The government would provide more autonomy and grants to top institutes and universities to promote competition, Human Resource Development Minister Prakash Javadekar said on Monday, while releasing a ranking of educational institutions.
The Ministry of Human Resource Development’s second edition of rankings were of top universities, management institutes, engineering colleges and pharmacy colleges. New parameters were added to the adjudicating process. This year, the government also provided an overall ranking and added degree colleges. About 3,300 colleges and varsities were covered.
The overall top rankings were given to IISc, IIT-Madras, IIT-Bombay, IIT-Kharagpur and IIT-Delhi, in that order. Among degree colleges, Miranda House