Govt to roll out ranking system for educational institutes today

The government will roll out an India-specific ranking framework, covering higher educational institutes, in an answer to global ranking agencies, where Indian universities and institutes – including the IITs – have never been able to make the cut, on Tuesday.

The ranking framework will be across disciplines, which takes into account the perception of an institute, outreach, research activity and inclusivity through reservations.

It will be released by HRD Minister Smriti Irani, following marathon meetings of a core committee headed by the HRD Ministry higher education Secretary.

The parameters that would be used for ranking are “teaching learning and resources, research, consulting and collaborative performance, graduation outcome, outreach and inclusivity (through reservations) and perception” said an official note. Each of these has been further sub-divided into nearly 20 sub-criteria to comprehensively assess an institute. 

The rankings will cover all institutes offering engineering, law, management and humanities courses and the first ranking list is expected by January-February 2016. 

The core committee comprises National Board of Accreditation chairman (NBA) Surendra Prasad, IIT-<g data-gr-id="17">Kharagapur</g> director PP Chakraborty, IIT-Madras director Bhaskar Ramamurthi, besides the higher education secretary and HRD Ministry officials.

“The methodology outlined would start a new era of accountability in higher education in the country,” Prasad said. With the underlining theme that the ranking be designed that enable an apple-to-apple comparison, it has been decided that institutes in <g data-gr-id="23">different</g> sectoral field would be compared separately.