PGI Chandigarh country's second best medical college after Delhi's AIIMS in HRD Ministry's annual ranking

Aditi Tandon

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, June 11

Indian Institute of Technology Madras is the top ranked Indian higher educational institution in India as per the domestic rankings released on Thursday.

Indian Institute of Science Bengaluru and IIT Delhi follow in the National Institutional Rankings Framework, the update of which was released by HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal.

Seven of the top 10 HEIs in India are IITs. IISC, JNU and BHU are the only non-technical institutes in top 10 and are ranked 2, 7 and 10, respectively.

The NIRF has also ranked institutions separately by category with AIIMS New Delhi, PGI Chandigarh and CMC Vellore being top three medical schools.

Leading technical schools in the order of merit are IIT Madras, IIT Delhi and IIT Bombay.

Among colleges, Miranda House, Lady Sri Ram and Hindu College are top three, all located in New Delhi.

Leading three universities are IISc Bengaluru, JNU Delhi and Benaras Hindu University.

IIMs Ahmedabad Bangalore and Calcutta are top three management institutes.

Meanwhile, the northern region lags behind on the top 100 Indian institutions with IIT Roorkee in Uttarakhand ranked ninth; IIT Ropar 39, PU Chandigarh 44, Thapar Institute of Engineering Patiala 51, IISER Mohali 59, IIT Mandi 67, University of Kashmir 78, GNDU Amritsar 88, University of Jammu 90, Lovely Professional University in Phagwara at 99.