While rankings aim to benchmark the performance of Higher Education Institutions (HEIs), concerns remain about whether current ranking frameworks reflect the broader goals of education. Suggest measures to make the ranking system more objective, inclusive, and aligned with educational and societal outcomes.

World QS Ranking system, 2025 had about 80 Indian educational institutions among top 500 as against earlier 2014 report where only 7 institutions were there. Various ranking systems in India is NIRF ranking, AICTE ranking, ICDBE ranking Concerns about ranking framework: (1) Lack of focus on diversity in institutions about major focus on students in total - women (2) Less undergraduate metric on measurably and its outcomes and more on infrastructure (3) Subjectivity no post filled by few students & teachers (4) Ranking CNIRP based on outcomes like placements but not on teacher attendance & teacher education/qualifications

by quality education (8) Learning outcomes as metric measures through Researched outcome - IPR rather than infrastructure only (4) aligned with educational & social outcomes (1) Curriculum analysis of based on market need - then better (2) Women representation in HER to represent social equity (3) Industry academic linkage with HER - to depict fitter by enjoys with RVCE (9) Foreign standards match by an educational levels by FoE, VdJRA scheme Way Forward HEIs with good draining should act as Buddy mentor institution for other smaller HEIs