India Rankings 2016: List Of India’s Top 10 Universities, Management & Engineering Colleges

The rankings are out and now you know which are the top colleges of India in Engineering, Management and Pharmacy. “India Rankings 2016” have been released by the HRD Minister Smriti Irani at Vigyan Bhawan on Monday. This is the first time the ministry has developed a ranking model for institutions of higher education and names of top 100 universities and colleges have been released.

The National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) has awarded IIM Bangalore with the top position in management colleges while Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore has been termed as the India’s best university. As far as Engineering is concerned, IIT Madras has been declared the Number One College while IIT Mumbai and IIT Kharagpur attained the second and third position, respectively.

Both Jawahar Lal Nehru University and Hyderabad Central University were in the center of controversies just recently. These two have also secured third and fourth positions in the list of India’s best universities. The top college for pharmacy in India is Manipal College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Manipal.

According to Smriti Irani, the ministry will try to rank these colleges and universities every year and some more categories will also be included. These rankings will done in the Indian context and it will also focus on those two factors which are ignored in International rankings – first, inclusive education and research done in other than English.

Here is the list of top colleges and universities:

India’s Top 10 Management institutes

1. Indian Institute of Management, Bangaluru
2. Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad
3. Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta
4. Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow
5. Indian Institute of Management, Udaipur
6. Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode
7. International Management Institute, New Delhi
8. Indian Institute of Forest Management, Bhopal
9. Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
10. Indian Institute of Management, Indore

India’s Top 10 Universities

1. Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
2. Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai
3. Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
4. University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad
5. Tezpur University, Tezpur, Assam
6. University of Delhi, Delhi
7. Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi
8. Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, Thiruvanathapuram
9. Birla Institute of Technology and Science –Pilani
10. Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh

Top 10 Engineering institutes in the country:

1. Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
2. Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
3. Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
4. Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
5. Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
6. Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee
7. Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad
8. Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar
9. Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar-Rupnagar
10. Indian Institute of Technology, Patna

India’s Top 10 Pharmaceutical institutes

1. Manipal College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Manipal
2. University institute of pharmaceutical sciences –Chandigarh
3. Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi
4. Poona College of Pharmacy, Erandwane, Pune
5. Institute of Pharmacy, Nirma University, Ahmedabad
6. Bombay College of Pharmacy, Mumbai
7. Birla Institute of technology, Ranchi
8. Amrita School of Pharmacy, Kochi
9. JSS college of Pharmacy, Ootacamund
10. JSS college of Pharmacy, Mysuru

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