IIT-Madras tops NIRF ’19 rankings

Indian Institutes of Technology Madras ruled the HRD ministry’s ranking of higher education institutions, not only topping the overall category, but also emerging as the top institution in the first edition of the Atal Ranking of Institutions on Innovation Achievements (ARIIA). Among the top 10 institutions in the overall category, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore dropped one position to be at the second place. Miranda House continued to be the top college. As many as six colleges of Delhi University featured in the top 10 colleges this year. IIT, Madras has been ranked on top in the overall category for the first time in the National Institutional Rankings Framework (NIRF) 2019, while it retained its number one position in the engineering category for the fourth consecutive year. IISc had been ranked on top for the first three editions of the NIRF rankings. IITs dominated the rankings with seven of them among the top 10. Two non-technological universities in the top 10 are Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi and Banaras Hindu University. President Ram Nath Kovind released and presented the awards on Monday in Delhi.

Source: Times of India, 9/04/2019