While the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras retained its position among the country’s top-ranked educational institutions in the ‘overall’ category for the fifth time, Delhi University (DU) and other colleges moved up and down the charts a bit, according to a report. I have been told. The eighth edition of the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) report, released on Monday, highlighted paucity of teaching faculty with doctoral degrees, skewed gender ratio in engineering institutions and quality research being limited to only top 100 institutions.
Among engineering institutes, IIT Delhi replaced IIT Bombay for the third position in the ‘overall’ category this year. As per the report released by the union, some of the top IITs including IIT Bombay, IIT Kanpur, IIT Kharagpur, IIT Roorkee and IIT Guwahati again this year remained in the list of top 10 institutes in the ‘overall’ category. Rajkumar Ranjan Singh, Minister of State for Education and External Affairs.
In the universities category, the top four remained the same as last year while Banaras Hindu University (BHU) climbed into the top five. Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, topped the list followed by Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), Jamia Millia Islamia and Jadavpur University.
Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) also moved up from 11th position last year to ninth position to feature in the top 10 universities.
Among colleges, Miranda House of Delhi University (DU) topped the list for the seventh time in a row. DU’s Lady Shri Ram (LSR) College moved up to the ninth position from being in the top five last year.
Similarly, Loyola College, Chennai, which featured in the top five for the last few years, dropped to the seventh position. St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata moved up from eighth position last year to fifth position.
Indian Institute of Management (IIM)-Ahmedabad has been ranked the top management college in the country even as three engineering colleges including IIT-Delhi, IIT-Bombay and National Institute of Industrial Engineering, Mumbai have made it to the top. List of 10 B-Schools.
All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) and Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) are ranked sixth and 10th in the ‘overall’ category.
The institutes were ranked under 13 categories- Overall, University, College, Engineering, Management, Pharmacy, Law, Medicine, Architecture, Dentistry, Research, Agriculture and Innovation. They were assessed on five broad general parameters including teaching, learning and resources, research and professional practice, graduation outcomes, outreach and inclusivity and perception. The category of agriculture and allied sector was included in NIRF for the first time this year.
As many as 8,686 applications were received for the ranking this year as compared to 7,254 in 2022. The number of categories increased from four in 2016 to 13 in 2023.
The report said that given the increase in the number of engineering institutes across the country in the last decade, both government and private, there are challenges in the employability of the trained faculty and its students.
According to the findings, out of a total of 1,61,195 faculty members in engineering colleges, only 44.51% are PhD degree holders, while a major chunk, 55.49%, are master’s degree holders. Also, those with doctoral qualifications are concentrated in only the top 100 institutions, which it called a “serious handicap”.
“It was observed that faculty with doctoral qualification is concentrated in the top 100 institutions, remaining institutions have less faculty with doctoral degree. This is a serious handicap because the mentoring received during doctoral training can play an important role in preparing faculty for teaching careers in higher education.
The data shows that faculty with PhD in the top 100 institutes varied from a minimum of 61.06% in the case of colleges to a maximum of 91.60% in the case of management institutes. Faculty with PhD in the remaining institutions varied from a minimum of 33.27% in case of pharmacy institutes to a maximum of 64.29% in case of universities.
Another important fact was the skewed Faculty-Student Ratio (FSR), as shown in the report. It added, “There are 421 institutes (33.98%) that qualify the FSR of 20 students per faculty prescribed by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), while the remaining 818 institutes are trying to achieve the norms prescribed by AICTE.” Have been.”
Further, 62.48% research publications come from the top 100 institutions in the ‘Overall’ category, with the remaining 1,094 participating and eligible institutions contributing the remaining 37.52% research publications.
The report also showed that the Indian share in the overall world publications is around 4.81%. In Management discipline, India’s publication share is 5.32%.
The NIRF ranking was launched by the Narendra Modi-led government in 2016, which is the only university ranking system in India.