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MHRD National Institutional Ranking Framework 2016 Results Looks Rigged

It’s a great news that MHRD took initiative to create a framework for ranking engineering colleges in India. I am totally curious about ranking methodologies as I am extremely lucky to have a chance to work with India’s top guns on stats. I also had an opportunity to see how a statistical framework can be developed to analyze the data.

When it comes to framework I see few important parameters are missing completely like Student Quality joining the institute and competitiveness of the entrance exam. Faculty Quality and new faculty preference was also ignored. Faculty to student ratio is a good parameter but it cannot be idealized in India because of our intakes are forced by government (for IITs and NITs) private colleges have their own way of managing faculty. These factors are most important when it comes to placements in world class companies. Moreover, IITs see almost 100 percent placements I doubt about the placements in the top institutes ranked by this framework.

The most surprising entry which actually made me challenge who MHRD NIRF ranking is VIT (may be you don’t know it is called Vellore Institute of Technology) at 13th place well above few new IITs and NITs and even BITS. Many private colleges are well above NIT Warangal, which is placed at 28th place. I think one few of the most important parameters are ignored and I am really not sure about the accuracy of data being collected. I visited these universities and tried to compare faculty there was actually no match between IIT, NIT faculty and the people teaching in these private schools.

After analyzing GATE as well as JOSAA cutoffs having collected all faculty information for month form IITs and NITs I feel that if students have to choose they still have to go from IITs and NITs. Beyond a single doubt IITB is best among IITs for now and NIT Warangal is top second NIT in the country. For ranking based on Student Quality and faculty Quality. Have a look at IIT Ranking 2015 and NIT Ranking 2015 for more details.
Another important point missed when it comes to student teacher ratio. How a bunch more teachers with not even a PhD can be compared with Highly qualified teachers teaching a bit higher number of brightest possible students. Have a look at the colleges ranked above IITs and NITs in the below list for complete list check MHRD NIRF ranking.

RankInstituteCityStateScore
1Indian Institute of Technology, MadrasChennaiTamil Nadu89.41
2Indian Institute of Technology, BombayBombayMaharashtra87.66
3Indian Institute of Technology, KharagpurKharagpurWest Bengal83.91
4Indian Institute of Technology, DelhiNew DelhiDelhi82.02
5Indian Institute of Technology, KanpurKanpurUttar Pradesh81.07
6Indian Institute of Technology, RoorkeeRoorkeeUttarakhand78.68
7Indian Institute of Technology, HyderabadHyderabadTelangana77.22
8Indian Institute of Technology, GandhinagarAhmedabadGujarat75.2
9Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar-RupnagarRupnagarPunjab74.88
10Indian Institute of Technology, PatnaPatnaBihar74.68
11Indian Institute of Technology, North GuwahatiGuwahatiAssam74.62
12National Institute of Technology, TiruchirappalliTiruchirappalliTamil Nadu74.45
13Vellore Institute of TechnologyVelloreTamil Nadu74.4
14Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), VaranasiVaranasiUttar Pradesh74.39
15Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of TechnologySuratGujarat73.13
16Indian Institute of Technology, IndoreIndoreMadhya Pradesh72
17Birla Institute of TechnologyRanchiJharkhand71.8
18Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur (Deemed University)-NagpurNagpurMaharashtra71.29
19National Institute of Technology, Rourkela-RourkelaRourkelaOdisha70.8
20Indian Institute of Technology, MandiMandiHimachal Pradesh70.32
21College of Engineering, PunePuneMaharashtra69.71
22National Institute of Technology, Karnataka-MangaloreMangaloreKarnataka68.95
23Motilal Nehru National Institute of TechnologyAllahabadUttar Pradesh67.94
24Psg College of Technology-CoimbatoreCoimbatoreTamil Nadu67.8
25Indian Institute of Technology, JodhpurJodhpurRajasthan67.68
26Indian Institute of Technology, BhubaneswarBhubaneswarOdisha67.58
27Thapar University-PatialaPatialaPunjab67.51
28National Institute of Technology, WarangalWarangalTelangana67.12
29Thiagarajar College of Engineering-MaduraiMadhuraiTamil Nadu66.51
30National Institute of Technology, DurgapurDurgapurWest Bengal65.4
31Amrita School of EngineeringKarunagapalliKerala63.94
32Kalinga Institue of Industrial TechnologyBhubaneswarOdisha63.4
33M. S. Ramaiah Institute of Technology-BangaloreBangaloreKarnataka63.39
34Coimbatore Institute of Technology-CoimbatoreCoimbatoreTamil Nadu62.58
35R.V. College of Engineering-BengaluruBangaloreKarnataka62.26
35National Institute of Technology, CalicutCalicutKerala62.26

The whole ranking looks like either based on a wrong data sets and biased or done by India Today, or Out Look or Data Quest team, who usually rank colleges based on some parameter which no one understands. I don’t see any sensible student or parent would follow this ranking for their admissions. Overall, MHRD National Institutional Ranking Framework 2016 results Looks rigged and beyond acceptance to be followed or used.

I think a better approach to rank Engineering institutes in India based on Student and teach Quality, which eventually result in top researchers, entrepreneur, and great placements.

I am sending a request to MHRD for more details and data to try rebuild this ranking and see if they really are worth looking at or just a publicity stunt usually done by magazines and news papers for higher sales a year.

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7 Comments

  1. Arun P S

    Ranking Is Perfect,more Emphasis Has Been On Research And Practical Knowledge Given To Student

  2. Abhishek

    I have no doubts in ranking made by MHRD as they have given adequate weight age to research which is backbone of one’s college.rest your frustration is due to jealousy,as many nits are ranked below VIT,please try to accept the truth, and study hard to make your college ranking good beside fighting over rankings as these can’t be changed by you, as this is 100% correct and if again not satisfied you can file a case against fraud ranking of MHRD in high court and get justice (dudh ka dudh pain ka pani ho jayega!)

  3. yashasvi

    Sir….I am curious and surprised regerding this ranking….
    What has the govt done about the complaints????

  4. CHAITHANYA KAIPA

    Yes it is true and in engineering technical top notch colleges are IITM and Jnu and i think in this colleges only there are lots of agitations and slogans raised against the modi government. To put off the fire they have given in the top list ….but iitm is good and jnu too….

    1. Siddhartha Rastogi

      According to me the ranking is perfect as they gave peference to research done by collleges because research have a big impact on our society and globalization so in order to see india ‘s growth ranking is perfect and you tall about JNU its not at all thing to be consider here you are alumini and you are talking that issue here think once and moreover placements and teaching is not a big issue as it is more based on the individual rather than college as college can only bring companys think what matters is your hardwork, patience and luck…

  5. Abhijeet Masal

    Yes It seems ranking is based on false data or not with correct parameters. I alumni of IIT Bhubaneswar. Yes It is lagging in standard compare with old IITs by teaching quality and campus facilities but other things are quite good and cant be compared with private colleges. This ranking will create false image about new IITs which are in emerging with their pace.
    Personally what I feel is MHRD should create IITs and NITs ranking separately without considering other colleges. Because IIT tag is quite different outside and can be compare with other colleges. Prestige of the institute should be retained.

  6. ARUN KUMAR

    the ranking parameters absolutely doesn’t makes account of many factors like alma mater, lab infrastructure, collaboration with foreign counterparts,technologies devloped & enterpreneurship capability of passout students.

    although,glad to see my institute IITP ranked #10 but dissapointed to find my alma NITKKR ranked #48.

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