The Minister of State for Education and External Affairs Rajkumar Ranjan Singh has announced the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) Rankings 2023 today (June 5) at 11 am. The list will be made available on the official website at nirfindia.org.
The Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT-Madras) has grabbed the number one position under the overall category and also secured top position amongst the all engineering colleges in the country.
Last year there were only four categories: Overall, Colleges, Universities, and Research Institutions, and seven subject domains: Engineering, Management, Pharmacy, Law, Medical, Architecture, and Dental.
However, this year, NIRF has added one new discipline – Agriculture and Allied Sectors. Additionally, the architecture discipline has been renamed as ‘Architecture and Planning’.
The NIRF Ranking 2023 is calculated on these Parameters for Overall category.
Teaching, Learning & Resources (TLR)
Student Strength including Doctoral Students (SS)
Faculty-student ratio with emphasis on permanent faculty (FSR)
Combined metric for Faculty with PhD (or equivalent) and Experience (FQE)
Financial Resources and their Utilisation (FRU)
Research and Professional Practice (RP)
Combined metric for Publications (PU)
Combined metric for Quality of Publications (QP)
IPR and Patents: Published and Granted (IPR)
Footprint of Projects and Professional Practice (FPPP)
Graduation Outcomes (GO)
Metric for University Examinations (GUE)
Metric for Number of Ph.D. Students Graduated (GPHD)
Outreach and Inclusivity (OI)
Percentage of Students from Other States/Countries (Region Diversity RD)
Percentage of Women (Women Diversity WD)
Economically and Socially Challenged Students (ESCS)
Facilities for Physically Challenged Students (PCS)
Peer Perception
Academic Peers and Employers (PR)
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