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Rankings for Indian Universities and Institutes for 2017 will be published on April 03, 2017 according to a notice published on NIRF website. The National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) is the India’s own top university rankings, launched by the Ministry of Human Resources and Development (MHRD) on September 29, 2015.

Institute will be considered eligible for ranking on the basis of overall and discipline-specific excellence this year. MHRD has completed the process of collecting data about higher education institutes in India through Data Capturing System (DCS). The portal for Public perception which was started on February 1st 2017 is still open and will close today at 5:00 pm.

The first ever NIRF ranking was published in 2016. The institutes which participated in the ranking system were ranked in four categories - University, Engineering institutes, Management institutes and Pharmacy institutes. The institutes were ranked on five major parameters. In the ranking system, the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore was ranked as the number one university in India.

MHRD has set apart five major criteria on which the universities and institutes are ranked on. The maximum points for each criteria is 100 and the total score of an institute is then scaled down to 100. Each parameter holds different weightage in the ranking system. The five parameters for ranking are:

Teaching, Learning and Resources (TLR) - For TLR, institutes are assessed on multiple factors such as student strength, faculty-student ratio, financial resources and their utilization etc. The weightage for TLR in ranking is 0.30.

Research and Professional Practice (RPP) - For RPP, institutes are ranked on factors such as research papers and journals published, quality of publication etc. The weightage for RPP in ranking is 0.30.

Graduation Outcome (GO) - Under GO, institutes are ranked on factors such as placements, median salary, ratio of students admitted to top universities etc. Weightage for this metric for overall ranking is 0.20.

Outreach and Inclusivity (OI) - Under this criteria institutes are assessed on the diversity factor such as number of students from other states, women students etc. The weightage for this metric is 0.10.

Perception - Institutes are also assessed for peer and public perception. The weightage accorded to perception of an institute for overall ranking is 0.10.