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Some universities in India, brief profile

Universities in India, rank-wise, 2017;
From: “India Today”, May 22,2017

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Some universities in India, brief profile

1997-2017, universities in India, rank-wise

Universities in India, rank-wise, 1997-2017;
From: “India Today”

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Universities in India, rank-wise, 1997-2017

2016: Ministry of Human Resource Development

The Times of India, Apr 05 2016

April 4, 2017: The Times of India

India's best universities in 2016, ranking by Ministry of Human Resource Development; Graphic courtesy: The Times of India, Apr 05 2016

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Universities in India, ranking 2016, state-wise, Source-Ministry of Human Resource and Development; Graphic courtesy: The Times of India, April 5, 2016

South Indian institutes dominate govt's higher education rankings

TOP TEN UNIVERSITIES

1. Indian Institute of Science Bangalore

2. Indian Institute of Technology Madras

3. Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

4. Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur

5. Indian Institute of Technology Delhi

6. Jawaharlal Nehru University

7. Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

8. Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati

9. Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee

10. Banaras Hindu University

HIGHLIGHTS

Indian Institute of Science (IIS) has again bagged the top position in the latest NIRF ranking.

According to the MHRD data, IIS has scored much better than the IIT (Madras) and IIT (Bombay).

Delhi's JNU has claimed 6th position in the list

Higher education institutes from south India have topped streams across engineering, management, pharmacy and universities, the first such ranking by the ministry of human resource development has revealed. Also, government-run institutions dominate the list across streams despite the fact that private institutions showed greater enthusiasm in participating in the ranking process.

Four universities -Jawaharlal Nehru University , University of Hyderabad, Visva Bharati and Aligarh Muslim University -in the news for the last few months have all made it to the list of Top 25 universities. JNU is at three, UH at four, AMU at 10 and Visva Bharati at 11. Strangely , Panjab University , Chandigarh that a few years ago was among the top 2% universities in the world and best in India is ranked 12th. i i National Institutional Ranking Framework designed by a 16-member core team and involving various agencies like National Board of Accreditation, All India Council for Technical Education, University Grants Commission and others was done after data from 1,438 engineering colleges, 609 management institutions, 454 pharmacy colleges and 233 universities was unveiled by HRD minister Smriti Irani.

IIT, Madras tops the list of engineering colleges, IIM, Bangalore is the best among management insti tutes, Manipal College of Pharmaceutical Sciences is the number one pharmacy institute and Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore is the top ranked university .

In engineering category , top 11slots have been taken by IITs, including new ones like Patna, Ropar, Gandhinagar, and Hyderabad. Only two fully private engineering colleges -BIT Ranchi (rank 17) and Vellore Institute of Technology (rank 13) are in the list of 25. Government-run or funded engineering colleges rule the ranking.

In the management category , IIMs dominate the ran kings from one to six. IIM, Ahmedabad is at second rank.Again, as in the case of IITs, new IIMs like the one in Udaipur have made it to a higher rank than the IIMs which are a little older.

Private institutions have a more robust presence in the management category .Thiagrajar School of Management, Madurai (rank 15), SP Jain Institute of Management, Mumbai (rank 16), Vellore Institute of Technology (rank 17), Fore School of Management (rank 23) and Lal Bahadur Shastri Institute of Management, Delhi (rank 24) and Birla Institute of Technology (rank 25) appear in the list.

Among universities, Institute of Chemical Technology established in 1933 by the University of Mumbai and made a deemed university in 2008 is second followed by JNU, HU and Tezpur University . Delhi University is at number six, Banaras Hindu University at seven.Private universities like BITS, Pilani (rank 9), Bharatihar University (rank 14), Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore (rank 19) and Guru Jambeshwar University of Science & Technology, Hissar is ranked 24.

Dyal Singh, ARSD in top 10 despite poor peer perception

Satabhisa Bhaumik, How Dyal Singh, ARSD made it to HRD ministry's top 10 , April 5, 2017: The Times of India

Lesser-known institutions like Dyal Singh and Atma Ram Sanatan Dharma stood out in the HRD ministry's ranking of `top 10' colleges. They have fared exceptionally well in teaching, learning and resources (TLR) index despite a below average peer or public perception score.

For instance, Dyal Singh College, which had a peer perception score of 17%, has earned the highest TLR at 87%.The average perception score of the 10 colleges is 36.05%. Miranda House, the top-most college according to the ministry ranking, has been awarded a TLR of 75%. On the fifth position, ARSD has been awarded a TLR of 74% despite a perception score of 0.21%.

The staff and the administrations of these institutions deem the rankings justified.According to the principals of Dyal Singh and ARSD colleges, their research-oriented curriculum motivates the students of arts and sciences to apply for higher studies.

“We have state-of-the-art infrastructure and adopted a research and innovation-orien ted study mechanism, which motivates undergraduates to take up further studies and research in their respective field,“ said Gyantosh K Jha, principal, ARSD College.

Dyal Singh College principal Inderjeet Singh Bakshi gives credit to the faculty for giving more importance to research, which helped them secure the highest percentage of TLR. He highlighted that the high cut-off percentage of the college has ensured that the college gets the best quality of students from across the country . Both the colleges have been given grants by Delhi University to carry out research programmes.

“ARSD has received nearly Rs 2 crore under the `STAR innovation research project' funded by Delhi University .The college also runs a tech nology-business incubator on its campus,“ said Rajeev Singh, a chemistry teacher at ARSD, which has secured the fifth rank in the top-10 list.“More than 200 students have benefited from the university grants and each project costs anywhere between Rs 10 and Rs 40 lakh.“

Science faculty members from both the colleges said nearly 50% of their undergraduate class choose to undertake research work in the future or appear in competitive exams.What's more, the two colleges have secured a high score of `outreach and inclusivity' (OI).The faculty of ARSD proudly defends the score since it is the only college to host an annual Northeast cultural festival--Rainbow Fest.

How the colleges, universities were ranked

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How the colleges and universities were ranked; The Times of India, April 5, 2017

2017

Some universities in India, brief profile;
From: “India Today” 26/6/2017

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Some universities in India, brief profile

Poor performers

Manash Gohain, AMU, Allahabad univ among `non-performers', March 10, 2017: The Times of India

11 Varsities Face Audit For Academic, Research Quality

The government suspects that some of the country's most prestigious universities are underperforming and has, hence, asked the University Grants Commission (UGC) to audit them for academic and research quality .

The Union ministry of HRD has identified a number of “nonperforming“ centrally funded institutions, and of these, 11will undergo the audit, according to a senior ministry official.

Aligarh Muslim University , Allahabad University , Pondicherry University and Central University of Jammu are among the 11 universities to undergoaudit. The other seven varsities are Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University , Central University of Jharkhand, Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University at Lucknow, Central University of Rajasthan, Dr Hari Singh Gour University at Sagar, Tripura University and Mahatma Gandhi Antarashtriya Hindi Vishwavidyalaya.

“The list has been forwarded and UGC has been asked to conduct the audit as soon as possible.No specific time frame has been set. The UGC will first set the criteria for the audit and then the process will commence. The broad mandate of the audit is to assess academic quality , research activities and research output,“ said the official.

A three-member team has been constituted to monitor the audit. According to UGC sources, the audit will include output and quality of research, students' results, and placement records wherever applicable.

The team is also working on other criteria and is likely to apprise the ministry about them.

“There is an urgent need to look at the universities and their performance. Academic and research quality at the universities reflect the quality of education in the country . There will be various other factors, such as frequency of review of courses, new courses, and how relevant current campus research is, which will be taken in to account,“ said a senior UGC official. “The idea is to find out if the return on investment is being justified and whether students are getting the kind of education for which they come to these universities,“he added.

Sources said there are likely to be more “non-performing universities“ and the audit could be extended once they were identified.“The audit is likely to start by the end of March, or in April 2017 and will end depending on how much time will be needed,“ he said.

2019

QS World University rankings

June 11, 2018: The Times of India

Indian universities in QS ranking- 2019
From: June 11, 2018: The Times of India

Three Indian universities feature in the top 200 universities of the QS World University rankings 2019 -- Indian Insitiute of Technology (IIT), Bombay, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore and IIT Delhi. While IIT Delhi has retained the same ranking as last year, IIT Bombay which ranks 162 in 2019 has climbed up 17 notches. IISc too has moved up 20 to be ranked 170 in 2019. In all, the number of Indian universities in the top 1,000 increased from 20 to 24. Here’s a look at Indian universities that feature among the top 500 in 2019 as compared to 2018 and the world's best universities.

2020

India’s best

Manash Gohain, June 12, 2020: The Times of India

Top Universities, Engineering college, colleges in India, 2020
From: Manash Gohain, June 12, 2020: The Times of India

IIT-Madras retained its top position in the overall category among educational institutions in India with IISc Bangalore and IITDelhi bagging the second and third spots in the National Institutional Ranking Framework 2020 announced by the HRD ministry on Thursday. The top three universities in the annual rankings are IISc Bangalore, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and Banaras Hindu University.

Delhi University’s Miranda House continues to top the list in the overall category of colleges for the fourth consecutive year ever since the category was introduced in 2017. In all, 12 DU colleges feature in top 20 with Lady Shri Ram (LSR) College occupying the second slot. Seven IITs are among the top 10 higher education institutions in the country.

In the medical category, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi, remains on top. IIM-Ahmedabad has been ranked as the top B-School in the country, followed by IIM Bangalore and Calcutta.

In the overall category, the top six institutions retained their positions while IIT-Guwahati moved up by two positions to 7th rank this year.

It is for the 5th consecutive time that IIT-Madras maintained its top position in the engineering category ever since the rankings were introduced. The institutions are ranked on the basis of five parameters — teaching, learning and resources; research and professional practice; graduation outcomes; outreach and inclusivity; and peer perception.

Delhi-based colleges

Mohammad Ibrar & Shradha Chettri, June 12, 2020: The Times of India

The national rank of Delhi-based colleges in 2020
From: Mohammad Ibrar & Shradha Chettri, June 12, 2020: The Times of India

Delhi-based institutes fared well in the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) rankings-2020 which was released on Thursday. While Delhi University and Jamia Millia Islamia improved their overall rankings, DU’s Miranda House college was adjudged the best college for the fourth time in a row. Lady Shri Ram College grabbed the second spot. As many as 12 DU colleges are in the list of top 20 best colleges.

Delhi has seven of its institutes in the top 200 of the engineering category and seven institutes in the top 75 in the management category. Three local institutes are in the top 20 among law institutes with NLU-D at the second position and six in the top 40 medical category with AIIMS at the top. Jamia Hamdard got the top rank among pharmacy colleges and Maulana Azad Institute of Dental Sciences in the dental institute category.

Jamia is now at the 10th position in the universities category, improving its position from the 12th rank. In ‘overall category,’ it has been placed at 16th position. Vice-chancellor Najma Akhtar said: “The achievement is all the more significant because of the challenging time the university has faced recently and also in the light of increased competition in the ranking.”

“It was possible because of the relevant and focused research of highest quality and teaching by our dedicated and devoted faculty members,” Akhtar added.

JNU grabbed the second position, yet again. “We consistently maintained this rank during the last four years. Credit goes to all the faculty, staff and students who worked hard to achieve this,” JNU VC M Jagadesh Kumar said in a statement.

Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi retained its third position in the overall rankings. In the engineering category, it secured the second position.

V Ramgopal Rao, director, IIT Delhi, said, “IIT Delhi will always strive to do better. We also want to see our technologies help solve problems in the society and we wish to see our students become socially conscious citizens.”

Delhi has six of its universities in the top 100 rankings. As many as 29 colleges from Delhi are in the top 100 list with four DU colleges among the top five. Shri Ram College of Commerce, however, saw a dip in its ranking from 7th position to 12th. “A commerce college will never be able to compete with a science college on parameters like expenditure on labs and journal articles,” says Simrit Kaur, SRCC principal.

See also

South Asian universities: global ranking

Indian universities: global ranking

Indian universities: national ranking

Indian universities: national ranking, 2017

Indian universities: national ranking, 2018

Indian universities: national ranking, 2019

Indian universities: issues and trends

Indian students in international universities