On July 15, 2022, the Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, Ministry of Education (MoE) released the ‘India Rankings 2022- Ranking of Higher Educational Institutions on Performance’. It was prepared by National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF), MoE.
- The ‘India Rankings 2022: Overall’ was topped by Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras of Chennai, Tamil Nadu with a score of 87.59. It retains its 1st position in Overall Category for 4th consecutive year and in Engineering for 7th consecutive year.
- It was followed by Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bengaluru (Karnataka) with a score of 83.57 at 2nd place, and IIT Bombay in Mumbai (Maharashtra) with 82.35 score.
- IIT Madras also ranked top in Engineering College Category.
Basis of Assessment:
The overall assessment is premised upon the 5 parameters of Teaching, Learning & Resources (TLR); Research and Professional Practice (RP); Graduation Outcomes (GO); Outreach and Inclusivity (OI); and Peer Perception. These are further divided into 18-21 sub-parameters.
Table showing the top 5 Rankers in Overall Category:
| Rank | Institute | Score |
| 1 | Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, Chennai | 87.59 |
| 2 | Indian Institute of Science (IIsc), Bengaluru,Karnataka | 83.57 |
| 3 | IIT, Bombay (Mumbai) | 82.35 |
| 4 | IIT Delhi, New Delhi, Delhi | 82.22 |
| 5 | IIT Kanpur (Uttar Pradesh) | 77.83 |
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Table showing top 5 rankers India Rankings 2022: University
| Rank | Institute | Score |
| 1 | IISc | 83.57 |
| 2 | Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU),New Delhi | 68.47 |
| 3 | Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi | 65.91 |
| 4 | Jadavpur University, Kolkata (West Bengal) | 65.37 |
| 5 | Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore (Tamil Nadu) | 63.40 |
- IISC tops the Universities Category for 7th consecutive year.
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Table showing top 5 rankers India Rankings 2022: College
| Rank | Institute | Score |
| 1 | Miranda House, Delhi | 78 |
| 2 | Hindu College, Delhi | 71.86 |
| 3 | Presidency College, Chennai,Tamil Nadu | 71.67 |
| 4 | Loyola College, Chennai | 71 |
| 5 | Lady Shri Ram College For Women, New Delhi | 70.83 |
- Miranda House retains the 1st position amongst Colleges for the 6th consecutive year.
- Colleges in Delhi dominate ranking of colleges with five colleges out of first 10 colleges from Delhi.
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Table showing top 5 rankers India Rankings 2022: Research Institutions
| Rank | Institute | Score |
| 1 | IISc (Karantaka) | 88.62 |
| 2 | IIT Madras (Tamilnadu) | 86.38 |
| 3 | IIT Delhi (Delhi) | 82.16 |
| 4 | IIT Bombay (Maharashtra) | 80.21 |
| 5 | IIT Kharagpur (West Bengal) | 74.05 |
- IISc stood first in this Category for 2nd consecutive year.
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Table showing top 5 rankers India Rankings 2022: Engineering
| Rank | Institute | Score |
| 1 | IIT Madras | 90.04 |
| 2 | IIT Delhi | 88.12 |
| 3 | IIT Bombay | 83.96 |
| 4 | IIT Kanpur | 82.56 |
| 5 | IIT Kharagpur | 78.89 |
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Table showing top 5 rankers India Rankings 2022: Management
| Rank | Institute | Score |
| 1 | Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Ahmedabad, Gujarat | 83.35 |
| 2 | IIM Bengaluru, Karnataka | 82.62 |
| 3 | IIM Calcutta, West Bengal | 78.64 |
| 4 | IIT Delhi | 75.10 |
| 5 | IIM Kozhikode, Kerala | 74.74 |
- IIM Ahmedabad tops the Management category for 3rd consecutive year.
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Table showing top 5 rankers India Rankings 2022: Pharmacy
| Rank | Institute | Score |
| 1 | Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi | 79.50 |
| 2 | National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research Hyderabad, Telangana | 79.46 |
| 3 | Panjab University, Chandigarh | 76.29 |
| 4 | National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER), Mohali (Punjab) | 75.78 |
| 5 | Birla Institute of Technology & Science (BITS) Pilani , Rajasthan | 74.99 |
- Jamia Hamdard tops the ranking in Pharmacy for the 4th consecutive year.
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Table showing top 5 rankers India Rankings 2022: Medical
| Rank | Institute | Score |
| 1 | All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Delhi | 91.60 |
| 2 | Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh | 79 |
| 3 | Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu | 72.84 |
| 4 | National Institute of Mental Health & Neuro Sciences (NIMHANS), Bangalore | 71.56 |
| 5 | Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Varanasi, UP | 68.12 |
- AIIMS, New Delhi tops the Medical category for the 5th consecutive year. It ranked at 9th position in Overall category for the first time.
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Table showing top 5 rankers India Rankings 2022: Dental
| Rank | Institute | Score |
| 1 | Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences (SIMATS), Chennai | 82.30 |
| Manipal College of Dental Sciences, Udupi, Karnataka | 77.28 | |
| 3 | Dr. D. Y. Patil Vidyapeeth, Pune (Maharashtra) | 76.67 |
| 4 | Maulana Azad Institute of Dental Sciences (MAIDS), Delhi | 70.48 |
| 5 | King George`s Medical University, Lucknow,Uttar Pradesh | 69.13 |
- SIMATS takes the top slot for the first time in Dental Subject displacing Manipal College of Dental Sciences, Manipal.
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Table showing top 5 rankers India Rankings 2022: Law
| Rank | Institute | Score |
| 1 | National Law School of India University (NLSIU), Bengaluru | 78 |
| 2 | National Law University (NLU), New Delhi | 73.96 |
| 3 | Symbiosis Law School (SLS), Pune, Maharashtra | 73.73 |
| 4 | Nalsar University of Law, Hyderabad | 73.05 |
| 5 | The West Bengal National University of Juridicial Sciences (WBNUJS or NUJS), Kolkata | 70.72 |
- NLSIU retains its first position in Law for the 5th consecutive year.
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Table showing top 5 rankers India Rankings 2022: Architecture
| Rank | Institute | Score |
| 1 | IIT Roorkee, Uttarakhand | 83.46 |
| 2 | IIT Calicut | 77.35 |
| 3 | IIT Kharagpur | 75.42 |
| 4 | School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi | 66.37 |
| 5 | National Institute of Technology (NIT), Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu | 65.19 |
- IIT Roorkee stands at 1st position in Architecture subject for 2nd consecutive year.
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Other Highlights:
i.A total number of 4,786 unique institutions offered themselves for ranking under Overall, category-specific and / or domain-specific rankings for India Rankings 2022. In all, 7,254 applications for ranking were made by these 4,786 unique institutions under various categories / domains including 1,876 in Overall Category, 1,249 in Engineering, and 2,270 in General Degree Colleges.
ii.Number of unique applicants to India Rankings have increased from 2,426 in 2016 to 4,786 in 2022 whereas total number of applications for ranking in various categories have increased from 3,565 in 2016, to 7,254 in 2022 i.e. total increase of 2,360 (97.28% increase) in unique institutions and 3,689 (103.48% increase) in total applicants.
iii.100 institutions are ranked in Overall, Universities and Colleges categories.
iv.Number of institutions that are being ranked in Engineering has been increased to 200 from 2019 onwards.
v.The number of institutions ranked in Management and Pharmacy are being increased from 75 to100 each from 2022 onwards.
vi.Number of institutions ranked are restricted between 30 and 50 in subject domains namely Architecture, Law, Medical, Dental as well as in Research Institutions.
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About National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF):
Approved by approved by the Ministry of Education(then Ministry of Human Resource Development(MHRD)) in 2015, it released the first India Rankings based on this framework in 2016.
Headquarter– New Delhi, Delhi
