NIRF Ranking 2022: Here's how best University/Institute gets graded

NIRF Ranking 2022: Here's how best University/Institute gets graded

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New Delhi: Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan will unveil the National Institutional Ranking Framework, NIRF ranking 2022 on Friday i.e. July 15 at 11 am. The Education Ministry took to Twitter to announce the date and time of the release of India Rankings 2022 under NIRF. "On 15th July 2022, Hon’ble Education , Shri @dpradhanbjp will release #IndiaRankings2022 under #NIRF, virtually. The annual exercise outlines a methodology to rank Higher Education Institutions (HEI’s) across India in various categories & subject domains," stated the tweet.

What is NIRF Ranking?

The NIRF Ranking follows a methodology to rank institutions across the nation. The methodology draws from the universal recommendations and broad understanding arrived at by a Core Committee set up by MHRD, to identify the broad parameters for ranking various universities and institutions. The parameters that lie under NIRF Ranking broadly cover the sectors including Teaching, Learning and Resources, Research and Professional Practices, Graduation Outcomes, Outreach and Inclusivity and Perception.

The National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) was approved by the MHRD and launched by the Honourable Minister of Human Resource Development on September 29, 2015.

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Salient Features of NIRF Ranking

• Methodology of NIRF Ranking is based on making a set of metrics for ranking numerous academic institutions, based on the parameters approved by the core committee.
• The parameters are set into five broad sections and have been further elaborated into fitting sub-heads. Each broad head has an overall weight assigned to it. Within each head, the various sub-heads also have an appropriate weight distribution.
• In this ranking system, an attempt is made to identify the relevant data needed to suitably measure the performance score under each sub-head. The emphasis here is on identifying data that the institution can easily provide or is easy to obtain from third-party sources and easily verifiable, where verification is needed. This is important in the interest of transparency.
• A suitable metric is then proposed based on this data, which computes a score under each sub-head. The sub-head scores are then added to obtain scores for each individual head. The overall score is computed based on the weights allotted to each head. The overall score can take a maximum value of 100.
• The institutions can then be rank-ordered based on their scores.

Eligibility Criteria of NIRF

• All candidate institutions, independent of their discipline or nature will be given a common overall rank of 1 if they satisfy one of the following criteria-

1. They have a total of at least 1000 enrolled students OR
2. The institution is a centrally funded institution/university of the Government of India.

• Institutions will also be given a discipline-specific rank as relevant.
• Highly focussed institutions with a single main discipline including Engineering, Medical, Law, Management, Pharmacy, or UG degree colleges in Arts, Science and Commerce, among others, with less than 1000 enrolled students (as calculated on the basis of approved intake) will be given only a discipline-specific rank.
• Schools or Departments of Universities or Institutions including Arts, Architecture, Engineering, Health and Life Sciences, Humanities and Social Sciences, Law Faculty, Medical School, Management Departments, Pharmacy, etc, will have to register separately and provide additional data (in the same common format) pertaining to the respective School or Department if they desire to be included in the discipline-specific ranking list. All institutions should seriously consider this option if they wish to position their important Faculties/Schools at the national level.
• Undergraduate Teaching institutions (including degree colleges affiliated to a university) are also invited to participate. Some of them may have a valid apprehension that they may not score well in research-related parameters on a common ranking list, but they can still score high on many other parameters like Graduation Outcomes and Perception. In any case, they would receive a fair comparison in the separate rankings for colleges that will also be published this time, and in which the parameter weightages will be suitably modified.
• Discipline-specific ranks will be announced only in those disciplines where a significant number of institutions offer themselves for ranking, and the List includes some of the prominent institutions in that discipline, with an acceptable ranking score. The final decision on the ranking of a discipline will therefore be decided by NIRF after analysing the data.
• Open Universities and Affiliating Universities (whether State or Centre approved/funded) will not normally be registered for ranking. However, if these universities have a teaching or research campus of their own, they are welcome to participate with data pertaining only to their physical campuses. Data pertaining to their function as open or affiliating universities cannot be included in the submitted data
• Rankings will be considered only for those institutions that have graduated at least three batches of students in some programs. If no program run by the institution satisfies this requirement, the concerned institution will not be able to register for ranking.

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While score computations for the parameters are similar for both kinds of rankings (i.e., common or discipline-specific) on most counts, the weights are somewhat different on a few parameters, to take into account discipline-specific issues. Percentile calculations are done separately for the two sets of rankings.

In 2021, Dharmendra Pradhan released the NIRF Ranking on September 9 listing the top institutes and universities in India. Last year, IIT Madras topped the 'Overall' NIRF Rankings and the second spot was taken by IISc Bengaluru. 

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