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Dimapur | September 9
The ranking of Nagaland University (NU), the sole central university of the State, has slipped further, as per the latest National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) released on September 9.
The NIRF instituted ‘India Rankings 2021’ was released by Union Education Minister, Dharmendra Pradhan on Thursday in New Delhi.
Among the universities in India, NU was ranked in the 151-200 band, slipping from the 101-150 band it managed in both 2020 and 2019. NU’s best performance was in 2018 when it was among the Top-100 universities in India after it was slotted at 95th position.
Accordingly, for three consecutive years thereafter, it could not improve on its performance, and indicated to be slipping further.
Meanwhile, in the engineering section, while almost all institutions under the National Institute of Technology (NIT) featured in top-200 band, NIT Nagaland failed to make even to the 300 list. NIT Nagaland’s best performance so far has been in 2017 when it was ranked in 151-200 in engineering category.
No colleges from Nagaland were in the list. As per the list on the NIRF website, only four colleges from the State – Fazl Ali College Mokokchung; SD Jain Girls’ College, Dimapur; St Xavier’s College, Peren; and Tetso College, Dimapur – participated in the ranking.
All-India and NE Status
According to a press release from the Ministry of Education, a total of 4,030 unique institutions offered themselves for ranking under overall, category-specific and domain-specific this year.
Category-wise, there were 1657 in Overall; 1143 in Engineering; 659 in Management; 351 in Pharmacy, 120 in Law; 111 in Medical; 78 in Architecture and 1802 in General Degree Colleges, it said.
As per the release, the Indian Institute of Technology Madras retained 1st Position in Overall Category as well as in Engineering for the third consecutive year while the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru topped the University as well as Research Institution category, introduced for the first time in 2021.
IIM Ahmedabad topped in Management subject and All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi occupied the top slot in Medical for the fourth consecutive year.
Jamia Hamdard tops the list in Pharmacy subject for the third consecutive year while Miranda College retained 1st position amongst colleges for the fifth consecutive year. Colleges in Delhi dominated ranking of colleges, with five colleges out of first 10 colleges from Delhi.
IIT Roorkee took the top slot for the first time in Architecture subject displacing IIT Kharagpur, while the National Law School of India University, Bangalore retained its first position in Law for the fourth consecutive year.
Manipal College of Dental Sciences, Manipal, secured 1st position in Dental category.
Among the institutions from the North East, the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati was ranked best with 8th in Overall category and 7th in engineering. Gauhati University followed next with 67th Overall and 45th in University.
Another institution from Assam - Tezpur University was ranked 73rd Overall and 46th among universities.
The North Eastern Hill University (NEHU) at 90 and NIT Silchar at 93 positions completed the institutions from NE in top-100 Overall. The former was 59th in university category while the latter was 48th in engineering.
Apart from Silchar, NIT Meghalaya (59) and NIT Agartala (92) made it to the top-100 in the engineering list.
What is NIRF?
The NIRF was launched and approved by the Ministry of Education (then Ministry of Human Resource Development) and launched on September 29, 2015 and the first ranking was released in 2016, stated information on its website.
It outlines a methodology to rank institutions across the country and uses five broad parameters: Teaching, Learning & Resources; Research and Professional Practice; Graduation Outcomes; Outreach and Inclusivity; and Perception.
The institutions are ranked in 4 four categories - Overall, University, College and Research Institutions and 7 subjects - Engineering, Management, Pharmacy, Architecture, Medical, Law and Dental in 2021.
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