Only five institutes offering engineering programmes from Telangana figured in the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) 2022 released by Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Friday.
IIT-Hyderabad topped the State securing 9th rank all over India followed by NIT Warangal (21st), IIIT-Hyderabad (62nd), JNTU Hyderabad (76th) and SR University Warangal (91st). However, 9 engineering institutes figured in the 101 to 200 rank band. They include VNRVJIET (113), OU College of Engineering (117), Anurag University (148), Mahindra University (154), Vardhaman College of Engineering (162), CBIT (166), CVR College of Engineering (170) and Vidya Jyothi Institute of Technology (200).
In the universities category, the University of Hyderabad occupied the 10th position and Osmania University the 22nd position. In the individual colleges’ category offering non-engineering courses, not a single college from Telangana found place in the top 100.
