IIT-G retains 7th position in engineering category, 8th in overall category

Guwahati: Indian Institute of Technology-Guwahati has retained its position in the National Institutional Rankings Framework (NIRF), achieving 7th rank in the 'Engineering' Category this year. The institute also retained its position in the 'Overall' Category, recording a rank of 8th in NIRF 2022.

Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan announced NIRF 2022 results today.

Announcing the NIRF 2022 Ranking Results, Pradhan said, "The list of top Institutes released in NIRF 2022 showcases the impartial and qualitative assessment done by the Ministry of Education. Our Hon'ble Prime Minister had the vision to make sure all Higher Education Institutions should be able to highlight their outstanding performance to the young aspirants."

Pradhan added, "Knowledge-based innovation, entrepreneurship, and digitalization is the way forward for emerging countries. Blended multidisciplinary programmes at institutes like IITs are the need of the hour. Industry's expectation of engineering technocrats having managerial capabilities is an example of the same the time has arrived when India will lead the education front globally."

Congratulating the Institute on its performance, Prof TG Sitharam, Director, IIT Guwahati, said, "The performance of the institute directly reflects the contribution of the students and the faculty members, and we will continue to support their efforts"

Highlighting the plans for coming years, Prof Sitharam said, "The institute is making efforts for promoting interdisciplinary research by initiating several academic schools and centres as part of NEP2020 implementation. This will not only enhance interaction among top academicians and enhance the standards of higher education but also bring to the forefront the best academic practices and also enhance our abilities to solve societal problems."

IIT Guwahati is the only academic institution in India that occupied a place among the top 100 world universities - under 50 years of age - ranked by the London-based Times Higher Education (THE) in 2014. It continues to maintain its good position even today in various International Rankings.

IIT Guwahati has eleven departments, seven inter-disciplinary academic centres and five schools covering all the major engineering, science and humanities disciplines, offering B. Tech, B Des, MA, M Des, M Tech, MSc/MS and PhD programmes. The institute offers a residential campus to 435 faculty members and more than 7,000 students at present.

IIT Guwahati gained rank 37 globally in the 'Research Citations per Faculty' category and overall 384 ranks in the QS World University Rankings 2023 released recently.

Among other frontier areas of research and innovation, IIT Guwahati is working towards augmenting critical science research initiatives in Genomics, Developmental Biology, Nanotechnology, Healthcare and Bioinformatics, Flexible Electronics, Advanced Functional Materials, Sustainable Polymers, Rural Technologies, Disaster Resilience and Risk Reduction, AI/ML and Water Resources and Management.

Starting in 2015, NIRF outlines a methodology to rank educational institutions across the country. The parameters used for ranking broadly cover "Teaching, Learning and Resources," "Research and Professional Practices," "Graduation Outcome," "Outreach and Inclusivity," and "Perception," a press release said.

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