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Preamble, Acknowledgements and Credits

The Ministry of Education is pleased to present the eighth edition of India Rankings for the year 2023 based

on ranking parameters identified and defined in the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF). The
eighth edition of India Rankings builds upon previous seven annual exercises undertaken between 2016 and

2022 with consolidation, improvements, and expansion in terms of additional categories and subject
domains added to the ranking exercise, gradual increase in number of institutions that participate in the

annual ranking and number of institutions that are being ranked in various categories and subject domains.
While total number of HEIs that participated in the ranking exercise in various categories and subject

domains have increased from 3565 in 2016 to 8686 in 2023, number of categories and subject domains have
increased from 4 in 2016 to 13 in 2023.

The ranking exercise for the year 2023 continues with the practice of providing a common “Overall” rank in
addition to a separate rank for Universities, Research Institutions, Degree Colleges, and discipline-specific

ranks in Engineering, Management, Pharmacy, Law, Medical, Dental and Architecture & Planning.
Agriculture & Allied Sectors and Innovation are two verticals added to the ranking exercise from 2023
onward.

India Rankings continues to be a colossal and an arduous exercise involving experts with in-depth
knowledge of higher education system in India, nuances of bibliometric & citation analysis, new trends and

advances in data science and data crunching. The Ministry is happy to put on record its appreciation for the
National Board of Accreditation (NBA) for its continued passion and utmost dedication in execution of this

mammoth task year-after-year. The NIRF Team at NBA together with the team of its partner institution, i.e.
INFLIBNET Centre at Gandhinagar have played a vital role in the execution of this task.

India Rankings 2023