Hyderabad: The eight-year-old Indian Institute of Technology-Hyderabad has been ranked the seventh best institution to study engineering in India.
The ‘India Rankings 2016’ — the first-ever such ranking — was released by the National Institutional Ranking Framework, ministry of human resource development, on Monday. UoH continued to mark its presence nationally, being ranked the fourth best university.
Osmania University ranks 33rd in all-India rankings
Prof. U.B. Desai, director of IIT-H said, “The ranking is the highest among all new IITs. We certainly would like to do better and rank higher up in the coming years.” Vice-chancellor of UoH Prof. P. Appa Rao Podile credited the success to faculty, students and non-teaching employees.
Sixteen educational institutions from Telangana state and Andhra Pradesh made it to the top 100 in four categories — Universities, Engineering, Manage-ment and Pharma.
UoH was ranked fourth in the Universities category after Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University. The first two spots were occupied by Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, and Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai. International Institute of Information Technology-Hyderabad and Osmania University were ranked 23 and 33 respectively in the Universities category.
From Andhra Pradesh, Sri Venkateswara Univer-sity was at 63, JNTU-Kakinada at 69 and Yogi Vemana University at 92. IIT-Hyderabad ranked seventh in the Engineer-ing category with 77.22 points. IIT-Madras, with 89.41 points, ranked first.
The rankings also brought out the poor quality of engineering colleges in TS and AP. Only five figured in the top 100 from both states, whereas 16 colleges from neighbouring Maharashtra figured in the rankings. From TS, National Ins-titute of Technology-Warangal ranked 28 and Chaitanya Bharathi Ins-titute of Technology-Hyderabad ranked 71.
From AP, Koneru Lakshmaiah Education Foundation-Guntur ranked 59, Sagi Rama-krishnam Raju Engineer-ing College-Bhimavaram ranked 73 and Vignan’s Foundation For Science, Technology and Resear-ch-Guntur figured 88th.
The Institute Of Public Enterprise-Hyderabad figured in Management rankings at 38. In the Pharma category, University College Of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Warangal figured in the list from Telangana at number 16.
Varsities adjudged
JNU and Hyderabad university, which have been at the centre of massive rows recently, top the list of central varsities while IIT-Madras and IIM-Bangalore lead among technological and management institutions, according to the first ever domestic ranking released by Government.
Top ten Central varsities
1 Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
2 Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai
3 JNU
4 UoH
5 Tezpur University
6 University of Delhi
7 BHU, Varanasi
8 Thiruvanatha puram based Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology
9 Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani
10 AMU
Top ten Technological institutions
All the ten places are occupied by IITs
1 IIT Madras
2 IIT Mumbai
3 IIT Kharagpur
4 IIT Delhi
5 IIT Kanpur
6 IIT Roorkee
7 IIT Hyderabad
8 IIT Gandhinagar
9 IIT Ropar-Rupnagar
10 IIT Patna
Top ten Pharmaceuticals institutes
1 Manipal College of Pharmacy
2 University institute of pharmaceutical sciences, Chandigarh
3 Jamia Hamdard
4 Poona College of Pharmacy, Erandwane
5 Institute of Pharmacy, Nirma University
6 Bombay College of Pharmacy, Mumbai
7 Birla Institute of technology, Ranchi
8 Amrita School of Pharmacy, Kochi
9 JSS college of Pharmacy, Ootacamund
10 JSS college of Pharmacy, Mysuru
Parameters
Perception among students, alumni, parents, employees and public are the key factors.Teaching and learning resources, graduation outcomes, research etc being other factors.
The National Institutional Ranking Framework covering 3,500 different institutes in four different categories was released by HRD minister Smriti Irani.
