According to the NIRF, South India has the highest number of Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in the top 100 institutions of India.
Published Aug 13, 2024 | 4:07 PM ⚊ Updated Aug 13, 2024 | 6:41 PM
NIRF 2024 rankings. (Representative image/ iStock)
The National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) rankings 2024 was released on Monday, 12 August by the Union Education Ministry.
In the overall category of 100 top educational institutions, The Indian Institute of Technology Madras stood in the number one place, followed by the Indian Institute of Science Bengaluru, which clinched the second spot.
However, in the Universities category, IISc Bengaluru stood first. IIT Madras remained on the top spot for the sixth consecutive year, while the IISc Bengaluru was ranked as the best university for the ninth year in a row.
Vellore Institute of Technology stands at 10th position in the Universities category. It was ranked between eighth and nineteenth positions from 2017 to 2023.
Apart from the top positions, many other institutions from south India have made their mark in this exhaustive list.
According to the NIRF, the Southern region of India has the highest number of Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in the top 100 institutions of India.
36 percent of the top 100 Higher Education Institutions are in the South, while the Northern, Western, and Eastern regions have 30 percent, 19 percent, and 15 percent respectively.
At the state level among 36 HEIs in South India, Tamil Nadu stood first with 18 institutions in the total 100 Higher Education Institutions, followed by Karnataka with six institutions, then Telangana and Kerala with four each, Andhra Pradesh with three, and finally Puducherry with one.
As per the #NIRF2024, the Southern region of India has the highest number of Higher Education Institutions in the top 100 institutions of India.
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Apart from the IITs and other universities, South India also has a number of prestigious National Institutes of Technology.
In the top 100 HEIs, these four made their place.
Among the dental colleges, Saveetha Institute of Medical And Technical Sciences, Chennai and Manipal College of Dental Sciences retained the top two positions.
In Pharmacy colleges,
For research, IISc Bengaluru was declared the best, followed by IIT Madras.
Similarly for law, the National Law School of India University, Bengaluru followed by the National Law University, Delhi and NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad retained their first, second and third spots, respectively.
The participation of HEIs in the NIRF rankings has grown from 3,565 in 2016 to 10,845 in 2024, with the number of categories and subject domains expanding from four in 2016 to sixteen in 2024.
The NIRF provides for ranking of institutions in five broad generic groups of parameters – Teaching, Learning and Resources (TLR), Research and Professional Practice (RP); Graduation Outcome (GO); Outreach and Inclusivity (O&I) and Perception (PR).
(Edited by Sumavarsha Kandula, with inputs from Sai Charan Sana)
