IIT Bhubaneswar registers 9th in India Today-MDRA ranking

Surjit Kumar Dhal,BHUBANESWAR, MAY 22: Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bhubaneswar has been ranked ‘9th’ under Best Government Engineering College category for the year 2019, an official said.

The ranking has been undertaken by the Marketing and Development Research Associates (MDRA), which is a marketing research and consulting organization in India with focus on quantitative and qualitative research.

The parameters broadly cover “Intake quality & Governance,” “Academic Excellence,” “Infrastructure & Living Experience,” “Personality & Leadership Development,” and “Career Progression & Placement”, they said.

The ranking will be published in the weekly magazine India Today’s annual list of best engineering colleges in India in its the upcoming issue on May 27, 2019.

“At IIT Bhubaneswar, we have been rising the standards of the operations of the Institute in all fronts such as quality of education including learning, teaching, strengthening of research and fostering innovation towards providing holistic development of students and also are raising of improving quality faculty base including scaling up of the current infrastructure,” said Prof. R.V. Raja Kumar, Director, IIT Bhubaneswar,

It is indeed very satisfying to see the Institute’s position or rank is going up in all the ranking frameworks in the country as well as at global level, he said.

IIT Bhubaneswar scaled up to 9th position from 10th position in comparison to last year’s India Today-MDRA Ranking of Engineering Institutions. MDRA has evaluated colleges based on current year data.

According to the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) ranking, IIT Bhubaneswar (BBS) has been ranked 17th among all the engineering institutes of the country, overall 13th rank in India in Times Higher Education Asia University Rankings 2019 and overall 20th rank in India among the Times Higher Education Emerging Economies University Rankings 2019, the Director said.