Kanpur: The country's top three higher education institutions in the sixth edition of the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) was announced today by Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan.
In the overall category, IIT-K has achieved the fifth rank with 76.50 points.
The number of Indian institutes registered for the NIRF ranking 2020 increased by 20 per cent as compared to the year 2019.
In the year 2020, as many as 3,800 institutes participated in NIRF Rankings. In 2021, the number remained at a total of 6000.
The top institutes and universities of India are judged on certain pre-determined factors for the NIRF Rankings.
These include -- Teaching, Learning & Resources, Research and Professional Practice, Graduation Outcomes, Outreach and Inclusivity, and Peer Perception.
Each of these parameters includes sub-parameters as well.
Though there were only four factors based on which the NIRF rankings were conducted in the first year of the educational institute rankings in the year 2015.
Numerous factors have been drawn up by the core committee, as was reported.
