How the states perform in the NIRF ranking 2022?

See which states lead in different education sectors.

National Institutional Ranking Framework released its latest ranking for the year 2022 for overall and various streams of institutions.

The ranking is performed over the following categories of educational institutions

1. Overall

2. Universities

3. Colleges

4. Research Institutions

5. Engineering

6. Management

7. Pharmacy

8. Medical

9. Dental

10. Law

11. Architecture

Factors considered for NIRF ranking

Teaching, Learning & Resources (TLR)

• Student Strength including Doctoral Students (SS)

• Faculty-student ratio with emphasis on permanent faculty (FSR)

• Combined metric for Faculty with PhD (or equivalent) and Experience (FQE)

• Financial Resources and their Utilisation (FRU)

Research and Professional Practice (RP)

• Combined metric for Publications (PU)

• Combined metric for Quality of Publications (QP)

• IPR and Patents: Published and Granted (IPR)

• Footprint of Projects and Professional Practice (FPPP)

Graduation Outcomes (GO)

• Metric for University Examinations (GUE)

• Metric for Number of Ph.D. Students Graduated (GPHD)

Outreach and Inclusivity (OI)

• Percentage of Students from Other States/Countries (Region Diversity RD)

• Percentage of Women (Women Diversity WD)

• Economically and Socially Challenged Students (ESCS)

• Facilities for Physically Challenged Students (PCS)

• Perception (PR) Ranking

Peer Perception

• Academic Peers and Employers (PR)

Let’s see the state wise ranking analysis in each of these sectors

Tamil Nadu holds 18% of total colleges in overall category.

Out of 100 colleges, 18% of total colleges are in TN, followed by Delhi, Punjab, Karnataka and Kerala, with both government and private universities doing well.

https://www.nirfindia.org/2022/OverallRanking.html

There are 200 top Engineering Institutions 🤯

Since there are lot of colleges competing to excel in engineering education, there are top 200 colleges listed out of which 35 of them belong to Tamil Nadu, followed by 19 in Karnataka and 17 in Maharashtra.

https://www.nirfindia.org/2022/EngineeringRanking.html

Medical ⚕️

Tamil Nadu still dominates with 16% share here even though it has strongest opposition to NEET exam in the country followed by Delhi, Karnataka and Odisha. There are 50 colleges which made up to the ranks.

https://www.nirfindia.org/2022/MedicalRanking.html

Management 👨🏾‍💼

Fun Fact: Among IIMs, this year it has become ABCD as IIM Delhi jumps to 4th position. Out of 100 colleges UP tops followed by TN, Maharashtra and others.

https://www.nirfindia.org/2022/ManagementRanking.html

Arts and Science Colleges 🧑🏻‍🎨

Arts and Science colleges are categorised as “College” by NIRF. Delhi and TN have equal counts of 32 each out of 100 colleges in the rank comprising 62% of total share together!

https://www.nirfindia.org/2022/CollegeRanking.html

Research Institutions 🧪

From the data we can fairly assume that there are very less number of research institutions compared to engineering institutions in India with only 50 making up to ranks. These comprise research in general including technology, medical science, nuclear science, etc. Here as well, TN seems to be doing well with 20% of total share, followed by Delhi, Maharashtra and UP.

https://www.nirfindia.org/2022/ResearchRanking.html

Law ⚖️

Lawyers often tend to become politician.

There are just 30 law colleges which made up to the rankings, most of them are in Delhi followed by Punjab, Odisha and Uttar Pradesh.

https://www.nirfindia.org/2022/LawRanking.html

Dental 🦷

There are 40 dental colleges which made up to the ranks, most of them in Karnataka and TN.

https://www.nirfindia.org/2022/DentalRanking.html

Pharmacy 💊

When it comes to pharmacy, Maharashtra, followed by Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh have highest number of premier pharmacy institutes out of 100 institutes ranked.

https://www.nirfindia.org/2022/PharmacyRanking.html

Architecture 📏

Architecture is the field of artistry, layout and overall design of a buildings and infrastructure. TN leads here as well followed by Delhi and Punjab as top 3 out of 30 rank holders.

https://www.nirfindia.org/2022/ArchitectureRanking.html

Closing Thoughts

It is quite evident that the distribution of quality of higher education weighs only in few parts of the country and not so especially in North eastern states and under developed states. Accessibility to quality education is key to most of the people who strive to climb up in the society we live.

References

• https://www.nirfindia.org/Home

• How did I web scrape and generated reports from NIRF portal

  • https://github.com/abhishekbm1996/nirf-2022-statewise-analysis