Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Ahmedabad retained the number 1 position for the second year in the management institutions category of India Rankings 2018, the 3rd edition of the ranking for higher institutions of learning released by the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) on March 3.
IIM Bangalore retained the second spot as also IIM Calcutta at rank 3 and IIM Lucknow maintaining its 4th rank position.
IIT Bombay captured the number 5 spot, pushing IIM Kozhikode to 6th rank. Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur climbed one spot to the 7th rank, pushing IIT Delhi to the 8th spot. IIT Roorkee was pushed one place down to the 9th rank. Xavier Labour Relations Institute (XLRI), Jamshedpur was placed 10th, the only private management institute to figure in the top ten. It, however, dropped one spot from the 2017 rankings.
The Rankings List includes 100 institutions each in the Overall, University, Engineering and General College Categories, and 50 each in Management and Pharmacy, 25 in Medical and 10 each in Architecture and Law.
The ranking was based on five criteria: Teaching and Learning Resources (TLR), Research and Professional Practice (RPC), Graduation Outcome (GO), Outreach & Inclusivity (OI) and Perception (PR). All institutions were judged based on self-disclosure of information.
In this third edition of India Rankings, a total of 2809 institutions have participated in 9 categories. Collectively they have submitted 3954 distinct profiles, some in multiple disciplines/categories. This includes 301 Universities, 906 Engineering Institutions, 487 Management Institutions, 286 Pharmacy Institutions, 71 Law Institutions, 101 Medical Institutions, 59 Architecture Institutions and 1087 General Degree Colleges.
The parameters used for India Rankings 2018 are broadly similar to those used in previous years. However, some of the sub-parameters have been further tweaked for greater robustness and accuracy. In particular for evaluating Research Impact, parameters for quality of publications have been enhanced to include the number of highly cited papers, (i.e., number of papers lying in the top 25 percentile of citations) in addition to the usual parameters of publications per faculty and citations per paper.
The performance metrics have been optimized to provide a good discrimination over a large range of possible values. All research related information, including publications, citations, highly cited papers and even patent information about institutes was collected from third-party databases to obtain an objective and unbiased picture. For this year’s Perception inputs, a large database of eminent academic and industry peers and employers was deployed.
The data received from both institutional and third-party sources were subject to extensive scrutiny for consistency and correctness by a team of experts. The Rankings List includes 100 institutions each in the Overall, University, Engineering and General College Categories, and 50 each in Management and Pharmacy, 25 in Medical and 10 each in Architecture and Law. Additional rankings in suitably bunched forms are also being provided. Four institutions, which could not easily fit into any of the categories, have been chosen for a special mention for excellence on a few parameters like Research etc.
Although the Central Government funded institutions, in general, continue to do well, some of the state-funded and private universities also appear prominently. Some private institutions and universities have consistently occupied good positions, and some have been rising in their ranks, thus indicating that they offer value for money to their students. Maintenance of consistent or improved positions over previous years clearly indicates that it has not been a one-time random event. This should augur well for Higher Education, NIRF said in a release.
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All in all a biased report of colleges with some degree of government interference. ISB currently tops the list of MBA colleges from India in FT global MBA rankings and it did not even got the mention in the ranking.
Rankings should be owned by an impartial third party private accredited agencies that gives an unbiased report based on global rating parameters.