Jalandhar NIT improves NIRF ranking to 52nd

Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, June 11

Three universities of Jalandhar have figured in the list of top institutes in the 2020 NIRF ranking declared by the HRD Ministry on Thursday.

A deemed university being run by the Centre, Dr BR Ambedkar National Institute of Technology (NIT), Jalandhar, has managed to get 52nd rank this year against 113th position last time. Likewise, the state government-run IK Gujral Punjab Technical University has got 104th rank among top 200 engineering institutes of the country.

Among private universities here, Lovely Professional University has got an overall university ranking of 78 among all the government and private universities of the country. The LPU is the only private university of Punjab to be among the top 100. The LPU School of Pharmacy has been ranked at 29; Management 49; and Engineering at 87.