National Institutional Ranking Framework

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National Institutional Ranking Framework
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Categories Higher education
FrequencyAnnual
Publisher Ministry of Education
First issue2016
Country India
Website nirfindia.org

National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) is a ranking methodology adopted by the Ministry of Education, Government of India, to rank institutions of higher education in India. The framework was approved by the former Ministry of Human Resource Development (now the Ministry of Education) and launched by the Minister on 29 September 2015. [1]

Contents

Depending on their areas of operation, institutions have been ranked under 11 different categories – overall, university, colleges, engineering, management, pharmacy, law, medical, architecture, dental and research. [2] The Framework uses several parameters for ranking purposes like resources, research, and stakeholder perception. These parameters have been grouped into five clusters and these clusters were assigned certain weights. These weights depend on the type of institution. About 3500 institutions voluntarily participated in the first round of rankings. [3]

NIRF was allotted a budget of ₹3 crore (US$380,000) [4] for 2021–22.

The rankings have been heavily criticized as an attempt to manipulate students, companies and general public. [5] [6] [7] In spite of these criticisms, the government has done little to modify the methodologies or results of the rankings.

Background

The 2017 rankings were released by MHRD on 3 April 2017. [8] While in its first rankings released in 2016, NIRF had four categories (Universities, Engineering, Management and Pharmacy), in 2017, two more categories namely, Overall and College, were added. Around 3,000 institutions participated in the rankings. [9]

On April 3, 2018, the 2018 NIRF rankings were released with an increased number of participating institutions over the previous year. [10]

The 2019 NIRF ranking was released on April 8, 2019 in 9 categories: Overall, Universities, Engineering, Colleges, Management, Pharmacy, Medical, Architecture, and Law. [11]

For the 2020 rankings, around 3,800 institutions participated in the process, a 20% increase over 2019. [12] The 2020 ranked lists were released by MHRD on June 11, 2020. For the first time, dental institutes were placed in a new category. [13]

Formation

MHRD organized a one-day workshop on 21 August 2014 on evolving methodologies for the ranking of institutions of higher education in India. The meeting resolved to establish a committee for building a national ranking framework. Later it was also decided to appoint representatives of central universities for the proposed committee. Based on these decisions, a core committee consisting of 16 members was constituted on 29 October 2014 with secretary (HE, MHRD, as chairperson and additional secretary (TE), MHRD, as member-secretary. The other members were the vice-chancellors of Delhi University, EFL University, Central University of Gujarat and JNU, the directors of the IIT Kharagpur, IIT Madras, IIM Ahmedabad, IIM Bangalore, NIT Tiruchirappalli, NIT Warangal, IIIT&M Gwalior, IISER Bhopal, SPA Delhi, NAAC, and chairperson of NBA. [14]

The terms of reference of the committee were:

  1. Institutions;
  2. Programmes;
  1. Suggest a mechanism for financing of the Scheme on National Ranking Framework.
  2. Suggest linkages with National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) and National Board of Accreditation (NBA), if any.

The core committee identified a set of measurable parameters to be used as metrics for ranking the institutions. These parameters were grouped into five major headings. The committee suggested the weightages to be assigned to various groups of parameters in the case of institutions of engineering education and left the task of carrying out similar exercises for institutions of other disciplines to other competent agencies. The initial draft of the report was prepared by Surendra Prasad, chairman, National Board of Accreditation and Member of the core committee.

The University Grants Commission constituted an expert committee on 9 October 2015 to develop a framework for the ranking of universities and colleges in India and the framework developed by this expert committee has been incorporated into NIRF. [15] The core committee also suggested a framework for ranking institutions offering management education also. [16] The All India Council for Technical Education developed parameters and metrics for ranking institutions offering pharmacy education [17] and also architecture education. [18]

Recommendations of the core committee

The following are some of the recommendations of the core committee: [14]

  • Category A institutions: These are institutions of national importance set up by Acts of Parliament, State Universities, Deemed-to-be Universities, Private Universities and other autonomous institutions.
  • Category B institutions: These are institutions affiliated to a University and do not enjoy full academic autonomy.

Parameters and their weightages

Engineering, management, pharmacy and architecture institutions

The approved set of parameter groups and the weightages assigned to them in respect of institutions offering programmes in engineering, management, pharmacy and architecture are given in the following table.

ParametersCategory A
institutions		Category B
institutions
Teaching, learning and resources (TLR)0.300.30
Research, professional practice and collaborative performance (RPC)0.300.20
Graduation outcome (GO)0.150.25
Outreach and inclusivity (OI)0.150.15
Perception (PR)0.100.10

Overall and colleges

The approved set of parameter groups and the weightages assigned to them in respect of overall rating and for colleges are given in the following table, for 2018.

ParametersOverall [19] Colleges [20]
Teaching, learning and resources (TLR)0.300.40
Research, productivity, impact and IPR (RPII)0.300.15
Graduation outcome (GO)0.200.25
Outreach and inclusivity (OI)0.100.10
Perception (PR)0.100.10

Latest Ranking - 2023

Overall (Top 10) [21]
RankNameCityState/UT
1 Indian Institute of Technology Madras Chennai Tamil Nadu
2 Indian Institute of Science Bengaluru Karnataka
3 Indian Institute of Technology Delhi New Delhi Delhi
4 Indian Institute of Technology Bombay Mumbai Maharashtra
5 Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur Kanpur Uttar Pradesh
6 All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi New Delhi Delhi
7 Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur Kharagpur West Bengal
8 Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee Roorkee Uttarakhand
9 Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati Guwahati Assam
10 Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi Delhi
Universities (Top 10) [22]
RankNameCityState
1 Indian Institute of Science BengaluruKarnataka
2 Jawaharlal Nehru University New DelhiDelhi
3 Jamia Millia Islamia New DelhiDelhi
4 Jadavpur University KolkataWest Bengal
5 Banaras Hindu University VaranasiUttar Pradesh
6 Manipal Academy of Higher Education-Manipal ManipalKarnataka
7 Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham CoimbatoreTamil Nadu
8 Vellore Institute of Technology VelloreTamil Nadu
9 Aligarh Muslim University AligarhUttar Pradesh
10 University of Hyderabad HyderabadTelangana

Criticism

The list was criticised for being incomplete, incoherent and bordering on the random in 2017. [23] Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi raised objection on 2017 NIRF ranking, accusing it of being based on incomplete data. [24]

In 2021, Professor Anil Kumar Tripathi, director of the Institute of Science, Banaras Hindu University criticised the NIRF University rankings, accusing it to compare institutions with same budget but varying number of students. He said that "IISc no doubt, is the top institution in the country. Banaras Hindu University (BHU), however, is a different kind of educational institution. Both institutions have almost the same budget but the same amount of money caters to a large number of students, teachers and infrastructure at BHU. In comparison to IISc the money available is about five to ten times lesser in our university because of the sheer size". [25]

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