian Institute of Science
  2. IIT Madras
  3. IIT Delhi
  4. IIT Bombay
  5. IIT Kharagpur
  6. IIT Kanpur
  7. Tata Institute of Fundamental Research – TIFR
  8. IIT, Roorkee
  9. AIIMS, Delhi
  10. Vellore Institute of Technology
  11. Homi Bhabha National Institute

Top 10 Medical Colleges of India

  1. AIIMS, Delhi
  2. PGIMER, Chandigarh
  3. CMC, Vellore
  4. NIMHANS, Bangalore
  5. BHU, Varanasi
  6. JIPMER, Puducherry
  7. Sanjay Gandhi PGIMR, Lucknow
  8. Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham
  9. Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram
  10. KMC, Manipal

The full list of rankings with scores is available here.