NIFR: NIT Rourkela top institute from state, Utkal breaks into top-100 varsity list
Bhubaneswar: Four educational institutions of the state were among the top 100 institutions on the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) list announced by the Union ministry of human resource development (MHRD) on Thursday.
The National Institute of Technology (NIT) Rourkela ranked 32 overall, improving from 38 last year, followed by Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan (38), Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (44) and IIT Bhubaneswar (56). Like NIT Rourkela, SOA and KIIT improved their overall rankings from 41 and 50, respectively, last year, but IIT Bhubaneswar slipped 10 places from last year’s 46.
In the university category, SOA ranked 20, followed by KIIT (24). The SOA has been securing the top rank among universities in the state consecutively for five years.
Utkal University, which last year fell in the rank band of 101-150, secured a place among the top 100 universities this time. It ranked 96 in the university category. “This is indeed a great thing. Utkal University, the oldest government university of the state, got a place among the best 100 universities of India this year,” said vice-chancellor Soumendra Mohan Patnaik.
In the engineering category, NIT Rourkela and IIT Bhubaneswar ranked 16 and 22, respectively. Other institutions that found a place on the list were SOA (34), KIIT (42), CV Raman College of Engineering (93) and VSSUT (119). In the medical category, SOA ranked 23 and KIIT, 32.
In the management category, Xavier Institute of Management (XIMB) ranked 31, while KIIT and International Management Institute ranked 32 and 63, respectively. IIM Sambalpur was in the rank band of 76-100 in the same category.
KIIT ranked 12 rank in law, while National Law University Cuttack secured 14.
Not a single institution from the state secured a rank among the top 100 colleges of the country.
Berhampur University and Centurion University of Technology and Management, Paralakhemundi, found a place in the rank band of 151-200.