Panjab University, one of the oldest universities in India has been ranked among the top Universities in country by all the ranking agencies. It affiliates 194 colleges and 6 constituent colleges are spread over four districts of the state Punjab.

NIRF, in its recent rankings of 2022 has ranked the institute at 29th position in Research Category among top 50 universities in India. While it has successfully came ahead of its competitors like BITS Pilani, Alagappa University etc. Still, it has a long way to go up to reach at top place where IISc, Bangalore is placed. 

Another National Ranking agency, Outlook India has ranked the University at 30th place out of 100 Universitites. After fairing well in National Rankings, Punjab University has been ranked in slot of #601-800 by Times Higher Education Ranking and in rank range of #801-100 by QS World University Rankings.

Panjab University Ranking Highlights

Ranking Agency Year Ranked at
QS World University Ranking 2023 #1201-1400
NIRF (Research) 2022 29 out of 50
Outlook ICARE Ranking 2019 30 out of 100
Times Higher Education 2020 #601-800
QS World University Ranking 2020 #801-1000

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Panjab University NIRF Ranking 2022

The National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) was approved by the MHRD and launched by the Honourable Minister of Human Resource Development on 29th September 2015. The parameters broadly cover teaching, learning, and resources; research and professional practices, graduation outcomes, outreach and inclusivity, and perception.

“Panjab University has suffered a loss of 6 places in NIRF Research Ranking and attained the position of 29th out of 50 Universitites in India.”

Ranking Agency Year Ranked at
NIRF 2022 29
2021 23

This is how Panjab University scored in each of the parameters that NIRF considers for assigning ranks to Universities:

Panjab University Outlook ICARE Ranking

Panjab University has attained the 30th position out of 100 Universitites in India, just behind Aligarh Muslim University and Andhra University. The University is ahead of many famous universities like Tezpur University, Guhati University, Osmania University etc.

Institutions are awarded an overall rank depending on the number of points achieved through the evaluation in specific parameters. This has been designed with valuable feedback from the industry. 

Ranking Agency Year Ranked at
Outlook ICARE 2019 30 out of 100

The Outlook Rankings evaluate institutions based on parameters such as Faculty Student Ratio (FSR), Faculty with Ph.D. (FWP), Papers Per Faculty (PPF), Citations Per Paper (CPP) and Inclusiveness & Diversity (ID).

Reflecting the overall scores of few other Universitites in Outlook ICARE Rankings

Name of the Institute Rank Overall Outlook Score
University of Delhi 8 91.93
Jadavpur University 10 89.38
Anna University 13 85.90
Calcutta University 14 83.84
Banaras Hindu University 16 83.75
Jamia Millia University 17 82.28
Jawaharlal Nehru University 18 81.59
University of Hyderabad 19 81.02
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham 20 80.94
Savitribai Phule Pune University 21 80.65
Aligarh Muslim University 25 80.17
Panjab University 30 79.86

University of Delhi is the top entrant in the list, also it is the first among the universities of India apart from the IITs and IIMs, known for its excellence in academics.

Panjab University Times Higher Education (THE) Ranking

Panjab University has bagged the fifth position among Indian Universities and 166th position in Times Higher Education Emerging Economies Ranking 2020. Among Asian countries, it stands at 136th and in range of 600-800 in the world.

Ranking Agency Year Rank
Times Higher Education Ranking World University Ranking 601-800th
Asia University Ranking 136th
Emerging Economies 166th
In India 5th

The parameters that Times higher Education considers for preparing the rank lists are: Teaching, Industry Income, Citations, Research and International Outlook. Citation seemed to be the strongest point for Panjab University as it has scored a solid 50+ in this domain. Research is one region where Panjab University can work a lot on improving itself. Its performance in this criterion was below satisfactory as it managed to score less than 20 points. Its performance in the remaining domains of Research, Citations and Teaching were quite ordinary as its scores in these domains were in the range of 20 to 50. 

Below are the scores obtained by Panjab University in each of the considered parameters in a Graphical form :

Panjab University THE Scores

The Top Universities according to Times Higher Education Ranking are: 

Name of Universitites Rank THE Score
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham 601–800 28.3–35.2
Banaras Hindu University 601–800 28.3–35.2
University of Delhi 601–800 28.3–35.2
Jamia Millia Islamia 601–800 28.3–35.2
Jawaharlal Nehru University 601–800 28.3–35.2
Panjab University 601–800 28.3–35.2

Panjab University QS Rankings

QS World University Rankings is an annual publication of university rankings by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS). The QS system comprises the global overall and subject rankings alongside five independent regions (Asia, Latin America, Emerging Europe, and Central Asia, the Arab Region, and BRICS). 

“Panjab University has been ranked in the range of #801-1000 in QS World University Rankings as per the report of 2019. Its rank among Indian universities is quite impressive in the range of #51-55. In the BRICS QS Ranking, it is ranked at 195th position and in range of #291-300 among Asian Universities Ranking.”

This is how Panjab University has performed in the QS World Rankings over the years :

Ranking Agency Category Ranked at
QS World Rankings India #51-55
World #801-1000
BRICS #=195
 - Asian University Ranking #291-300

The criteria that are taken into consideration before calculating the overall score for a college in the QS World Rankings are: Academic Reputation, Employer Reputation, Faculty Student, Citations per Faculty and International Students.

Here is how Panjab University scored in each of the parameters :

Panjab University QS Parameter Score

Punjab University, entered into the list first time in year 2015, in range of #301-350 which  has fallen drastically in following years. 

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