The HRD ministry is going to announce a framework for ranking higher institutions in India in September 2015, reported the Economic Times.
The Government will cover all institutes offering courses on engineering, law, management and humanities and is expected to publish the first Indian academic ranking list by January-February 2016.
Though Indian institutions have consistently ranked lowly in global rankings, the ministry has reportedly been consulting with Quacquarelli Symonds rankings and Times Higher Education World University Rankings for some time to look at methods of improving India’s rankings as well as developing its own ranking methods.
The HRD ministry had asked a committee to help it formulate the rankings which consist National Board of Accreditation Chairman (NBA) Surendra Prasad, IIT-Kharagapur Director PP Chakraborty, IIT-Madras director Bhaskar Ramamurthi, besides the higher education secretary and HRD ministry officials.
“This is a scientifically designed ranking framework based on objective and authentic parameters,” a committee member told ET on the condition of anonymity. NBA chairman Prasad said the HRD ministry would now have to make a decision.
The Indian ranking framework would include parameters like teaching-learning; research; collaborative practice and professional performance; graduate outcomes; placements; outreach and inclusive action and peer group perception. Each of these has been further subdivided into nearly 20 sub criteria to comprehensively assess an institute.
Outreach and inclusive action would be important criteria as the government would focus on steps taken to include students from disadvantaged section of society and geographical distribution to which students belong.
A web based portal would allow any institute to furnish its information which would be further checked by the inspection.
In the legal field, magazines such as Outlook and India Today have long attracted criticism from the legal community for its more bizarre rankings, leading to boycotts by several national law schools of the rankings.
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Comments
Indeed, its easy to bracket institutes such as IITs and NITs and institutes such as IIMs which, as institutes of national importance, come under the purview of HRDs. What will be the basis for bracketing NLUs? On what basis can it compare NLUs, State universities and private universities?
And it intends to do all this in four months!
Crazy!
1. NLSIU is number 1 in academic reputation but NALSAR is number 1 in placements and NLUD is number 1 in faculty quality and infrastructure. This should be reflected and NLSIU cannot blindly be ranked number 1.
2. Times London etc give a lot of weightage to faculty research. How will this be judged? For example some professors have written hundreds of crap articles in crap journals, and a bunch of useless books. Will this count for more points than a good article in a good journal? For example see this gem of an article by a so-called professor at NUJS, in a journal that he founded himself! https://docs.google.com/a/nujs.edu/file/d/0B4XaA30casoDaWlRWXl3ak90QWs/edit?pli=1
I hope quality is given more importance than quantity.
3. Infrastructure should be given points. The new NLUs generally have better infrastructure than the old ones, and it is unfair to the new NLUs if this is not reflected.
4. Finally, who will be in the rankings committee? An RTI should be filed. It cannot be dominated only by IIT profs for law rankings. I think the committee should have Madhav Menon, Upendra Baxi, Gopal Subramanian and Harish Salve.
Seems like academic writing is moving in the right direction !!!
Comment # 3 waale 'Expert' ko toe aap bhool gaye!
1. NLSIU
2. NALSAR
3. NUJS (interchangeable with NLU Delhi)
4. NLU Delhi
5. NLU Jodhpur
6. NLIU Bhopal
7. Delhi University
8. GNLU Gujarat
9. Symbiosis Pune
10. HNLU Raipur (interchangeable with Amity, IP Univ, NUALS)
1. NLSIU, Bangalore
2. NALSAR, Hyderabad
3. NUJS, Kolkata
4. NLU Jodhpur/NLIU Bhopal/NLU Delhi
5. GNLU Gandhinagar
6. HNLU Raipur/RMLNLU Lucknow/Symbiosis Pune/ILS Pune/GLC Mumbai/Amity Law School Delhi
7. NUALS Kochi/NLU Odisha/Christ Bangalore
8. RGNUL Patiala/JGLS/Nirma University
http://www.lawctopus.com/clat-colleges-preference-list-the-rankings/
http://www.lawctopus.com/india-todays-law-college-rankings-2015/
[...] How can Christ, Amity and Symbi be ranked higher than JGLS? You equate JGLS with Nirma? What a JOKE.
It will be good that the Indian government will come out of its own rankings.
http://www.lawctopus.com/india-todays-law-college-rankings-2015/
[...] How can Christ, Amity and Symbi be ranked higher than JGLS? You equate JGLS with Nirma? What a JOKE.
It will be good that the Indian government will come out of its own rankings.[/quote]
JGLS should be declared #1, for three reasons:
1. excessive Fees to restrict/filter entry
2. Higly paid foreign educated teacher: not to generalise, but if u have money can afford going offshore to some jony's joker University to purchase a degree, u will be regarded here as best,
3. barring few, producing self proclaimed excellent lawyers (obviously majorly sons and daughters of all rich and influential people including managing partners of law firms, judges, advocates etc. )
i feel it should be below lalu's charwaha vishvidyalaya..!!! stop cribbing and prove ur metal to be called as number 1
Unless a ranking purports to be scientific and objective, treat it as someone's opinion and feel free to disagree, but not sure it's worth getting so upset about.
Here's some more thoughts about rankings:
http://www.legallyindia.com/201207272979/Law-schools/the-final-word-on-law-school-rankings-and-how-they-should-matter