With the maximum number of institutes among the TOP 50 ranks of almost all categories, Tamil Nadu emerged as the leading state contributing in Indian Higher Education.
Tamil Nadu remains King in Engineering College list with 1/5th of top 100 engineering colleges in India.
According to the National Institute Ranking Framework (NIRF) rankings, 2020, Among the top 100 engineering colleges in the country, 18 are from Tamil Nadu.
The top education institution of the country is IIT Madras along with being the best engineering college in the country for the fifth time in a row.
National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli is the only other engineering college in the top 10 from Tamil Nadu, ranked 9.
Among the colleges rank, Tamil Nadu alone has one-third of the top 100 humanities, arts and science colleges in India.
In the 2019 ranking, there were 35 colleges from the state while this year 32 colleges are in the list out of a total of 100 colleges.
For the first time the Madras Medical College has figured among the top medical colleges and is ranked at 12.