Universities to compete with IITs, IIMs in rankings
NIRF rankings are drawn up on the basis of five parameters
Central and State universities will have to
compete with institutions like Indian Institutes of Technology and Indian
Institutes of Management in this year’s official rankings of higher education
institutions, which will be released early in April.
The National Institutional Ranking Framework
(NIRF) was put in place by the Ministry of Human Resource Development last
year, but the first NIRF ranked engineering colleges, business schools and
universities in three separate categories.
“This year, we will have a common list of all
institutions across disciplines and fields. The IITs, IIMs and our universities
will be ranked in a common list,” said an official who did not wish to be
named.
“However, we will additionally bring out the
ranks in the larger sub-categories, like last year,” the official added.
The NIRF rankings are done on the basis of
five parameters against which institutions are rated: teaching and learning
resources; research and professional practice; graduation outcome; outreach and
inclusivity, and perception.
Pay packages
Asked whether a common ranking of
institutions would not be like comparing what were intrinsically different kinds
of institutions — as, for instance, placements from the IIMs were likely to be
better than universities offering humanities’ courses — the official said the
comparisons would be done in such a way as to account for the differences.
“We are not just looking at pay packages but
also at different kinds of job placements with different salary levels. We are
also accounting for students continuing in higher education,” the official told
The Hindu.
“But if students passing out from an
institution end up doing nothing, there is some problem and that will reflect
in the scores.”
As far as perception of an institution goes,
2.4-2.5 lakh people across India have been asked to rank institutions.
Last year, IIT Madras had topped the list of
engineering colleges and IIM Bengaluru had edged out IIM Ahmedabad to top among
business schools. Among universities, Jawaharlal Nehru University and Hyderabad
University were ranked three and four, respectively, while University of Delhi
was at sixth rank.
Source | The Hindu
| 24 February 2017
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