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Inaugural Universities Ranking by HRD ministry show southern states in the lead
The first ever official University Rankings were released by the Ministry of HRD on Monday. The rankings were done by National Board of Accreditation (NBA) being an autonomous and independent body. Henceforth, this will be an annual exercise.
The first government-backed rankings for higher education launched by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD) were out on Monday. Overall, educational institutions from the southern states aced the results.
The engineering, management, university and pharmacy categories were topped by IIT Madras, IIM Bangalore, IISc Bangalore and Manipal College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Manipal, respectively.
Institutions such as Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), Hyderabad Central University (HCU), Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) and Visva-Bharati, which have been in the eye of the storm recently, have also fared well. They figure in the top 20 universities of the country.
While JNU and HCU were judged the third and fourth best universities, better than Delhi University, which stood at rank 6, AMU and Visva-Bharati were ranked 10th and 11th, respectively. Jamia Millia Islamia was ranked 83 out of 100 universities
Though the HCU administration has been allegedly accused of discriminating against students from backward castes, the university was ironically ranked the best in the country in terms of ‘outreach and inclusivity’, which includes parameters such as gender and geographical diversity in student community, facilities for the differently-abled and percentage of students from socially/economically backward communities.
The IITs — both old and new —lead the tables for engineering, occupying the first 11 positions. Predictably, the first five IITs, established during 1950s and early 1960s, took the first five positions, led by IIT Madras with a weighted score of 89.42, followed by IIT Bombay, IIT Kharagpur, IIT Delhi and IIT Kanpur with weighted score of 87.67, 83.91, 82.03 and 81.07, respectively. Similarly, the IIMs occupied the top positions among management institutions. The topranks were occupied by IIM Bangalore at first rank closely followed by IIM Ahmedabad, IIM Calcutta and IIM Lucknow. International Management Institute, New Delhi, at rank 7 is the only private institution in the top 10 management institutes.
The ‘India Rankings 2016’ were put together with the participation of 3,500 private and public institutions, which were ranked by National Bureau of Accreditation (NBA) based on five criteria — teaching and learning resources, graduation outcome, perception, outreach and inclusivity and research productivity. All institutions were judged based on self-disclosure of information. The ranking was to be done by an independent and autonomous body, accordingly, the National Board of Accreditation (NBA) was assigned the task of doing the ranking exercise.
Hopefully, the rankings are a step towards bringing the Indian institutes on a global platform.
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