IIT-Kharagpur Lost Out In Rankings Over Faculty-Student Ratio, Says Director

‘India Rankings 2016’ released by the Human Resource Development Ministry ranked IIT Kharagpur at Number 3. KOLKATA: The Indian Institute of Technology-Kharagpur, which came third in the Education Ministry’sranking of engineering institutes in the country, on Monday said it lost out mainly due to its faculty-student ratio. “We lost out primarily due to our faculty-student ratio as we were placed eighth in the list. We have 11,300-plus students, which is by far the largest. In all other areas, our performance was very close to the top,” IIT-Kharagpur Director Partha Pratim…

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