For the first time in five years, the National Institution of Rourkela (NIT Rourkela) secured 8 position under the National Institutional Ranking Framework's (NIRF) Architecture category 2023. The Rourkela-based institute is the only educational institution to be under the top 10 category. However, analysing the institute's positions in global and national ranking, it has so far seen a downward trend. In the QS World university rankings 2023, the institute ranked 67 in southern Asia. NIT Rourkela Global Ranking QS World Ranking 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 Asian University Ranking 291-300 281-290 271-280 250 225 Sustainability Ranking 676 601-650 — — — Inspected in 1961, the institute has also received the global position in Times Higher Education Ranking within a bandwidth of 601- 800 for 2024. With 21 academic departments, offering specialised courses at undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral levels of studies, the institute offers major in various disciplines of engineering, architecture, science, humanities and management among others. Additionally, it also offers distinct programmes such as BTech in food process engineering, biotechnology and medical engineering, ceramic engineering as well as bachelor of architecture to meet the demands of contemporary times in accordance with National Education policy. NIT Rourkela Domestic Ranking in NIRF NIRF Category 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 National Ranking Overall 37 39 41 32 38 National Ranking Engineering 16 15 20 16 16 National Ranking Architecture 8 – – – – National Ranking Research 29 24 31 – – Observing the trend under overall category, the Institute has shown steady increase since 2021. In 2021, the institute secured 41 rank followed by 39 rank and 37 position. Under engineering category, the technology institute has remained within the bracket of top 20 with 16 position securing the most. The Institute declined by 5 points in research and decreased by a one rank and reached 16 position for engineering category, even though its score for NIRF domestic has been increased since the past five years. In 2022, the Rourkela institute had secured 24 position which dropped by 2023.
