Even as it retained the top position among the engineering colleges in the State, the National Institute of Technology Calicut (NIT-C) has slipped by several notches in the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) of the Ministry of Education.
Although the institute got a new director last year, the NIT-C could only secure a rank of 31 this assessment year. Last year, it had figured among the top 25 engineering colleges in the country even as it had slipped two slots from 2020. However, the overall score of NIT-C stood at 56.66, moderately better than 56.48 in 2021.
Despite the decline in ranking, NIT-C can take comfort that it is ahead of the seven-year-old Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Palakkad that entered the fray in the NIRF ranking for the first time and the Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology in Thiruvananthapuram. In the coming years, a fierce competition could be expected among these three institutes in the State under the Ministry of Education.
