National Institutional Ranking Framework
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| Frequency | Annual |
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| Publisher | Ministry of Human Resource Development |
| First issue | 2016 |
| Country |
 India
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| Language | English |
| Website | www |
National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) is a methodology adopted by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Government of India, to rank all institutions of higher education in India. The Framework was approved by the MHRD and launched by Minister of Human Resource Development on 29 September 2015. There are separate rankings for different types of institutions depending on their areas of operation like universities and colleges, engineering institutions, management institutions, pharmacy institutions and architecture institutions. The Framework uses several parameters for ranking purposes like resources, research, and stakeholder perception. These parameters have been grouped into five clusters and these clusters were assigned certain weightages. The weightages depend on the type of institution. About 3500 institutions voluntarily participated in the first round of rankings. The 2017 ranked lists were released by MHRD on 3 April 2017.
MHRD organized a one-day workshop on 21 August 2014 on evolving methodologies for the ranking of institutions of higher education in India. The meeting resolved to constitute a Committee for evolving a National Ranking Framework. Later it was also decided to co-opt representatives of Central Universities and IIMs also into the proposed Committee. Based on these decisions, a Core Committee consisting of 16 members was constituted on 29 October 2014 with Secretary (HE, MHRD, as Chairperson and Additional Secretary (TE), MHRD, as Member-Secretary. The other members were the Directors of the IIT's at Kharagpur and Madras, the Vice-Chancellors of Delhi University, EFL University, Central University of Gujarat and JNU, Directors of the IIM's at Ahmedabad and Bangalore, Directors of School of Planning and Architecture (Delhi), NIT (Warangal), ABV-Indian Institute of Information Technology & Management (Gwalior), IISER (Bhopal), NAAC (Bangalore) and Chairperson of NBA (New Delhi).
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