GUWAHATI: Indian Institutes of Technology Guwahati (IITG) has bagged the seventh rank in Engineering and eighth rank in the overall category in National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF), 2021.
Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has announced NIRF 2021 results on Thursday, September 9, through video conferencing.
“In India especially the public Institutions should come out with their own ranking framework as the state fully supports the Institutes. The entire ecosystem is primarily qualitative in India but we are a little hesitant in nature. In India, we never consider education as a commodity but in the western world, it is slightly commercialized. The ranking practice around the globe was a surprise to me, the quality of research work, the quality of knowledge power in our institutions was a pleasant surprise to me,” Pradhan said.
The Director of the IITG Prof T. G. Sitharam, while congratulating the Institute on its performance said, “This is a reflection of the dedicated effort by the institute faculty, staff and students despite the pandemic. This is clearly reflected in both overall and engineering ranks over the past several years and seen in international rankings as well.”
“The Institute has been working in multiple fronts of academic and industry to attract the best brains across the world and industry leaders, who have been given appointments as honorary and visiting faculty members and this, has intensified both the academic collaboration and industry interaction, thereby allowing more technology transfers and better publications. This has also resulted in attracting higher research funds, opening newer academic interdisciplinary schools and centres and engaging more closely with government organizations for socially relevant projects as well as implementing the NEP2020,” while highlighting the Academic and Research plans for the upcoming year Sitharam further added.
Ranked by the London-based Times Higher Education (THE) in the year 2014, IITG is the only academic institution in India that occupied a place among the 100 Top World Universities and continues to maintain its superior position even today in various International Rankings.
The Institute also gained rank 41 globally in the ‘Research Citations per Faculty’ category and overall 395 ranks in the QS World University Rankings 2022 released recently.
Among other frontier areas of research and innovation, IITG is working towards augmenting critical science research initiatives in Genomics, Developmental Biology, Health Care and Bioinformatics, Flexible Electronics, Advanced Functional Materials, Sustainable Polymers, Rural Technologies, Disaster Resilience and Risk Reduction, and Water Resources and Management.