Punjab University (PU) has been placed at eighth rank in the 'National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) Rankings' among the universities of the country.The rankings were released by Union Minister for Human Resource Development (MHRD) Smriti Irani at New Delhi on Monday.
It is for the first time that the Government based institutional (NIRF) rankings have been announced by MHRD for the higher education institutions.
University Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences (UIPS), PU has secured second rank among pharmacy institutions in the country. University Institute of Chemical Engineering and Technology (UICET) got 100th place among engineering institutions of the country.
PU got the 76.02 score. It got 97 in Perception, 76.32 in Outreach and Inclusivity (OI), 81.93 in Graduation Outcomes, 84.89 in Research, Professional Practice & Collaborative Performance (RPC) and 56.18 in Teaching, learning & Resources (TlR).
Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), University of Hyderabad (UoH), Tezpur University, University of Delhi (DU), Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) and Visva Bharati have been ranked first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh amongst the universities.
PU Vice Chancellor Prof Arun Kumar Grover has congratulated the faculty, students, alumni, non-teaching and administrative staff for consistent performance of the university in various national and international rankings. The university is consistently trying to improve the performance in all spheres of education and research, he added.
All universities, institutions and IISc have their unique strengths. But, it is a matter of satisfaction that PU is regularly being ranked among the top universities of the country by different rankings, Grover added.