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Government of India
Ministry of Human Resource Development
02-August-2019 18:17 IST
20 Institutionrecommended for status of ‘Institutions of Eminence’

The UGC, in its 542ndmeeting held on 02nd August 2019 has considered the reports of the Empowered Expert Committee
(EEC) appointed by Government under the Chairmanship of Shri N Gopalaswami recommending (15) Public institutions
and (15) Private institutions for considering to give status of Institutions of Eminence.

Since the scheme has only provided for (10) Public and (10) Private Institutions, the UGC has examined the list of (15)
Public and (15) Private Institutions using transparent and verifiable criteria.

The following were the principles used for identifying the (10) Public and (10) Private Institutions, from the list of (15)
Public and (15) Private Institutions recommended by the EEC:

a. Since the thrust of the scheme is to prepare institutions for the global rankings, no existing institution which has NOT
figured in any of the global/national ranks shall be recommended for the IoE status.
b. Only after exhausting the above criterion, if any slot remains vacant, consideration shall be given to 'yet to be
established (Greenfield)' proposals.

Public Institutions:

In accordance with the above principles, the UGC has ranked the list of (15) recommendations as per the QS-2020 World
Rankings. Wherever there is a tie, used theQS-2019 India Rankings as a tie-breaker.

Accordingly, the following are recommended for grant of IoE status:

World India
S
Institution Rankings Rankings Recommendation of UGC
No
(QS 2020) (QS 2019)

1 IIT Bombay (INI) 152 1 Already declared IoE

2 IIT Delhi (INI) 182 4 Already declared IoE

3 IISC Bangalore (Deemed Univ) 184 2 Already declared IoE

4 IIT Madras (INI) 271 3 Recommended for declaring as IoE

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World India
S
Institution Rankings Rankings Recommendation of UGC
No
(QS 2020) (QS 2019)

5 IIT Kharagpur (INI) 281 5 Recommended for declaring as IoE

6 Delhi University (Central Univ) 474 8 Recommended for declaring as IoE

University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad

7 601-650 7 Recommended for declaring as IoE
(Central Univ)

Jadavpur University, Kolkata (State Needs consultation with State Govt. prior
8 651-700 12
Univ) to consideration

Anna University, Chennai (State Needs consultation with State Govt. prior
9 751-800 13
Univ) to consideration

10 BHU, Varanasi (Central Univ) 801-1000 15 Recommended for declaring as IoE

Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune

11 801-1000 19
(State Univ)

12 AMU, Aligarh (Central Univ) 801-1000 33

13 Tezpur University (Central Univ) Not ranked 36

Panjab University, Chandigarh

14 Not ranked 49
(State/Central Univ)

Andhra University, Visakhapatnam

15 Not ranked 46
(State Univ)

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The State Universities: Jadavpur University and Anna Universitycan be considered for issue of the IoE status only after the
respective State Governments have issued an official communication allocating their share of the funds (up to 50%).

Private Institutions:

UGC has ranked the list of the (15) private institutions recommended by the EEC by taking their ranking in the QS India or
NIRF rankings, and NIRF ranking has been used as tie-breaker. In case there is any vacant slot after considering all the
ranked institutions, the same was used for 'yet to be set up (greenfield)' institution.

India Ranking

India
NIRF
S No Institute Rankings (QS UGC recommendation
2019)
2019 2018

Already selected and given Letter of

1 BITS Pilani, Rajasthan 17 23 17
Intent

Manipal Academy of Higher Already selected and given Letter of

2 26 09 11
Education Intent

Green Field
Jio Institute (Reliance Already selected and given Letter of
3
Foundation, Maharashtra) Intent
(yet to be established)

Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham,

4 40 8 8 Recommended for issue of LoI
Bangalore

5 VIT Vellore,Tami Nadu 44 19 16 Recommended for issue of LoI

6 Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi 51-55 18 23 Recommended for issue of LoI

Kalinga Instt. of Industrial

7 61-65 31 42 Recommended for issue of LoI
Technology, Bhubaneswar

O.P JINDAL University,

8 66-70 - - Recommended for issue of LoI
Haryana

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India Ranking
India
NIRF
S No Institute Rankings (QS UGC recommendation
2019)

2019 2018

Shiv Nadar University, Uttar

9 - 52 48 Recommended for issue of LoI
Pradesh

Greenfield
Bharti (Satya Bharti Recommended for issue of LoI in the
10
Foundation), Delhi vacant slot
(yet to be established)

Azim Premji University,

11 Not ranked, not considered
Bangalore

Ashoka University, Sonepat,

12 Not ranked, not considered
Haryana

KREA University (IFMR),

13 Not ranked, not considered
Chennai, Tamil Nadu

IIHS (Indian Institute for

14 Not ranked, not considered
Human Settlements), Bangalore

Indian Institute of Public

15 Not ranked, not considered
Health, Gandhinagar

In case of the private institutions proposed as Institutions of Eminence, there will be no financial support, but they will be
entitled for more autonomy as a special category Deemed University.

The Greenfield Institutions would get 3 year period to establish and operationalise the institution, and thereafter, EEC will
consider giving IoE status to such institutions.

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