The Indian Institute of Technology - Kharagpur, which came third in the HRD ministry's ranking 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 8th 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 Chakrabarti said in a Facebook post.
IIT - Madras was ranked the top engineering institute in India, followed by IIT - Bombay and IIT - Kharagpur.
"We must not only improve our faculty base but also make more effective use of our student strength as an asset for increasing our quality research output, " the director said.
Chakrabarti said the institute was in the top few in a variety of rankings in recent times and would try to improve further.
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