HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal to announce NIRF 2020 ranking
NIRF Rankings 2020, MHRD NIRF India University Ranking List 2020 Live Updates: The Union Minister of Human Resource Development (HRD) Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank begins his first address for the NIRF ranking. Pokhriyal will announce the annual rankings for Indian higher education institutes. AICTE and UGC chairpersons as well as HRD Minister of State also present. The education institutes and universities all over India are ranked across several parameters including teaching, learning and resources, research and professional practices, graduation outcome outreach and inclusivity, and perception.
The number of Indian institutes which registered for the NIRF ranking this year, there has been a rise of 20 per cent of institutes. This year for the first time dental institutes will also be ranked. Earlier, Institutes were ranked in multiple categories including – best overall institute, best university, top engineering institute, top college, best management institute, top pharmacy college, best law school, best architecture college, and top medical college.
The fight for the overall best has been between the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras and Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore for the past couple of years. Last year, IIT-M had overtaken IISc. In the recently released international rankings — Times Higher Education and QS too — IISc Bangalore and IIT-Bombay are the top Indian institutes, respectively.
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Despite the government’s push for study in India and establishing Institutes of Emminence, Indian universities and higher education institutes have declined in their performance in the global ranking index. One of the major reasons behind the decline is cited as a lack of internationalisation. NIRF ranking is a step in this direction.
The number of Indian institutes which registered for the NIRF ranking this year, there has been a rise of 20 per cent of institutes. This year for the first time dental institutes will also be ranked.
The AICTE chairperson, Anil Sahasrabudhe in his address said that unlike QS and THE, the NIRF ranking also considers the contribution made by an institute to the society and the impact generated by the institute and its perception in the society.
This is the first NIRF ranking to be announced under the leadership of HRD Minister. The first-ever rankings were announced by Smriti Irani
In the e-launch of NIRF ranking, UGC chairperson and AICTE chairperson also present with the HRD Minister, Ramesh Pokhriyal as well as Sanjay Dhotre.
The HRd Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal and Minister of State Sanjay Dhotre begin their address through digital platforms. The HRD Ranking or the Indian Ranking as the NIRF rankings are commonly called to be announced in this address. Overall category, university, college and sub-categories of law, engineering, management, pharma, architecture to be released today,
While the rankings are released by the government, the HRD Ministry trakes into consideration the private institutes and universities too. Some of the private universities and colleges did make it to the list of top 25 in previous years too.
Last year's winner IIT Madras and IISc which ranked 2nd in 2019 and first in 2018 and 2017 are in a close race for the top rank in the overall category. This year, IIT-Bombay is also likely to be among the top contender thanks to its top rank in recently released QS ranking.
Along with the union minister of HRD, Minister of State Sanjay Dhotre will also be present. The address will be available through a webinar or digital conference. Students can also refer to indianexpress.com for the latest updates. The same will be available at the official handles of the union minister and HRD ministry.
While there are five key parameters on which institutes are ranked out of 100, the weightage given to each parameter is different. while teaching, learning and resource, research and professional practice get 0.30 weightage, graduation outcomes get 0.20 weightage. For preception, outreach and inclusivity the weightage is 0.10.
While institutes have to register and submit data to NIRF ranking as well as make the same data public through its website. The NIRF also conducts physical audits and checks to ensure that the data provided is authentic. As per rules, if the institute is providing false data it can also be debarred from ranking and face consequences too.
Institutions who fail to post the data submitted to NIRF on their own websites may not be ranked. Thus, if the submitted data is not visible on the Institute’s own website prominently (NIRF will do a limited checking on a random basis), its registration for ranking is likely to be cancelled after an initial notice, says the official website.
The parameters broadly cover “Teaching, Learning and Resources,” “Research and Professional Practices,” “Graduation Outcomes,” “Outreach and Inclusivity,” and “Perception”. The first Indian Ranking India released in 2016 was based on this framework. This year every large institution will be given a common overall rank as well as a discipline-specific rank as applicable.
In 2019, the overall top institute IIT-Madras had scored 83.88 followed by IISc at 82.28. In 2018, IISc topper with 82.16 followed by IIT-Madras at 81.39. In 2017, IISc topped with 83.28 followed by IIT-Madras at 73.97.
One of the key things to watch out for in this year's ranking is the IIT versus IISc competition. Last year, in the overall category, IIT-Madras had taken the lead over the IISc which had topper a year before. The two institutes have been giving neck to neck performances for the last couple of years. IIT-Bombay is also one of the key players in the race. Internationally, IIsc gets the top Indian institute rank more often but IIT-Bombay has got the top ranking in QS this year. while in THE and RUR rankings announced this year, IISc had taken lead among Indian institutes
While every year, the ranking is released in April, however, it got delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic. It will also be an e-launched this year as the ranking will be announced through the Twitter account of the HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank. Last year, the rankings were announced by the President of India, Ram Nath Kovind.
Seven IITs in Mumbai, Delhi, Kanpur, Guwahati, Madras, Roorkee, and Kharagpur will not participate in the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings this year. Citing a lack of 'transparency' in the ranking parameters. This was decided after not a single Indian institution featured in the top 300 of World University Rankings. Read full story here
While IITs, IISc have been dominating the NIRF Ranking 2020, these have not been able to make a mark in the global ranking index such as THE and QS ranking. Rather for this year's ranking, Indian institutes have seen a heavy decline in their performance as compared to last year. While none of the Indian institutes could make it to top 100 of QS ranking, in THE too, the performance has been worse than last year's.
The National Institute Ranking Framework (NIRF) is an annual ranking announced by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD). This ranking accesses the education institutes across India and gives them ranking. The aim is to make institutes compete with each other and become better. Further, foreign students also opt for colleges based on rankings and this might improve the 'Study in India' programme.