The India Rankings 2023 has been released, which serves as a valuable tool for students in selecting universities. The selection of universities is based on their relative standing in various categories and subject domain. The multi-dimensional parameters of India Rankings have successfully captured the quality and excellence of HEIs in the country.
Indian Institute of Technology Madras retains its 1st position in Overall Category for fifth consecutive year and in engineering for eighth consecutive year. Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru tops the Universities Category for eighth consecutive years. It stood first in Research Institutions Category for the third consecutive year.
IIM Ahmedabad tops in Management subject retaining its first position for fourth consecutive year. It was ranked amongst the top two in management subject of the India Rankings from 2016 to 2019.
All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi occupies the top slot in medical for the sixth consecutive year. Moreover, AIIMS is ranked at 6th position in Overall category thereby improving from its 9th position in 2022.
National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, Hyderabad tops the ranking in pharmacy for first time pushing Jamia Hamdard to the second slot.
Miranda House retains the 1st position amongst Colleges for the seventh consecutive year. IIT Roorkee stands at 1st position in Architecture subject for the third consecutive year.
National Law School of India University, Bengaluru retains its first position in Law for the sixth consecutive year. Colleges in Delhi maintained their dominance in ranking of colleges with five colleges out of first 10 colleges from Delhi.
Dr. Rajkumar Ranjan Singh, Minister of State for Education and External Affairs released the India Rankings 2023. It implements the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) drafted for this purpose by the Ministry of Education in 2015.
Dr. Ranjan on this occasion, stated that ranking and accreditations are vital for evaluating the quality of educational programs offered by higher education institutions in colleges and universities. He said that the Ministry of Education took the commendable steps of drafting National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) in 2015, which defines multi-dimensional parameters to capture quality and excellence of HEIs in India across various categories and subject domains and rank them based on their cumulative score on these parameters.
India Rankings help universities in identifying areas for improvement in teaching, research, resources and infrastructure. There has been an increase in the number of institutions who have applied for ranking in different categories and subject domains. However, the minister stressed upon the requirement of working collectively to bring more and more institutions under the ambit of India Rankings as well as accreditation.
This is the eighth consecutive edition of India Rankings of HEIs in India. During the maiden year of India Rankings 2016, rankings were announced for universities as well as for three domain-specific rankings, namely engineering, management and pharmacy institutions. Over the period of eight years, four new categories and five new subject domains have been added to bring the total tally to five categories namely- Overall, University, Colleges, Research Institutions & Innovation and 8 subject domains, namely Engineering, Management, Pharmacy, Architecture & Planning, Medical, Law, Dental and Agriculture and Allied Sectors.
A noticeable increase in institutional participation this year indicates its recognition amongst institutions of higher education in India as a fair and transparent ranking exercise. 100 institutions are being ranked in Overall Universities, Colleges and Engineering since inception of India Rankings in 2016. Moreover, the number of institutions ranked in Management and Pharmacy have increased from 75 to 100 each from 2022 onwards.