Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras retained the top spot as India's best institute in both the 'Overall' and 'Engineering' categories in the latest National Institutional Rankings Framework (NIRF) 2020 announced by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) virtually on Thursday.
This is the second consecutive year that IIT Madras, identified as an 'Institute of Eminence', has bagged the top spot in the overall category and fifth in the engineering category.
IIT Madras is followed by Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bengaluru, IIT Delhi, IIT Bombay and IIT Kharagpur, which retained their second, third, fourth and fifth ranks, respectively,