Why is DTU ranked so low in the NIRF?

DTU, earlier known as DCE, has a rather obsolete curriculum and pedagogy. Despite that, it invites more than 450 recruiters every year. These companies are well aware of the excellent coding culture at DTU showcased through the student's online presence on top sites like HackerRank/HackerEarth/Codechef. So if you are a coding lover, DTU has opportunities at par with top institutes like IIITH, IITB, and BITS Pilani.

However, rankings are done on various aspects including GO. Considering all the branches of DTU, it rightly deserves to be among the top ten due to its location. 

But NIRF ranks it poorly as it considers a variety of parameters like:

• TLR, Teaching, Learning, and Resources: DTU has very few approachable faculties thereby bringing down the ratings
• RPP, Research and Professional Practice: Recently, DTU has received funding so it’s slowly improving its research culture which earlier was non-existent.
• GO, Graduation Outcomes: DTU has a good graduation outcome almost comparable to IIT Bombay.
• OI, Outreach, and Inclusivity: This brought down the rankings miserably. 

So we can conclude that NIRF rankings are based on useless criteria and shouldn’t be considered to evaluate colleges worth and credibility.