On June 11, the Union HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal announced the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) India rankings. These rankings are prepared based on parameters like teaching, learning and resources, research and professional practice, graduation outcomes, outreach and inclusivity and perception in higher education institutions. While announcing the rankings, the minister said that these rankings could act as a guide to students looking for higher education. “We will make India’s NIRF ranking so renowned that international institutes would want to be ranked in the Indian ranking instead,” he said. Overall, 3,771 institutions registered in the ranking framework this year—a 20 per cent increase compared to last year.
Hindustan Group of Institutions excelled in various categories of the NIRF rankings. Hindustan Institute of Technology and Science, the prestigious engineering and architecture college of the group, achieved 107th rank among 1,071 engineering institutions; it is placed under the top 10 per cent of the engineering Institutions in India. HITS has also achieved 20th rank in the architecture category. Groups' another vertical, KCG College of Technology, has been listed in the 201-250 band among the engineering institutions in India.
Dr. Anand Jacob Verghese, Director & CEO, Hindustan Group of Institutions
Analysis of the recent NIRF rankings 2020 indicates that among the deemed universities, HITS is in the 25th position at the national level and 9th position in Tamil Nadu. It is also one among the top five engineering institutes with deemed-university status in Chennai. Under architecture category, HITS is one among the top three institutions, with deemed-university status, in India. It is also the top deemed university in Tamil Nadu in the architecture category.
KCG College of Technology is in the 39th position in Tamil Nadu and 13th position in Chennai in engineering category among IITs, IIMs, Central, State, Private & Deemed to be Universities in India. KCG College stands 1st position in Chennai and 3rd position in Tamil Nadu among the non-autonomous colleges affiliated to Anna University. Dr Anand Jacob Verghese, director and CEO, Hindustan Group of Institutions, expressed his gratitude and congratulated the faculty, staff and students for the group's prestigious feat.
