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6.6 Inclusions and Exclusions

The NIRF website and NIRF guidelines provides basic qualifiers for an institution to participate in India Rankings
2023 for Overall ranking as well as for domain-specific and category-specific ranking. For example, an institution
should have at least 1,000 students enrolled for various courses at undergraduate and post graduate level to
participate in Overall ranking. Institutions are also required to have graduated a minimum of three batches and
qualify for minimum Faculty Student Ratio (FSR) as mentioned in the NIRF Methodology document for respective
category and discipline.

All applicant HEIs who have published more than 500 research papers in peer reviews journals or have at least 1,000
students pursuing Ph.D., were considered for ranking in Research Institutions category.

7. Visualizing Data Beyond Rankings: Additional Insights

Data for India Rankings 2023 under category-specific and domain-specific ranking was taken from applicant
institutions under five broad generic parameters and 16 - 18 parameters, depending upon a given category or a
subject domain. Moreover, data on publications, citations and patents was taken from Scopus (Elsevier Science), Web
of Science and Derwent Innovation (Clarivate Analytics). Besides using this data for ranking of institutions, the
combined collection of data for all eligible institutions offers a unique opportunity for analysis and to get interesting
and useful insights. Some of the important observations based on a simple data analysis are given below. India
Rankings considers data for three-year period, i.e. 2019 to 2021.

7.1 Teaching, Learning and Resources

Engineering education has witnessed a phenomenal growth in India in past two decades with thousands of
engineering institutions, in private sector as well as in Government sector, coming-up in almost all parts of the country.
As such, discipline of engineering is selected for analysis of faculty data to get a bigger picture of higher education
institutions in India. The discipline is also undergoing a major challenge in terms of quality and employability of its
graduates.

Fig. 3, 4, 5 and 6 below show interesting statistics regarding faculty, their qualifications and teaching experience for all
applicant institutions in engineering discipline. Only 44.51% engineering faculty have doctoral qualifications as
depicted in Table 4 and Fig. 3.

Faculty Number %

Faculty with Ph.D. 71745 44.51

Faculty with Master’s
Degree 89450 55.49

Total Faculty 161195 100.00

Table 4 and Fig. 3: Faculty with Ph.D vs Faculty with Master’s Degree

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