Last year, the university which dipped to 33rd rank had come under severe criticism for not producing enough research that made a difference.
However, this year, it secured the eighth rank.
Some of the measures taken to improve rankings was inviting more external agency funded schemes, quantitative increase in paper publications and increasing its recognition in the international scene.
The recently released rankings place TNAU eight among 67 agricultural institutes, fourth among state agricultural universities and the first among Southern Agricultural Universities. Until 2016, it always featured within the top seven ranks.
However, since then it dropped to 27th rank in 2017 and 33rd rank in 2018.
The top ranks were occupied by ICAR National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal and Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana and ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI) Delhi.
“A drop in the ranking affects the quantity of grants being released and general perception of the university”, admitted vice chancellor and professor, N Kumar.
The university since last year had introduced extensive monitoring to improve the university’s outlook and perception from various angles.
“Our teachers through rigorous coaching, guided students to acquire more junior and senior research fellowships, which is a key factor to raise our scores in the educational dimension. Our scientists took it as a challenge and put more effort to increase research publications and mobilised funds for the same through external agency funded projects,” said the vice chancellor.
Scientists were also motivated to file for more patents, evolve more varieties and participate in more extension programmes like radio talk, TV programmes and boosting the number of kisan cells.
The VC aims for the better ranking to lead to roping in of more international students who would promote students’ diversity.
“We hope this will also help us attract more funds and create more avenues for collaborative research and farmers’ empowerment,” he added.
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