Advantages of Choosing NIRF Ranking Colleges

In India, there are a lot of colleges to choose from. So many that it can get confusing pretty easily. But just choosing a college is not the only thing. The college needs to be good enough as your career depends on the kind of college you choose.

The traditional way of choosing a college is by the word of mouth and researching the placement rate of colleges. These metrics may be useful but they do not tell the whole story. For example, a college might have a placement rate that is very high, but all the placements are in low paying jobs. This way, a metric can fool you.

The Ministry of HRD, Department of Higher Education, and Government of India came up with a solution for this in the form of NIRF ranking.

What is NIRF?

Simply put, NIRF is a system to rank colleges and universities in India. A committee was set up in which UGC also participated to formulate the National Institute Ranking Framework. The framework lays down certain guidelines under which different colleges are ranked.

How does NIRF Work?

These are the steps involved in ranking a college under NIRF:

Advantages of Choosing Colleges Based on Their NIRF Rankings:

The NIRF is not perfect but it is the best framework we have. Sometimes, certain colleges are ranked higher or lower than better deserving colleges. However, the error is not too much. That is why even if the framework is not perfect. It is still able to give a general idea of which colleges are better than the others.