The MHRD has released the NIRF Rankings 2020 for various categories, including College category, on June 11. The ranking list is topped by Miranda House, making it the fourth consecutive year the institute has topped the list since the NIRF started listing colleges in 2017. The second and third positions are occupied by Lady Shri Ram College For Women and Hindu College. Among the states, Tamil Nadu came out on top with 32 colleges in the top 100, followed by Delhi with 29 colleges, and Kerala with 20 colleges. These three states alone accounted for a staggering 81 colleges out of the 100 listed in the rankings.
NIRF Rankings 2020 – Top 100 Colleges
| Institute | NIRF Ranking 2020 | Score | NIRF Ranking 2019 | Score |
| Miranda House, Delhi | 1 | 77.23 | 1 | 73.72 |
| Lady Shriram College for Women, New Delhi | 2 | 72.08 | 5 | 66.71 |
| Hindu College, Delhi | 3 | 70.44 | 2 | 70.57 |
| St Stephens College, Delhi | 4 | 69.67 | 4 | 67.55 |
| Presidency College, Chennai | 5 | 68.89 | 3 | 68.01 |
| Loyola College, Chennai | 6 | 68.03 | 6 | 66.31 |
| St Xavier’s College, Kolkata | 7 | 67.59 | 10 | 64.5 |
| Ramakrishna Mission Vidyamandira, Howrah | 7 | 67.59 | 11 | 64.35 |
| Hansraj College, Delhi | 9 | 67.23 | 9 | 64.65 |
| PSGR Krishnammal College for Women, Coimbatore | 10 | 66.63 | 22 | 59.77 |
| Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Centenary College, Kolkata | 11 | 66.58 | 8 | 64.76 |
| Shri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi | 12 | 66.29 | 7 | 64.94 |
| Atma Ram Sanatan Dharma College, New Delhi | 13 | 66.15 | 14 | 63.55 |
| Sri Venkateswara College, Delhi | 14 | 66.04 | 19 | 61.28 |
| Deen Dayal Upadhyaya College, New Delhi | 15 | 65.32 | 16 | 62.66 |
| Gargi College, Delhi | 16 | 64.53 | 12 | 64.11 |
| Madras Christian College, Chennai | 17 | 64.36 | 13 | 63.98 |
| Acharya Narendra Dev College, New Delhi | 18 | 63.1 | 24 | 58.42 |
| Kirori Mal College, Delhi | 19 | 62.58 | 18 | 61.67 |
| Ramakrishna Mission Residential College, Kolkata | 20 | 62.36 | 15 | 63.53 |
| Dyal Singh College, New Delhi | 21 | 62.2 | 20 | 60.77 |
| Thiagarajar College, Madurai | 22 | 61.29 | 34 | 57.11 |
| University College, Thiruvananthapuram | 23 | 61.08 | 23 | 59.37 |
| PD Patel Institute of Applied Sciences, Anand | 24 | 61.01 | 26 | 58.29 |
| PSG College of Arts and Science, Coimbatore | 25 | 60.74 | 17 | 62.42 |
| Daulat Ram College, Delhi | 26 | 60.4 | 37 | 55.29 |
| Scott Christian College, Nagercoil | 27 | 59.98 | 30 | 57.69 |
| Rajagiri College of Social Sciences, Ernakulam | 28 | 59.36 | 35 | 55.38 |
| Sri Krishna Arts and Science College, Coimbatore | 29 | 58.56 | 53 | 52.73 |
| Sri Guru Tegh Bahadur Khalsa College, New Delhi | 30 | 58.35 | 28 | 57.94 |
| St Joseph’s College, Tiruchirappalli | 31 | 58.27 | 39 | 54.7 |
| Lady Irwin College, New Delhi | 32 | 58.25 | 21 | 60.53 |
| Madras School of Social Work, Chennai | 33 | 57.99 | 65 | 51.8 |
| Government Arts College, Coimbatore | 34 | 57.81 | 33 | 57.19 |
| Maitreyi College, New Delhi | 35 | 57.7 | 38 | 54.85 |
| Andhra Loyola College, Vijayawada | 36 | 57.64 | 45 | 53.77 |
| Jesus & Mary College, Delhi | 37 | 57.29 | 25 | 58.37 |
| Women’s Christian College, Chennai | 38 | 56.78 | 81 | 51.02 |
| Bishop Heber College, Tiruchirappalli | 39 | 56.65 | 44 | 53.89 |
| Government College for Women, Thiruvananthapuram | 40 | 56.56 | – | – |
| Queen Mary’s College, Chennai | 41 | 56.28 | 40 | 54.65 |
| Fergusson College, Pune | 42 | 56.04 | 27 | 58.1 |
| Indraprastha College for Women, Delhi | 43 | 55.9 | 46 | 53.19 |
| Kamala Nehru College, Delhi | 43 | 55.9 | 43 | 54 |
| Maharaja Agrasen College, Delhi | 45 | 55.88 | 47 | 53.03 |
| Ethiraj College for Women, Chennai | 46 | 55.76 | 36 | 55.3 |
| St Teresa’s College, Ernakulam | 47 | 55.6 | 64 | 51.94 |
| Mar Ivanios College, Nalanchira | 48 | 55.51 | 29 | 57.86 |
| IC College of Home Sciences, Hisar | 49 | 54.93 | – | – |
| St Xavier’s College, Palayamkottai | 50 | 54.91 | 74 | 51.26 |
| Shivaji College, Delhi | 51 | 54.76 | 54 | 52.7 |
| Lady Doak College, Madurai | 52 | 54.67 | 79 | 51.08 |
| Virudhunagar Hindu Nadars Senthikumara Nadar College, Virudhunagar | 53 | 54.63 | 63 | 52.14 |
| Jamal Mohamed College, Tiruchirappalli | 54 | 54.53 | 59 | 52.27 |
| Sacred Heart College, Kochi | 55 | 54.52 | 57 | 52.62 |
| Kanchi Mamunivar Centre for Postgraduate Studies, Puducherry | 56 | 54.38 | 49 | 52.93 |
| Shaheed Sukhdev College of Business Studies, Delhi | 57 | 54.11 | 70 | 51.33 |
| Ayya Nadar Janaki Ammal College, Virudhunagar | 58 | 53.94 | 51 | 52.81 |
| St Xavier’s College, Ahmedabad | 59 | 53.93 | 56 | 52.63 |
| St Joseph’s College, Devagiri | 60 | 53.82 | 82 | 50.94 |
| Ramanujan College, New Delhi | 61 | 53.73 | 100 | 49.03 |
| College of Social Work Nirmala Niketan, Mumbai | 62 | 53.66 | – | – |
| St Thomas College, Thrissur | 63 | 53.42 | 54 | 52.7 |
| Stella Maris College, Chennai | 64 | 53.36 | 58 | 52.57 |
| Sri Ramakrishna Mission Vidyalaya College of Arts and Science, Coimbatore | 65 | 53.32 | 59 | 52.27 |
| Holy Cross College, Tiruchirappalli | 66 | 53.27 | 85 | 50.17 |
| Shaheed Rajguru College of Applied Science for Women, Delhi | 67 | 53.22 | 31 | 57.57 |
| VO Chidambaram College, Tuticorin | 68 | 53.08 | 77 | 51.12 |
| Shyam Lal College, Delhi | 69 | 52.7 | 41 | 54.52 |
| Kongunadu Arts and Science College, Coimbatore | 70 | 52.68 | 51 | 52.81 |
| Sri Guru Gobind Singh College of Commerce, Delhi | 71 | 52.4 | 87 | 50.1 |
| St Joseph’s College of Commerce, Bangalore | 72 | 52.37 | 61 | 52.26 |
| St Francis College for Women, Hyderabad | 73 | 52.28 | 95 | 49.7 |
| Fatima College, Madurai | 74 | 52.2 | 94 | 49.75 |
| Loreto College, Kolkata | 75 | 52.17 | 76 | 51.19 |
| Bishop Moore College, Mavelikara | 76 | 52.04 | – | – |
| Keshav Mahavidyalaya, Delhi | 77 | 51.92 | 75 | 51.24 |
| Women’s Christian College, Nagercoil | 78 | 51.75 | 81 | 51.02 |
| St Berchmans College, Changanassery | 79 | 51.6 | – | – |
| Bishop Kurialacherry College For Women, Kottayam | 80 | 51.55 | – | – |
| Alagappa Government Arts College, Karaikudi | 80 | 51.55 | 84 | 50.41 |
| CMS College of Science and Commerce, Coimbatore | 82 | 51.49 | 86 | 50.13 |
| Government College, Kasaragod | 83 | 51.39 | – | – |
| Mar Thoma College, Tiruvalla | 84 | 51.37 | 92 | 49.79 |
| Dr NGP Arts and Science College, Coimbatore | 85 | 51.33 | 67 | 51.59 |
| Government Home Science College, Chandigarh | 86 | 51.28 | 72 | 51.27 |
| Vellalar College For Women, Thindal | 87 | 51.25 | 72 | 51.27 |
| Bethune College, Kolkata | 88 | 51.23 | 50 | 52.91 |
| Farook College, Kozhikode | 88 | 51.23 | 71 | 51.29 |
| Mahendra Arts and Science College, Namakkal | 90 | 51.14 | – | – |
| St Xaviers College, Mumbai | 90 | 51.14 | 86 | 49.34 |
| Mahatma Gandhi Government Arts College, Chalakkara | 92 | 50.89 | — | – |
| Mahatma Gandhi College, Trivandrum | 93 | 50.59 | 68 | 51.56 |
| Lady Brabourne College, Kolkata | 94 | 50.47 | – | – |
| Nehru Arts and Science College, Kanhangad | 95 | 50.46 | – | – |
| Deshbandhu College, New Delhi | 96 | 50.38 | – | – |
| St Alberts College, Ernakulam | 97 | 50.34 | – | – |
| Government Arts College, Thiruvananthapuram | 98 | 50.22 | 69 | 51.5 |
| Vimala College, Thrissur | 99 | 50.2 | – | – |
| Fatima Mata National College, Kollam | 100 | 50.13 | 83 | 50.68 |
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NIRF Ranking 2020 for College – Key takeaways
- Miranda House top college: It ranked number 1 for the fourth successive year. In fact, it has been topping the NIRF Rankings since College as a category was added in 2017.
- States with maximum representation: Tamil Nadu has 32 colleges in the top 100, followed by Delhi with 29, and Kerala with 20 colleges. These three states had a total of 81 colleges out of the top 100 colleges listed in NIRF 2020 rankings.
- Only 9 states and union territories represented: The top 100 colleges represent only 9 states and union territories. This means 27 states and union territories didn’t have a single college inside the top 100!
- The NE draws a blank: Not a single college from the North East found a place in the top 100, thus painting a very sad picture.
- Diversity goes on holiday: As far as quality college education is concerned, it is the same old story and there is clearly a division between regions, with a few pockets having access to the best colleges in the land while many others don’t have any college of repute.
NIRF Ranking 2020 – Parameters and Methodology for Law
| S. No | Parameters | Marks |
| 1 | Teaching, Learning & Resources (TLR) Ranking weight: 0.40 |
100 |
| Student Strength including Doctoral Students(SS): 20 marks Faculty-student ratio with emphasis on permanent faculty (FSR): 30 marks Combined metric for Faculty with PhD (or equivalent) and Experience (FQE): 20 marks Financial Resources and their Utilisation (FRU): 30 marks |
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| 2 | Research and Professional Practice (RP) Ranking weight: 0.15 |
100 |
| Combined metric for Publications (PU): 70 marks Combined metric for Quality of Publications (QP): 30 marks |
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| 3 | Graduation Outcomes (GO) Ranking weight: 0.25 |
100 |
| Combined metric for Placement and Higher Studies (GPH): 40 marks Metric for University Examinations (GUE): 40 marks Median Salary (GMS): 20 marks |
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| 4 | Outreach and Inclusivity (OI) Ranking weight: 0.10 |
100 |
| Percentage of Students from other States/Countries (Region Diversity RD): 30 marks Percentage of Women (Women Diversity WD): 30 marks Economically and Socially Challenged Students (ESCS): 20 marks Facilities for Physically Challenged Students (PCS): 20 marks |
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| 5 | Perception (PR)Ranking weight: 0.10 | 100 |
| A. Peer Perception: Employers & Academic Peer (PR): 100 marks |
NIRF 2020 ranking parameters and weightage
| S.No | Parameter | Marks | Weightage |
| 1 | Teaching, Learning & Resources | 100 | 0.4 |
| 2 | Research and Professional Practice | 100 | 0.15 |
| 3 | Graduation Outcomes | 100 | 0.25 |
| 4 | Outreach and Inclusivity | 100 | 0.1 |
| 5 | Perception | 100 | 0.1 |
