New Delhi: The Ministry of Human Resource and Development on Monday released a list of top 10 educational institutions in the country under the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) – a first-of-its-kind indigenous ranking framework.

As per the NIRF list for engineering institutions, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras ranks first, followed by IIT Bombay and IIT Kharagpur. For management studies, Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Bangalore beats IIM Ahmedabad to rank number one.

Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani released the ‘India Rankings 2016’ on Monday at Vigyan Bhawan, The Hindu reported.

Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) and University of Hyderabad, recently involved in controversies, feature in the list at number 3 and number 4. Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, ranks first in the list of best universities in the country.

The institutions were ranked under four categories – engineering, management, pharmacy and universities and colleges. Under the pharmacy category, Manipal College of Pharmaceutical Sciences ranks number one in the country.

When the rankings framework was announced in November last, architecture was added as one of the categories, but since none of the top institutions participated in the rankings, the list was not unveiled.

This is the first time an exercise of compiling rankings of various institutions has been undertaken by the Union government. An independent agency, the National Bureau of Accreditation, working with the government, was responsible for validating the data submitted by the institutions.

Ms. Irani said the Ministry hoped to continue releasing rankings each year around April first week.

Here is the complete list:

Top 10 engineering institutes:

1. Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

2. Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

3. Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

4. Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

5. Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

6. Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee

7. Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad

8. Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar

9. Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar-Rupnagar

10. Indian Institute of Technology, Patna

Top 10 management institutes:

1. Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore

2. Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad

3. Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta

4. Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow

5. Indian Institute of Management, Udaipur

6. Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode

7. International Management Institute, New Delhi

8. Indian Institute of Forest Management, Bhopal

9. Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

10. Indian Institute of Management, Indore

Top 10 universities:

1. Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

2. Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai

3. Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

4. University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad

5. Tezpur University, Tezpur, Assam

6. University of Delhi, Delhi

7. Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi

8. Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, Thiruvanathapuram

9. Birla Institute of Technology and Science –Pilani

10. Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh

Top 10 pharmaceutical institutes:

1. Manipal College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Manipal

2. University institute of pharmaceutical sciences –Chandigarh

3. Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi

4. Poona College of Pharmacy, Erandwane, Pune

5. Institute of Pharmacy, Nirma University, Ahmedabad

6. Bombay College of Pharmacy, Mumbai

7. Birla Institute of technology, Ranchi

8. Amrita School of Pharmacy, Kochi

9. JSS college of Pharmacy, Ootacamund

10. JSS college of Pharmacy, Mysuru