St Xavier's College, Kolkata has been adjudged the fourth-best college and Calcutta University the fourth-best university in India in the education ministry's National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) rankings.
Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Thursday announced the sixth edition of the NIRF rankings.
IIM Calcutta retained its rank — third — among the B-Schools in the country.
Jadavpur University was ranked eighth in the country among universities and Ramakrishna Mission Vidyamandira, Howrah was ranked fifth among colleges.
In the last NIRF rankings, both St Xavier's and Calcutta University had been placed in the seventh position in their respective categories.
Jadavpur University had been ranked fifth in the varsity category last year, while Ramakrishna Mission Vidyamandira was at seventh position among colleges.
“Rankings are the measure of the quality and excellence of an institution. We must develop regional ranking frameworks and also work to ensure that our ranking framework emerges as a benchmark not only in the country, but also globally, especially for the developing economies,” Pradhan tweeted on Thursday.
"The New Education Policy (NEP) also provides us with an opportunity to internationalise our education system. We must work collectively to bring more and more institutions under our rankings framework and also establish India as a preferred global study destination," he added in another tweet.
The ranking framework evaluates institutions on five broad generic groups of parameters of Teaching, Learning and Resources, Research and Professional Practice, Graduation Outcomes, Outreach and Inclusivity, and Perception.
Ranks are assigned based on the total sum of marks assigned for each of these five broad groups of parameters.