Hummingbird News Desk
KOLKATA, 9 SEP: The University of Calcutta has secured the fourth position in the National Institute Ranking Framework, and topped the chart among all state-run varsities of the country.
The Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, the Jawaharlal Nehru University and Banaras Hindu University, all central institutions have come above the Calcutta University (CU).
The Jadavpur University (JU), another government-aided institute in Bengal, came eighth on the list. The Central university, Viswa Bharati in West Bengal has ranked 64th and University of Burdwan has secured 85th rank.
In college category, St Xavier’s college and Ramkrishna Vidyamandir, Howrah have secured the fourth and fifth ranks respectively. Ramkrishna Mission Vivekananda Centenary College, Rahara and Ramkrishna Mission Residential College, Kolkata have come 15th and 21st in the list. In the top 100 colleges on the list, Bethune college in Kolkata has ranked 77th.
Seven Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) — IIT Madras, IIT Delhi, IIT Bombay, IIT Kharagpur, IIT Kanpur, IIT Guwahati and IIT Roorkee — figured in the top 10 in the overall rankings.
Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan released the NIRF Ranking 2021 on Thursday listing the top institutes and universities in India this year. The education minister went live from his Twitter handle with Minister of State Sanjay Dhotre and AICTE Chairman Anil Saharsrabudhe to announce the top universities of India.
The top two institutes remain the same as last year in the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF). IIT Madras has topped the ‘Overall’ NIRF Rankings and the second spot was taken by IISc Bengaluru. The third spot has changed from last year’s IIT Delhi to IIT Bombay.
“The NIRF Indian rankings should not be considered as an end but the beginning of the improvement of quality in higher education,” said Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan in his live webinar.
India has over 45,000 degree colleges, over 1000 universities and around 1500 top institutes.
The number of Indian institutes registered for the NIRF ranking 2020 increased by 20 percent as compared to 2019. In 2020, 3,800 institutes participated in NIRF Rankings. In 2021, the number was 6000.
The NIRF is the authoritative national system for ranking of educational institutions.
The ranking framework evaluates institutions on 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.
This is the sixth edition of the NIRF rankings. The category of dental colleges was added last year, while this year, another new category has been added research institutions.
