Requirement of Student-Centric Presentations in NIRF

The popularity of National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) is increasing year after year. Ranking stimulates competition among institutions and helps improve quality or performance. Ultimately ranking of institutions will result in economic and social progress. It is time now to make NIRF results more user-friendly. Though NIRF simply states that it gives a ‘scorecard’ to stakeholders, it serves many purposes as follows: (1) Students can make informed decisions in selecting or short-listing institutions based on their ranks. (2) Government agencies prefer to provide autonomy and research grants based on ranks. (3) Companies prefer to recruit workforce from well-ranked institutions, and hence campus and other placements will be better for such institutions. (4) Faculty members prefer to work in wellranked institutions. (5) Institutions, being aware of their strengths and weaknesses, plan for improvements.