Best, brightest: How NIRF Ranking in education could help students better

Parameters to judge colleges and universities could be expanded to include student opinion

The National Institutional Ranking Framework and the Education Ministry recently released their India Rankings 2022. The rankings list the top ten higher educational institutions (HEI) across separate subjects, and overall.

IIT Madras topped the overall list. Miranda House topped the college rankings for the fourth year in a row; the Indian Institute of Science was number one among universities and IIT Madras aced the ranking for engineering institutions, while IIM-Ahmedabad topped the management list. NIRF also released subject-wise lists for HEIs in medical, pharmacy, dental, law, and architecture.

What do these rankings really mean for students? How do they