SHILLONG, June 5: The North-Eastern Hill University continues its poor show in the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) India Rankings 2023, dropping to the 80th rank among universities in India. The central varsity slipped 14 places from the 66th rank it secured in 2022.
NEHU has witnessed a steady decline in the NIRF rankings after securing its best-ever rank of 15th among all universities in 2016, the first time the rankings were published.
Assam’s Tezpur University (66th) secured the best rank among all universities in the Northeast followed by Mizoram University (76th). Gauhati University (88th) is the only other varsity from the Northeast to feature in the top 100 list.
Surprisingly, Pachhunga University College, Mizoram is the only college from the Northeast to feature in the list of top 100 colleges of the country.
Indian Institute of Management Shillong was ranked 26th among management institutes in the country.
On Monday, the Union Education Ministry announced NIRF India Rankings 2023 for colleges and other higher educational institutions with IIT Madras once again becoming the number one educational institution of the country, and Delhi University’s Miranda House the number one among all the colleges.
Delhi University’s Hindu College is second in the list of colleges.
In a feat without precedence in Indian Higher Education, IIT Madras held on its No. 1 ranking in the ‘Overall’ category for the Fifth Consecutive Year and in ‘Engineering’ Category for the Eighth Consecutive Year, right from the first edition of the Rankings in 2016.
As per the NIRF, overall ranking of Indian Institute of Technology Madras is number one. Indian Institute of Science Bengaluru is in 2nd place, IIT Delhi is at the third spot, IIT Bombay 4, IIT Kanpur 5, AIIMS Delhi 6, IIT Kharagpur 7, IIT Roorkee8, IIT Guwahati 9 and Jawaharlal Nehru University is at number 10.
On the other hand, JNU has performed much better in the University rankings. As per the NIRF University ranking, the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru is number one among all universities in the country.
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi is at 2nd place; another achiever is Jamia Millia Islamia, the University has secured 3rd place; Jadavpur University, Kolkata at 4; Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi 5; Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal; Manipal 6; Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore 7; Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore 8; Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh 9 and University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad on 10th place.
Among the medical colleges, AIIMS, Delhi bagged the top spot, followed by PGIMER Chandigarh and Christian Medical College, Vellore.
A total number of 5,543 unique institutions responded and offered themselves for ranking under “Overall”, category-specific or domain-specific rankings. In all, 8,686 applications for ranking were made by these 5,543 unique applicant institutions under various categories or subject domains. (With agency inputs)
