The criterion on which the colleges will be judged are infrastructure per student, student-wise budget spent, student-teacher ratio apart from faculty and placements.
The Human Resource Development Ministry's new plan of ranking colleges instead of universities in the top 10, under National Institute Ranking Framework (NIRF) is likely to invite controversy as technical and non-technical colleges will be judged in the same category.
According to the idea approved by the internal committee of NIRF, institutes like Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) will now fight along with the likes of Loyola College and Presidency College in the race to become the number one college in the country.
While stream-wise ranking like Management, Engineering and Pharmacy will be allotted this year as well, the category for best college is likely to invite trouble as all the institutes that have a student strength of more than 1000 students will be put under the same bracket, including technical and non-technical institutes.
The criterion on which the colleges will be judged are infrastructure per student, student-wise budget spent, student-teacher ratio apart from faculty and placements.
"When we were raking universities, we were looking at the overall infrastructure, budget and other things, now we will have to look at it in terms of per student," said a source.
According to sources, categories like Medical, Law and Humanities and Social Sciences will also be added to the rankings. "The decision to add more categories has been taken because now the rankings will be for particular colleges and not a university as an entity," the source added.
More than 3000 colleges including Loyola College, Presidency College and various Delhi University colleges have already registered for NIRF.
The ranking system, a brainchild of the previous HRD Minister Smriti Irani, was introduced for universities this year.
Until this year, ranking of institutions was only done by private bodies, however the former HRD minister, Smriti Irani initiated ranking of educational institutions by the government and entries were invited by all institutions towards year end. The rankings will be released every year, by the first week of April.
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