Indian universities: national ranking
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2016: Ministry of Human Resource Development
The Times of India, Apr 05 2016
South Indian institutes dominate govt's higher education rankings
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.
