The Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan will release the National Institute of Ranking Framework (NIRF) ranking 2021 on September 9. The event is scheduled to be held at 12:30 pm in the afternoon and will be a webcast on the official website of the ranking platform i.e. nirfindia.org. The rankings will have separate lists for top colleges, best medical schools, top 25 universities, best MBA institutes, and top engineering colleges.
The number of Indian institutes registered for the NIRF ranking 2020 had increased by 20 per cent as compared to 2019. In 2020, a total of 3,800 institutes had participated in NIRF Rankings. The institutes are given scores based on – teaching, learning and resources (TLR), research and professional practice (RP), graduation outcomes (GO), outreach and inclusivity (OI), peer perception.
IIT Madras was placed as the best institute in the Overall category and Engineering category in NIRF Rankings 2020, while in the Universities category, IISc Bangalore was ranked one followed by Jawaharlal Nehru University at second place.
Maulana Azad Institute of Dental Sciences was the best Dental college, AIIMS Delhi was the best medical college, NLSIU Bengaluru was the best law institute, IIM Ahmedabad topped in the management category and IIT Kharagpur was the best in the Architecture category.