IIT Bhubaneswar’s NIRF Slide: A Wake-up Call for Odisha’s Higher Education – Times of India
In 2017, when the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) started coming out with the overall rankings system, IIT Bhubaneswar managed 66th spot. In the seven years since, instead of moving up, IIT Bhubaneswar has shed points, dropping out of the top-100 education institutions’ list in the country.IIT Bhubaneswar’s rankings is in stark contrast to that of IIT Hyderabad.Both were established in 2008. In 2017, the Hyderabad-based institute was ranked 26. This year, it has moved up to 12th, showing the rapid strides it has made in these years.In comparison, IIT Bhubaneswar’s fortunes has slowly gone downhill. In 2018 and 2019, it did manage to improve its rankings to 51 and 46, respectively. It fuelled hope. Then Covid came, and along with it the downward spiral.From 56th in 2020, it ...