NIRF 2018: IIMs hold all top 10 ranks for best Management institutes; check the full list here

NEW DELHI: As per the latest National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) data released, all 10 top ranks for the top management colleges are held by the Indian Institute of Management with IIM Ahmedabad being at the top position followed by IIM Bangalore and Calcutta at the second at the third spot. Xavier Labour Relations Institute, Management Development Institute and National Institute of Industrial Engineering are the only three institutes apart from the IIMs in the top 15 rankings of the NIRF.

The Human Resource and Development (HRD) Ministry on Tuesday released the rankings for 2018. The announcement was made by Union HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar along with Minister of state HRD Satya Pal Singh at Delhi's Vigyan Bhawan. While the Indian Institute of Science (IISC) in Bengaluru was adjudged the overall best institution in the country, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)-Madras topped in the engineering category.

Here is the full list of top 50 institutes as per the NIRF rankings:

1) Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad
2) Indian Institute of Management Bangalore
3) Indian Institute of Management Calcutta
4) Indian Institute of Management Lucknow
5) Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
6) Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode
7) Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
8) Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
9) Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
10) Xavier Labour Relations Institute
11) Indian Institute of Management Indore
12) Management Development Institute
13) Indian Institute of Management Udaipur
14) National Institute of Industrial Engineering
15) Indian Institute of Management Tiruchirappalli
16) Great Lakes Institute of Management
17) Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
18) Symbiosis Institute of Business Management
19) S. P. Jain Institute of Management & Research
20) Indian Institute of Management Kashipur
21) Indian Institute of Management Raipur
22) ICFAI Foundation for Higher Education
23) Indian Institute of Foreign Trade
24) SVKM`s Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies
25) International Management Institute New Delhi
26) Rajiv Gandhi Indian Institute of Management
27) Indian Institute of Management Rohtak
28) Anna University
29) Vellore Institute of Technology
30) Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology
31) Institute of Management Technology
32) Loyola Institute of Business Administration
33) PSG College of Technology
34) Jamia Millia Islamia
35) Institute for Financial Management and Research
36) Xavier University
37) Fore School of Management
38) Lovely Professional University
39) Banaras Hindu University
40) Indian Institute of Management Ranchi
41) Indian Institute of Forest Management
42) Panjab University
43) Institute of Rural Management Anand
44) Birla Institute of Technology
45) Birla Institute of Management Technology
46) Koneru Lakshmaiah Education Foundation University
47) Lal Bahadur Shastri Institute of Management
48) Amity University
49) Aligarh Muslim University
50) Institute of Management and Entrepreneurship Development

To ascertain the rankings, the NIRF outlines a methodology to rank institutions across the country. A Core Committee set up by HRD Ministry draws a methodology from the overall recommendations to identify the broad parameters needed for ranking various universities and institutions. These parameters broadly cover "teaching, learning and resources", "research and professional practices", "graduation outcomes","outreach and inclusivity", and "perception".

This year, the HRD Ministry introduced three new categories - medical, architecture and law. The existing categories include - Overall, Universities, Engineering, Colleges, Pharmacy and Management. While the categories - universities, engineering, management and pharmacy - have been in place since 2016, overall and college categories were added in 2017.