32 TN colleges among top 100 in NIRF ranks

32 TN colleges among top 100 in NIRF ranks

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Chennai:10.09.2021

Five state universities slipped in the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) rankings 2021 released on Thursday. While Anna University slipped by four places in both university category and engineering category to be ranked 16 and 18 respectively, University of Madras slipped six ranks from 22 to  28.

In the colleges category, Loyola College was ranked the third best college in the country, moving up three places. But, Presidency College slipped two ranks to 7th. As many as 32 colleges from Tamil Nadu featured among the top 100, the same as last year.

Christian Medical College in Vellore has retained its third position among medical colleges. In the engineering category, IIT Madras was the top ranked institute, NIT Trichy was ranked 9th and Vellore Institute of Technology 12th.

Anna University vicechancellor R Velraj said the reduction in the number of PhD admissions and more students discontinuing their engineering degrees to join medicine as main reasons for the slip in the ranking.

"The university fixed a qualification criteria for PhD admissions, which resulted in fewer admissions. With engineering counselling scheduled ahead of medical counselling last year, more students discontinued their courses after getting medical admissions. It affected our scores in graduation outcomes," he said. Madras University vicechancellor S Gowri said the vacancies among the faculty members will be one of the reasons for the slip in ranking. "We will study the reasons and try to improve our ranking," he said.

Bharathiar University from Coimbatore slipped from 13 to 14 while Bharathidasan University in Trichy came down from 53 to 57 in the university category. Madurai Kamaraj University also slipped from 60 to 63.

However, Alagappa University in Karaikudi have moved up from 36 to 33 and Periyar University in Salem jumped 10 places from 83 to73.

In the dental colleges category, Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences came in third, Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research was ranked 8 and SRM Dental College was ranked 10th. Among the pharmacy colleges, JSS College of Pharmacy in Ooty was ranked 7th.