IIT-Kgp needs to strengthen faculty-student ratio: Director

Kolkata April 4 (IANS) The Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur which ranks third among engineering institutes after IIT Madras and IIT Bombay needs to strengthen its faculty-student ratio the institute s director said.

The ranking was conducted by the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) of the Union Human Resource Development Ministry.

NIRF India Rankings 2017: Engineering Rankings for the top 5 IITs remains same in 2017 as in 2016 with IIT-Kgp in the middle (3rd) after IITM and IITB IIT-Kgp Director P.P. Chakrabarti said in a Facebook post on Monday.

He pointed out that in the two new categories namely overall rankings across all categories IIT-Kgp is fourth after IISc IIT-M and IIT-B. In the category of Management IIT-Kgp is seventh after 5 IIMs and IITD.

Our main are in research outcome and graduation outcome which shows key value add of IIT-Kgp to both research community and student upbringing. However there is scope for further improvement Chakrabarti noted.

Our main comparative weakness lie in faculty-student ratio (we have the highest student strength) and general perception which though improved needs significant further strengthening he added.

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