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India is set to design its own system of ranking of higher educational institutions. Designed keeping in mind the Indian situation, the new system will stress on outcomes and that ranking of institutions should not be confused with accreditation that is already being done by National Assessment and Accreditation Council. 

Late last month, senior HRD officials, directors of IITs, IIMs, NITs and representatives of CII and FICCI met to work out the ranking system. The categories on which the institutions shall be ranked will be academic performance, teaching-learning, learning resources, graduation outcome, global MoUs and impact/innovation done by institutions.

Ranking for Science, Engineering, Liberal Arts, Social Sciences, Medicine, Law and Business Administration will be done differently. IITs, IIMs, SPA, DU and JNU have been asked to look into outcomes again. 

The official said, new Indian ranking system weightage on a factor like 'perception of an institute' will be less. We do not have too many higher educational institutions that can be on top merely on the basis of perception. In case higher weightage is given to perception factor, few good ones will permanently occupy the top slot, he said.

Instead, more weightage will be given to teaching/learning, graduation outcomes and research. Each of the six groupings consists of various sub-factors. For instance, in case of graduation outcome, sub-factors that will be looked are employment level, percentage of the self-employed, percentage of those pursuing higher education and those who are unemployed.

The official said it also needs to be sorted out how frequently rankings will be done. Most likely it will be once in two years. We will also finalize if a new body is needed to carry out the ranking.

Source: careerindia