TN on top: Whopping 37 Colleges in Tamil Nadu among India's best colleges in MHRD's NIRF rankings

An astonishing number of colleges from Tamil Nadu have been rated amongst the 100 best colleges across India. Tamil Nadu now has 37 of the top-ranked colleges in the country according to the MHRD's National Institutional Ranking Framework that was released on Monday. Last year too, Tamil Nadu ranked among the top states to have one of the largest concentration of quality educational institutions in the country.

Bishop Heber College, Tiruchy

At the top of the list were Loyola College and WCC that came in second and tenth while Bishop Heber College in Tiruchirapalli came it at number four. The other colleges from the state capital that made the list are Madras Christian College at 12, Ethiraj College for Women (16),  Justice Basheer Ahmed Sayeed College for Women (47),  Shri Shankarlal Sundarbai Shasun Jain College for Women (59)  Meenakshi College for Women(59) and Srimathi DN Bhat Vaishnav College for Women (62). SRM College, however only found a place at 82 this time around.

Women's Christian College

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Beating Chennai, Coimbatore had almost double the number of colleges on the list, with four ranking in the top 22- P.S.G. College of Arts & Science (11), P.S.G.R. Krishnammal College for Women (14), Kongunadu Arts & Science College (19), Sri Krishna Arts and Science College (22), Dr NGP Arts and Science College (44), Nirmala College for Women (65), Rathinam College of Arts and Science (66), Sri Ramakrishna College of Arts & Science for Women (68), SNR Sons College (69), Hindusthan College of Arts and Science (75).

Loyola College

Besides Bishop Heber College, two other colleges from Tiruchirapalli made the list- Holy Cross College (26) and National College (97). Ayya Nadar Janaki Ammal College from Virudhnagar came in at 13 while three other colleges from the city also made their way to the list — VV Vanniaperumal College for Women (38), Virudhunagar Hindu Nadars Senthikumara Nadar College (39) and Saiva Bhanu Kshatriya College (56).

Three Namakkal Colleges — Mahendra Arts & Science College (67), K.S.R. College of Arts and Science for Women (76) and Muthayammal College of Arts & Science (86) found mention. Only one college from Madurai, Fatima College was ranked at 27 this year.

Here are the top 100 colleges according to NIRF

1. Miranda House, New Delhi
2. Loyola College, Chennai, Tamil Nadu
3. Shri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi, Delhi
4. Bishop Heber College, Tiruchirapalli, Tamil Nadu
5. Atma Ram Sanatan Dharma College, New Delhi, Delhi
6. St. Xavier`s College, Kolkata, West Bengal
7. Lady Shri Ram College for Women, New Delhi, Delhi
8. Dyal Singh College, New Delhi, Delhi
9. Deen Dayal Upadhyaya College, New Delhi, Delhi
10. The Women's Christian College, Chennai, Tamil Nadu
11. P.S.G. College of Arts & Science, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu
12. Madras Christian College, Kancheepuram, Tamil Nadu
13. Ayya Nadar Janaki Ammal College, Virudhnagar, Tamil Nadu
14. P.S.G.R. Krishnammal College for Women, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu
15. Keshav Mahavidyalya, Delhi, Delhi
16. Ethiraj College for Women, Chennai, Tamil Nadu
17. Christ College (Autonomous), Thrissur, Kerala
18. Loreto College, Calcutta-16, West Bengal
19. Kongunadu Arts & Science College, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu
20. Acharya Narendra Dev College, Kalkaji, Delhi
21. AU College of Science and Technology, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh
22. Sri Krishna Arts and Science College, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu
23. AU College of Arts and Commerce, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh
24. Andhra Loyola College, Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh
25. Rajagiri College of Social Sciences, Dist. Ernakulam, Kerala
26. Holy Cross College, District Tiruchirapalli, Tamil Nadu
27. Fatima College (Autonomous), Madurai, Tamil Nadu
28. Sacred Heart College, Dist. Ernakulam, Kerala
29. St. Joseph`s College of Commerce, Bengaluru, Karnataka
30. Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Information Technology and Biotechnology (RGIITBT), Pune, Maharashtra
31. St. Joseph's College, Dist. Calicut, Kerala
32. Post Graduate Government College for Girls, Chandigarh, Chandigarh    
33. Ramanujan College, Kalkaji, Delhi
34. Shaheed Bhagat Singh College (Evening Classes), New Delhi, Delhi
35. Fergusson College, Dist. Pune, Maharashtra
36. Degree College of Physical Education, Dist. Amravati, Maharashtra    
37. Shri M.V. & Smt. N.V. Virani Science College, Dist. Rajkot, Gujarat    
38. V.V. Vanniaperumal College for Women, District Virudhnagar, Tamil Nadu    
39. Virudhunagar Hindu Nadars Senthikumara Nadar College, District Virudhnagar, Tamil Nadu
40. St. Xavier's College, Mumbai, Maharashtra
41. Goswami Ganesh Dutta S.D. College, Sector 32 Chandigarh, Chandigarh    
42. St. Joseph's College, Dist. Trichur, Kerala
43. A.V.C. College-District Quaide-E-Milleth, District Quaide-E-Milleth, Tamil Nadu
44. Dr. N.G.P. Arts & Science College, District Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu    
45. St Aloysius College (Autonomous), Mangalore, Karnataka    
46. Sri Guru Nanak Dev Khalsa College, New Delhi, Delhi
47. Justice Baseer Ahmed Sayeed College for Women, Chennai, Tamil Nadu    
48. Mercy College, Dist. Palakkad, Kerala
49. Little Flower College, District Trichur, Kerala    
50. K.S. Rangaswamy College of Arts and Science, Tiruchengode, Tamil Nadu    
51. MES Keveeyam College, Valanchary, Kerala
52. Vimla College, Dist. Trichur, Kerala
53. Government College of Arts, Science and Commerce Quepem, Quepem, Goa    
54. Holy Cross College, District Kanyakumari, Tamil Nadu
55. St. Mary's College, Dist. Trichur, Kerala    42.72    55
56. Saiva Bhanu Kshatriya College, District Virudhnagar, Tamil Nadu
57. Gobi Arts and Science College-Karattatipalayam Post, Karattatipalayam Post, Tamil Nadu
58. Vivekanand College, Kolhapur, Maharashtra
59. Shri Shankarlal Sundarbai Shasun Jain College for Women, Chennai, Tamil Nadu
60. Meenakshi College for Women, District Chennai, Tamil Nadu
61. Vitthalbhai Patel and Rajrathan, P.T. Patel Science College, Dist. Anand, Gujarat
62. Srimathi D.N. Bhat Vaishnav College for Women, District Kancheepuram, Tamil Nadu
63. Kongu Arts & Science College, District Erode, Tamil Nadu
64. J.B. College, District Jorhat, Assam
65. Nirmala College for Women, District Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu
66. Rathinam College of Arts and Science, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu
67. Mahendra Arts & Science College, Namakkal, Tamil Nadu
68. Sri Ramakrishna College of Arts & Science for Women, District Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu
69. SNR Sons College,, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu
70. St. Teresa's College, Dist. Ernakula, Kerala
71. Sri D. Manjunatheswara College, Dist. Dakshin Kannad, Karnataka
72. Nanded Education Society`s Science College, Nanded, Maharashtra
73. Mannam Memroial N.S.S. College, Kollam, Kerala
74. Mehr Chand Mahajan D.A.V. College for Women, Sector-36, Chandigarh, Chandigarh
75. Hindusthan College of Arts and Science, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu
76. K.S.R. College of Arts and Science for Women, Namakkal, Tamil Nadu
77. Bahauddin Govt. Science College, Dist. Junagadh, Gujarat
78. Rama Krishna Mission Vivekananda Centenary College, Rahara, West Bengal
79. S.D.M.S.M. Kalasala, District Krishna, Andhra Pradesh
80. Dr.V.S.Krishna Govt. Degree College, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh
81. Symbiosis College of Arts and Commerce, Pune, Maharashtra
82. S R M College of Arts and Science, Potheri, Tamil Nadu
83. Sai College of Computer Education, Dist. Osmanabad, Maharashtra
84. Assumption College, Dist. Kottayam, Kerala
85. Gayatri Vidya Parishad College for Degree and P.G Courses (Autonomous), District Visakapatnam, Andhra Pradesh
86. Muthayammal College of Arts & Science, Namakkal, Tamil Nadu
87. St. Josephs College for Women, (Autonomous), Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh
88. Jankidevi Bajaj College of Science, District Wardha, Maharashtra
89. P.C. Jabin Science College, Dist. Dharwad, Karnataka
90. Govt. College, District Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh
91. Nirmala College, Dist. Ernakulam, Kerala
92. K.B.N. College, District Krishna, Andhra Pradesh
93. V.S.M. College, Ramachandrapuram, Andhra Pradesh
94. J.G. College of Commerce, Hubli, Dist. Dharwad, Karnataka
95. Sacred Heart College (Autonomous), Tirupattur, Tamil Nadu
96. Presidency College, Bengaluru, Karnataka
97. National College, District Tiruchirapalli, Tamil Nadu
98. Raja Narendralal Khan Women's College, District Midnapore, West Bengal
99. Bharti Vidyapeeth`s Matoshri Bayabai Shripatrao Kadam Kanya Mahavidyalaya, Dist. Sangli, Maharashtra
100. Thanthai Hans Roever College, Perambalur, Tamil Nadu