MHRD-NIRF Ranking 2018 released: IIMs and universities dominate MBA Ranking

MHRD NIRF Ranking 2018 released on April 3, is again dominated by IIMs and Universities in MBA ranking positions. While IIM Ahmedabad has been ranked at 1stplace, IIM Bangalore, Calcutta, Lucknow occupy 2nd, 3rdand 4thplaces respectively followed by IITs among top ten management institutes.

However, PGDM colleges have also gained higher ranking positions as compared to many IIMs. XLRI, MDI have been awarded 10thand 12thranking places respectively in overall NIRF Ranking.
Among the top 50 management institutes, Anna University, VIT Vellore, KIIT Bhubaneswar, XUB Bhubaneswar have been awarded top positions. Surprisingly, Lovely Professional University has been ranked higher than Benaras Hindu University (BHU) in the MBA ranking 2018.

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Releasing the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) Rankings 2018 on April 3, 2018 at Vigyan Bhavan,Union HRD MinisterPrakash Javadekar said that the Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad (IIM-A) has been ranked as the best management institution while Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (IIT-M) has been adjudged the best engineering college and The Indian Institute of Science (IISC) in Bengaluru has been adjudged as the overall best institution in India.
IIMs & IITs offering MBA in India with ranking Position

Following are the top Management institutes as per NIRF MBA Ranking 2018:
Name of the MBA college/University
Overall NIRF MBA Ranking 2018
Ranking within category of IIMs and IITs

Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad
1
1

Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Bangalore
2
2

Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Calcutta
3
3

Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Lucknow
4
4

Indian Institute of Technology, (IIT) Bombay
5
5

Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode
6
6

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur
7
7

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi
8
8

Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
9
9

Indian Institute of Management Indore
11
10

Indian Institute of Management Udaipur
13
11

Indian Institute of Management Tiruchirappalli
15
12

Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
17
13

Indian Institute of Management Kashipur
20
14

Indian Institute of Management Raipur
21
15

Rajiv Gandhi Indian Institute of Management
26
16

Indian Institute of Management Rohtak
27
17

Indian Institute of Management Ranchi
40
18

Top ranked PGDM colleges in India
Many PGDM colleges have found higher ranking positions than the IIMs, IITs and other universities. Below is given a list of top PGDM colleges as per NIRF Ranking 2018

PGDM College
Overall NIRF Ranking 2018
Ranking in PGDM colleges

Xavier Labour Relations Institute (XLRI) Jamshedpur
10
1

Management Development Institute (MDI) Gurgaon
12
2

National Institute of Industrial Engineering, Mumbai
14
3

Great Lakes Institute of Management Chennai
16
4

S. P. Jain Institute of Management & Research, Mumbai
19
5

International Management Institute New Delhi
25
6

Institute of Management Technology
31
7

Loyola Institute of Business Administration, Chennai
32
8

PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore
33
9

Fore School of Management, New Delhi
37
10

Indian Institute of Forest Management
4111

Institute of Rural Management Anand
43
12

Birla Institute of Technology, Ranchi
44
13

Birla Institute of Management Technology, Greater Noida
45
14

Lal Bahadur Shastri Institute of Management, New Delhi
47
15

Institute of Management and Entrepreneurship Development, Pune
50
16

Top MBA Universities in NIRF MBA Ranking 2018
Following are the top 15 Universities as per NIRF Ranking 2018:

Institute Name
Overall NIRF Ranking 2018
MBA University category ranking

Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Pune
18
1

ICFAI Foundation for Higher Education, Hyderabad
22
2

Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, New Delhi
23
3

SVKMs Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai
24
4

Anna University, Chennai
24
5

Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore
29
6

Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology, Bhubaneswar
30
7

Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi
34
8

Institute for Financial Management and Research, Satyavedu
34
9

Xavier University, Bhuabaneswar
36
10

Lovely Professional University, Jalandhar
38
11

Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi
39
12

Panjab University, Chandigarh
42
13

Koneru Lakshmaiah Education Foundation University, Vaddeswaram
46
14

Amity University, Gautam Budh Nagar
48
15

Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh
49
16

Out of total 100 management institutes, MHRD has awarded Ranking positions to 50 management institutes only. Other 50 have been placed in the ranking bands of 51-75 and 76-100 in alphabetical order without assigning the ranking position.
FMS Delhi among Not Ranked MBA colleges
One of the highly ranked, high RoI and most preferred MBA colleges in India, Faculty of Management Studies (FMS)-University of Delhi has not been ranked among management institutes or colleges. FMS Delhi is not the only left out leading MBA college in the NIRF Ranking, there are other leading management institutes who have found no place in ranking. Some of such MBA colleges which have not been ranked in NIRF Ranking 2018 are:

MBA college
Ranking position 2018


Raking position 2017

Faculty of Management Studies (FMS) Delhi University
Not Ranked
Not Ranked

Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies (JBIMS) Mumbai
Not Ranked
Not Ranked

Sydenham Institute of Management Studies And Research And Entrepreneurship Education (SIMSREE)
Not Ranked
Not Ranked

Prin L.N. Welingkar Institute of Management Development and Research (WeSchool) Mumbai
Not Ranked
46

Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University Delhi
Not Ranked
35

GIM Goa
Not Ranked
37

Jaipuria Institute of Management, Noida
Not Ranked
43

MIT School of Telecom ManagementPune
Not Ranked
47

IMI Kolkata
Not Ranked
49

XIME Bangalore
Not Ranked
50

MBA Vs Engineering
One of the anomalies in NIRF Ranking 2018 is that while IITs have been awarded ranking places both in Management and Engineering category, the universities equipped with top MBA departments or affiliated colleges have found no places in Management category. This evident as FMS Delhi, JBIMS, PUMBA have found no ranking positions.

Symbiosis Institute of BusinessManagement (SIBM) Pune, has been ranked for the first time while Great Lakes Institute of Management, Chennai has found a ranking position after a gap of one year in NIRF Ranking 2018.
Claiming that the Ranking Frameworks are similar, the exact methodologies adopted by MHRD are domain specific. Apart from ranking all the colleges, institutes and universities overall, the Ranking methods have been worked out for 5 categories of institutions namely Engineering, Management, Pharmacy, Universities and Colleges.

NIRF Ranking 2018: Methodology
The National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) has been approved by the MHRD and was launched by Honourable Minister of Human Resource Development on September 29, 2015.
This is the third ranking released by MHRD. The methodology draws from the overall recommendations broad understanding arrived at by a Core Committee set up by MHRD, to identify the broad parameters for ranking various universities and institutions. The parameters broadly cover Teaching, Learning and Resources, Research and Professional Practices, Graduation Outcomes, Outreach and Inclusivity, and Perception.

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