NIRF releases India Rankings 2020; Punjab institutes amongst top listed institutes

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NIRF releases India Rankings 2020; Punjab institutes amongst top listed institutes

Kanwar Inder Singh/ royalpatiala.in/ Chandigarh

Union Minister of Human Resource Development, Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’, today released “India Rankings 2020” of Institutions of Higher Education in various categories on the basis of their performance on five broad categories of parameters. The Minister released India Rankings 2020 virtually in 10 categories in the presence of Minister of State for HRD , Sanjay Dhotre. Additional Secretary (Higher Education), Rakesh Ranjan, MHRD; Chairman UGC, Prof. D. P. Singh; Chairman, AICTE Anil Sahasrabudhe; Chairman NBA, Prof. K.K. Aggarwal; Member Secretary NBA, Dr. Anil Kumar Nassa, and representatives of Higher Education Institutions witnessed the release through video conferencing. This is the fifth consecutive edition of India Rankings of the institutions of higher education in India. In 2020, an addition to nine rankings ie  one domain “Dental” has been introduced for the first time bringing the total tally to 10 categories / subject domains.

Minister said that these rankings acts as a guide to students for selection of universities based on a set of criteria and helps universities to improve their performance on various ranking parameters and identify gaps in research and areas of improvement. He added that the Ranking of Institutions at national level instill a competitive spirit amongst institutions to perform better and secure higher rank in international ranking.

Pokhriyal said that the Ministry of HRD has taken this important initiative of creating a National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF), which is being used for past five years for ranking of institutions of higher education in different categories and domains of knowledge and it is indeed a source of encouragement for all of us.

He said that NIRF have successfully captured all the important aspects of teaching, learning and resources, research and professional practice, graduate outcomes etc. in institutions of higher education.

A total number of 3771 unique institutions offered themselves for ranking under “Overall”, category-specific and / or domain-specific rankings for India Rankings 2020. In all, 5805 applications for ranking were made by these 3771 unique applicant institutions under various categories / domains, which include 294 Universities, 1071 Engineering Institutions, 630 Management Institutions, 334 Pharmacy Institutions, 97 Law Institutions, 118 Medical Institutions, 48 Architecture Institutions and 1659 General Degree Colleges. A noticeable increase in institutional participation in the rankings exercise this year indicating its recognition amongst institutions of higher education in India as a fair and transparent ranking exercise. Number of unique applicants to India Rankings have increased from 3127 in 2019 to 3771 in 2020 whereas total number of applications for ranking in various categories have increased from 4873 in 2019, to 5805 in 2020 i.e. total increase of 644 unique institutions and 932 total applicants.

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As a matter of practice, 200 institutions are ranked in engineering discipline, 100 institutions are ranked in Overall, University and College categories, 75 each in Management and Pharmacy, 40 in Medical and 20 each in Architecture and Law and 30 institutions are ranked in Dental for the first time.

OVER ALL RANK (TOP 100)
IIT Ropar 39
Thapar Institute of Engg.and Technology,Patiala 51
IISER, Mohali 59
GNDU, Amritsar 88
Lovely Professional University

 

UNIVERSITY RANK (TOP 100)
Punjab University, Chandigarh 26
Thapar Institute of Engg.and Technology 31
GNDU 51
Punjabi University, Patiala 64
Lovely Professional University 78
Central University of Punjab, Bathinda 87

 

Medical Institute RANK (TOP 40)
PGIMER, Chandigarh 2
CMC,Ludhiana 18
Govt Medical College, Chandigarh 25
DMC, Ludhiana 26

 

ENGGINERING RANK (TOP-200)
IIT Ropar 25
Thapar Institute of Engg & Technology, Patiala 29
Dr BR Ambedkar Institute, Jalandhar 52
Punjab Engg College, Chandigarh 68
Punjab University Chandigarh 72
Chandigarh University 84
Lovely Professional University 87
PTU,Jalandhar 104
Sant Longowal Institute of Engg & Tech (SLIET) 137
Chitkara University 181

 

MANAGEMENT RANK (TOP 75)
Punjab University Chandigarh 42
Lovely Professional University 49
Chandigarh University 51
Chitkara University 75
LAW RANK (Top-20)
Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law, Patiala 10
Punjab University, Chandigarh 15

 

COLLEGES RANK (TOP-100)
Govt Home Science College, Chandigarh 86

 

DENTAL COLLLEGES RANK
CMC, Ludhiana 18
Punjab University,Chandigarh 28

 

PHARMACY RANK
Punjab University Chandigarh 2
Punjabi University, Patiala 23
Lovely Professional University 29
ISF Collerge, Moga 32
Chitkara University 38
ASBASJS Memorial College, Bela (Ropar) 60

 

ARCHITECTURE RANK
NO COLLEGE FROM PUNJAB  

 

June,11,2020