ABOUT NIRF

National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) was established by the Ministry of Human Resource Development on 29th September 2015. The framework outlines a methodology to rank institutions across the country.

NIRF 2016 ranked institutions in four broad categories, namely, Universities, Engineering, Management and Pharmacy.

NIRF 2017 ranked institutions in six broad categories, adding colleges as an independent category and also introducing an overall ranking amongst all five categories.

NIRF 2018 expanded the framework to include more institutions with three additional categories to cover Medicine, Architecture, and Law.

NIRF 2019 rankings continue with the practice of providing an overall rank in addition to a separate rank for universities, and discipline-specific ranks in Engineering, Management, Pharmacy, Law, Medical and Architecture. General Degree Colleges are also being ranked for the third consecutive year with much larger participation of colleges.

The ranking exercise for the year 2020 continues with the practice of providing a common “Overall” rank in addition to a separate rank for universities and degree colleges, and discipline-specific ranks in Engineering, Management, Pharmacy, Law, Medical and Architecture.

The NIRF 2021 ranked institutions in ten categories — Overall, University, Management, College, Pharmacy, Medical, Engineering, Architecture, ARIIA (Atal Ranking of Institutions on Innovation Achievements) and Law.

Ranking parameters and weightages of Universities/Colleges: