The premium Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur has yet again shown its mettle and ranked first in the ‘Innovation’ category of National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF), 2023.  

With as many as 109 IPRs (Intellectual Property Rights) filed in 2022 and 950 total IPRs filed till date, IIT Kanpur boosts a remarkable translational rate of 13.68%. In overall NIRF ranking, IIT Kanpur stood at 5th position with 77.23 score.

Launched by the Minister for Education on September 29, 2015, The National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) outlines a methodology to rank institutions across the country.

The ranking framework judges institutions under five broad generic groups of parameters from Teaching Learning and Resources (TLR), Research and Professional Practice (RP), Graduation Outcomes (GO), Outreach and Inclusivity (OI) to Perception (PR). Ranks are assigned based on the total sum of marks assigned for each of these five broad groups of parameters.

NIRF plays a significant role for students, as universities with higher NIRF ranking are better equipped to handle young minds.