Indian Institute
of Technology (IIT), Madras was declared as the best institute in India, bagging
the top rank in the latest National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) ranking
2021 which was released on September 9, 2021. It is the consecutive third time when
IIT Madras achieved the top spot in the rankings.

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IIT Madras has been ranked number one in India in ‘Overall’ and ‘Engineering’ category in NIRF Rankings 2021. IITs have again scored big in the list with as many as seven IITs securing a spot in the list. While the
Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru ranked the best among research
institutions, according to the Ministry of Education’s NIRF ranking.

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The ranking
include a separate list of top colleges, best medical colleges, top 25
universities, best MBA institutes, and top engineering colleges.

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In the sixth
edition of the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF), eight IITs and
two national Institutes of Technology (NITs) figured in the top ten engineering
institutions in the country.

The
Ahmedabad’s Indian Institute of Management (IIM) ranked the best B-School,
while Jamia Hamdard was declared the top institution for pharmacy studies.

Now if we
talk about college ranking, Miranda House in Delhi ranked the first rank
followed by Lady Sri Ram College for Women, Delhi and Loyola College, Chennai.

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The
registered number of Indian institutes has increased as compared to previous
years. The NIRF ranking 2020 had increased by 20% as compared to 2019. Last
year, around 3,800 educational institutes had participated in NIRF rankings.

The NIRF
shortlisted the institutes on the basis of teaching, learning and resources
(TLR), research and professional practice (RP), graduation outcomes (GO),
outreach and inclusivity (OI), peer perception.

Last year,
NIRF ranking were released in an online format as a result of the Covid-19. IIT
Madras was judged by India’s top institution 2020 (overall category) and Indian
Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore was the top university followed by
Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU).