NIRF India Rankings 2018-Indian Institute of Science tops the overall rankings

What: NIRF India Rankings 2018

When: April 3, 2018

Who: Union HRD Ministry

• The Union Minister of Human Resource Development, Shri Prakash Javadekar, on April 3, 2018, released the NIRF India Rankings 2018 in various categories on the basis of performance of Higher Educational Institutions.
• 69 top institutions in 9 categories were awarded during the event in New Delhi.
• Idea behind the rankings: The idea behind these rankings is to promote quality in education and encourage competition to perform better and to set up new benchmarks of performance in Higher education space.
• In this third edition of India Rankings, a total of 2809 institutions have participated in 9 categories. Collectively they have submitted 3954 distinct profiles, some in multiple disciplines/categories. This includes 301 Universities, 906 Engineering Institutions, 487 Management Institutions, 286 Pharmacy Institutions, 71 Law Institutions, 101 Medical Institutions, 59 Architecture Institutions and 1087 General Degree Colleges.
• India Rankings 2018 have ranked institutions in the disciplines/categories mentioned above, and have also provided a common overall rank across all disciplines for those institutions which have more than 1000 enrolled students.
• The parameters used for India Rankings 2018 are broadly similar to those used in previous years. However, some of the sub-parameters have been further tweaked for greater robustness and accuracy. In particular for evaluating Research Impact, parameters for quality of publications have been enhanced to include the number of highly cited papers, (i.e., number of papers lying in the top 25 percentile of citations) in addition to the usual parameters of publications per faculty and citations per paper.
• The Rankings List includes 100 institutions each in the Overall, University, Engineering and General College Categories, and 50 each in Management and Pharmacy, 25 in Medical and 10 each in Architecture and Law:
• Overall Rankings
  1. Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru
  2. Indian Institute of Technology Madras
  3. Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
  4. Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
  5. Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
  6. Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

• Management
  1. Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad
  2. Indian Institute of Management Bangalore
  3. Indian Institute of Management Calcutta
• University
  1. Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru
  2. Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
  3. Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi
  4. Anna University, Chennai
  5. University of Hyderabad
• Colleges
  1. Miranda House, Delhi
  2. St. Stephens`s College, Delhi
  3. Bishop Heber College, Tiruchirappalli
  4. Hindu College, Delhi
  5. Presidency College, Chennai
• Medical
  1. All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi
  2. Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh
  3. Christian Medical College, Vellore