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By and large, India Rankings continues to give a lot of emphasis to collection, verification and use of reliable data,
        unlike global rankings that gives dis-proportionate weightage to perception and internationalization (in terms of
        international students and international faculty), NIRF relies on ranking based on data, which is more objective,
        especially in a large higher education system like India, where perception data alone can be misleading and amenable
        to manipulation. Although, the task of collection, verification, and authentication of data from a large number of
        institutions, is challenging.

        3.    Metrics to Compute Ranking Scores

         The framework for ranking of institutions is available on the NIRF Web site (https://www.nirfindia.org/ ) in the
        Ranking Documents for various categories and subject domains. These documents identify the relevant data required
        to suitably measure the performance score under each sub-parameter mentioned above and enunciate a suitable
        metric that is used to compute a score for the sub-parameter. The sub-parameter scores are then added to obtain
        scores for each individual parameter. The overall score is computed based on the weights allotted to each of the five

        broad group of parameters.
        4.    Major Changes Introduced in India Rankings 2023

        The framework, methodology and metrics used for ranking of HEIs for India Rankings in its previous edition were
        continued for the current year without any major changes. With expansion of scope of  “Architecture” to “Architecture

        and Planning”, programs and faculty pertaining to Planning (in addition to Architecture) is being considered for
        ranking of HEIs in this subject domain.
        Parameters and methodology for ranking institutions under “Agriculture and Allied Sectors” was developed afresh
        under the overall National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) and are available on the NIRF Web site. Innovation

        Ranking  for  the  2023  is  done  using  methodology  developed  by  Atal  Ranking  of  Institutions  on  Innovation
        Achievements (ARIIA), Innovation Cell of Ministry of Education. However, methodology for Innovation ranking will be
        aligned to the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) from next year onwards.

        5.    Participation: Pre-registration and New Registration

        In order to encourage larger participation in India Rankings, all institutions that had applied in the previous year, were
        pre-registered for India Rankings 2023 and were invited to participate in the ranking exercise. In addition, other
        institutions desirous of participating in the India Rankings 2023 were invited to register on the NIRF Web portal
        through a public advertisement. All institutions were requested to submit their applications online for ranking under
        Overall category as well as for ranking in one or more disciplines along with relevant data in a prescribed format by 20 th
        January 2022. Table 1 provides number of institutions that were pre-registered as well as those who registered
        themselves voluntarily.  Table 2 and 3 provide number of participating institutions in different categories and domains
        and their geographical distribution respectively.


                             Description             Registered             Submitted

                             Pre-registration              4725              4457
                             Registration                  1680              1086

                             Total                         6405              5543

                     Table 1: Participation Numbers for Pre-registration and New Registration


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