IIT-Madras ranked best institution, IISc top univ

IIT-Madras ranked best institution, IISc top univ

Manash.Gohain@timesgroup.com

New Delhi:10.09.2021

Continuing its good run for the third year in a row, IIT-Madras has topped the ‘India Rankings 2021’ released by the ministry of education on Thursday, while in the colleges category Delhi’s Miranda House and Lady Shri Ram College for Women retained the first and second positions among the top 100. IIT-Madras retained top position in the ‘engineering’ and ‘overall’ categories.

Among the universities, IISc-Bangalore is ranked number one, followed by Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU). In the research category, that was introduced this year, IISc-Bangalore emerged topper and IITMadras second.

This is the sixth edition of the India Rankings instituted by the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) by the ministry of education, which now ranks higher education institutions in 11 categories.

Poor performance by Guj in overall rankings

The poor performance of Gujarat in the latest NIRF ranking continued into 2021. IIT Gandhinagar (IIT-Gn) ranked 33 in the ‘overall’ national ranking announced on Thursday, Gujarat University (GU) ranked 43rd in the ‘Universities’ category. The only saving grace for Gujarat was performance of institutions in various categories. TNN P 5

Tamil Nadu has 19 institutions in top 100 Indian universities

Number of unique applicants to the rankings have increased from 2,426 in 2016 to 4,030 in 2021 whereas the total number of applications for ranking in various categories have increased from 3,565 in 2016 to 6,272 in 2021.

Stating that IISc is the benchmark in research, which IIT-Madras will work towards, professor Bhaskar Ramamurthi, director, IIT-Madras, said, “We are delighted to maintain our pre-eminent position in the NIRF rankings yet again which indicate that we are constantly improving in all the parameters. In fact, all the institutions are improving which is a good thing. IIT-Madras continues to excel in teaching, research, and innovation, and has launched several new initiatives to implement the National Education Policy (NEP).” While not much have changed in terms of the rankings of the top institutions in the category of overall, engineering, law, medical and management, the college category has maximum changes with Loyola College (3), St Xavier’s Kolkata and Ramakrishna Mission Vidyamandira, Howrah (5) breaking into the top five for the first time. However, Delhi University, which itself has not featured in the overall and university top10, has five of its colleges in the top10 and12 in the top 20 categories. There are 28 colleges in the top 100 from Delhi, followed by eight each from Chennai and Coimbatore.

Region-wise, Tamil Nadu has 19 institutions in top 100 universities, followed by Maharashtra with12 and10 from Karnataka. In the overall category too the numbers are same for Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra. However, Delhi with seven in top 100 overall pips Karnataka with third highest numbers of institutions in this category.