NIRF Ranking

NIRF Rankings 2024: The National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) will announce the NIRF India Rankings 2024 on August 12. Once released, the complete list, category-wise, will be uploaded on the official website - nirfindia.org

Last year NIRF ranking was released on June 5, 2023 by Education Minister Shri Dharmendra Pradhan. Every year the NIRF rankings surprise, in management category with many top IIMs either being displaced by their peers or other B-schools, while many newcomers join the ranking positions. For example, IIM Kozhikode overtook IIM Calcutta to reach the No. 3 position; IIT Delhi lost its No. 4 position and slipped to No. 5 position.

Last year, the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (IIT M) continued its dominance as the best higher education institute in the country, securing the top spot for the fifth consecutive year. IIT Madras has achieved the distinction of being the top engineering institute for the eighth consecutive year and has been recognized as the second best research institute in the country. IIT Madras missed the top spot in the research category by just 2.2 points, which was claimed by the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bengaluru.

In the overall category, the third to tenth positions in the 'Overall' category of 2023 were secured by IIT Delhi, IIT Bombay, IIT Kanpur, AIIMS Delhi, IIT Kharagpur, IIT Roorkee, IIT Guwahati and Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU).Like the engineering category, the medical category too has had repeat winners. All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Delhi once again topped the list of medical colleges last year. After AIIMS Delhi, Chandigarh's Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Christian Medical College and Bangalore's National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences (NIMHANS) also retained their second, third and fourth positions respectively.

NIRF 2023 ranking was released by Minister of State for Education Rajkumar Ranjan Singh. The 2023 ranking evaluated 5,543 higher education institutions across 13 categories – 'holistic', universities, medicine, engineering, management, law, architecture, colleges, research institutions, pharmacy, dentistry, agriculture and allied sectors and innovation. The agriculture category was launched last year. At present no new category has been announced this year.

NIRF Ranking: An Overview

The National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF), approved by the former Ministry of Human Resource Development, was officially launched by the Minister of Human Resource Development on September 29, 2015. This NIRF framework provides a systematic approach to ranking educational institutions across the country.

This methodology is based on a comprehensive understanding of the overall recommendations made by a core committee constituted by MHRD to identify broad parameters for ranking various universities and institutions in various academic fields. These parameters broadly cover "teaching, learning and resources," "research and professional practice," "graduate outcomes," "outreach and inclusivity," and "perception."

NIRF ranking has increased the ranking areas over the years and the Ministry of Education has also brought some important changes in some parameters. Many institutions ranked in NIRF can obtain a general overall rank as well as applicable discipline specific ranks.