NIRF 2023: Education ministry adds new category; invites applications for India Rankings

NEW DELHI: The National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) has introduced a new category namely Agriculture and Allied Sectors. NIRF was launched in 2015 by the ministry of education to rank Indian universities and colleges based on objective criteria to promote competitive excellence.

The education ministry has also invited applications for NIRF Rankings 2023, the eighth edition of this annual exercise. The India Rankings 2023 registration has begun from October 17, 2022.

The ministry informed, “NIRF has introduced a new category namely Agriculture & Allied Sectors. Institutions willing to participate may register under Agriculture & Allied Sectors.” Last year, a new category, research institution, was introduced taking the total number of categories to 11. With the addition of the Agriculture and Allied Sectors category the total number has risen to 12.

“All the institutions which have participated in the previous India Rankings exercise have been pre-registered. A mail in this regard has already been sent to the Heads of the respective institutions to confirm institution details for India Rankings 2023,” it said.

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In case any institute which has not registered and wants to participate in the India rankings 2023 conducted by the ministry will have to submit applications at the official website nirfindia.org.

“In case of any query, contact National Board of Accreditation at helpdesk@nirfindia.org or call at 011-40159583/87/89,” it said.

NIRF rankings 2022 also saw an increase in the participation of institutes. A total of 7,254 took part in last year's rankings compared to 6,272 participants in 2021. Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras was declared the best institution in the overall, engineering categories last year.

Indian universities and colleges will be ranked based on teaching, learning and resources (TLR), research and professional practice (RP), graduation outcomes (GO), outreach and inclusivity (OI), peer perception. Apart from these six parameters, there are about 16 to 18 sub-parameters used for ranking the institutions in different categories.