NIRF Ranking 2018 lists IISc, IIT-Madras, IIM-Ahmedabad, JNU as top institutes: Delhi's Miranda House is India's best college

The National Institution Ranking Framework (NIRF) 2018 rankings for higher education institutes was announced by the Union Human Resource Development Ministry on Tuesday. Bengaluru-based Indian Institute of Science topped the overall rankings and also secured the top position in the best university category. This is the second time in a row that the IISc has topped the list. The Indian Institute of Science was established in 1909 through a partnership between industrialist Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata, the Maharaja of Mysore and the Government of India, according to its official website.

The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, Bombay, Delhi and Kharagpur bagged the second, third, fourth and fifth positions, respectively. In fact, IITs ruled the NIRF rankings this year. IIT-Kanpur, Roorkee, Guwahati and Hyderabad have figured in the top 25 on the list. The rankings, according to the report was released under nine categories : Overall, universities, engineering, colleges, management, pharmacy, medical, architecture, and law. The NIRF also added several new criteria such as total budget and its utilisation, combined metric for quality of publications, university examinations and how many graduating students admitted into top institutions.

Under the law category, National Law University (NLU) Bangalore has been ranked top followed by NLU Delhi and NLUSAR. In the architecture category, IIT-Kharagpur is on the top while IIT-Roorkee and SPA Delhi have been ranked at number two and three. NIRF has added medical colleges as a new category this year and AIIMS Delhi has topped the list followed by PGIMER and Christian Medical College Vellore.

This year, NIRF list has nine categories — law, architecture and medical has been added to the existing list of universities, engineering colleges, pharmacy and best colleges. The NIRF also added several new criteria such as total budget and its utilisation, combined metric for quality of publications, university examinations and how many graduating students admitted into top institution.

Among top colleges Delhi’s Miranda House was announced as India’s best college, while the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, was ranked the top management institute. AIIMS, PGIMER Chandigarh and CMC Vellore were ranked as the top three medical colleges.

Here are the top 25 overall rankings:

Top Five Universities

Top Five Engineering Colleges

Top Five Colleges

Top Five Management Institutes

Top Five Medical Colleges

Top Five Law Colleges