NIRF 2024: Ministry of Education To Announce Rankings at 3 PM Today

The Ministry of Education is slated to announce the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) 2024 today, August 12, at 3 pm. Higher education institutions in India are ranked and evaluated according to a number of criteria by the NIRF Rankings on an annual basis. Dharmendra Pradhan, Union Education Minister, will hold a press conference to reveal this year’s rankings. The NIRF Rankings 2024 will be made available shortly after the press conference at nirfindia.org.

The NIRF ranked institutions in the following domains:

–– Overall

–– Engineering

–– Pharmacy

–– Colleges

–– Medical

–– Law

–– Agriculture

–– Architecture

–– Dentistry.

Teaching and learning, research and professional practice, graduation results, outreach and inclusion, and perception are among the factors used for the evaluation of each institution. To show the relative importance of each criterion, a range of percentages is used. Teaching, learning, and resources, as well as research and professional practice, are each assigned 30 per cent of the weightage. Graduation results contribute for 20 per cent, while outreach, inclusion, and perception account for 10 per cent of the overall weightage.

IIT Madras took first place in the ‘Overall’ category last year, followed by IISc Bengaluru and IIT Delhi. In the ‘Universities’ category, IISc Bengaluru ranked top, followed by JNU and Jamia Millia Islamia. Miranda House dominated the ‘Colleges’ category, while AIIMS Delhi placed first in the ‘Medical’ category.​

There are a total of seven central universities, twenty-four deemed-to-be universities, seven private universities, twenty-six state universities, and thirty-six INIs (IITs, NITs) among the top 100 higher education institutions (HEIs) in the ‘Overall’ category of the 2023 NIRF rankings.

In contrast to 7,254 in 2022, a total of 8,686 applications were submitted for the rankings last year. In 2023, there were thirteen categories into which the institutions were distributed, up from four in 2016. The Narendra Modi-led government introduced the NIRF rankings in 2016, making it India’s only university rating system.

While the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) is an important tool for evaluating educational institutions’ performance, University Grants Commission (UGC) chairman Mamidala Jagadesh Kumar had previously highlighted that these rankings do not determine a university’s funding or other regulatory aspects.