{"id":819,"date":"2020-06-11T12:15:25","date_gmt":"2020-06-11T12:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/utkalaage.in\/?p=819"},"modified":"2020-06-11T12:15:28","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T12:15:28","slug":"nirf-rankings-soa-placed-among-top-20-universities-in-the-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/utkalaage.in\/?p=819","title":{"rendered":"NIRF RANKINGS: SOA PLACED AMONG TOP 20 UNIVERSITIES IN THE COUNTRY"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Siksha \u2018O\u2019 Anusandhan Deemed to be University here jumped\nfour spots to be ranked among the top 20 universities in the country as the\nrankings in the different categories by the National Institutional Ranking\nFramework (NIRF)&nbsp; for 2020 were announced\nby the Union minister for Human Resource Development Dr. Ramesh Pokhriyal\n\u2018Nishank\u2019 on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; SOA, as the Deemed to be University\nis known, has been placed 20<sup>th<\/sup> in this year\u2019s ranking in the university\ncategory and 38<sup>th <\/sup>among overall institutions in the country as per\nthe list released by Dr. Pokhriyal in a video conference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/utkalaage.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/2-2-1024x480.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"822\" data-link=\"http:\/\/utkalaage.in\/?attachment_id=822\" class=\"wp-image-822\" srcset=\"https:\/\/utkalaage.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/2-2-1024x480.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/utkalaage.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/2-2-300x141.jpg 300w, https:\/\/utkalaage.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/2-2-768x360.jpg 768w, https:\/\/utkalaage.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/2-2.jpg 1176w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; With this, SOA, which was conferred\nwith the status of a Deemed to be University by the University Grants\nCommission (UGC) in 2017, remained the top institution in the university\ncategory in Odisha for the fifth consecutive year obtaining a score of 53.10\nthis year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; After the NIRF rankings were\nintroduced in 2016, SOA has finished among the top 20 universities in the\ncountry for the third time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In the Engineering category, SOA was\nranked 34<sup>th<\/sup> while in the category for Medical Colleges it was placed\n23<sup>rd<\/sup> in the country this year. SOA\u2019s faculty of dental sciences, which\nentered the ranking process for the first time this year, has been nationally\nranked 12<sup>th<\/sup>. As per the new ranking for 2020, the faculties of the\nuniversity\u2019s medical sciences and dental sciences are the top ranked such\ninstitutions in Odisha.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Institute of Technical Education and\nResearch (ITER) is SOA\u2019s faculty of engineering and technology while Institute\nof Medical Sciences (IMS) and SUM Hospital and Institute of Dental Sciences\n(IDS) are the Deemed to be University\u2019s faculty of medical and dental sciences\nrespectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"821\" height=\"553\" src=\"http:\/\/utkalaage.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/3.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"823\" data-link=\"http:\/\/utkalaage.in\/?attachment_id=823\" class=\"wp-image-823\" srcset=\"https:\/\/utkalaage.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/3.jpg 821w, https:\/\/utkalaage.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/3-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/utkalaage.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/3-768x517.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 821px) 100vw, 821px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Expressing his happiness over the\nprogress made by the university, SOA Vice-Chancellor Prof. Ashok Kumar\nMohapatra said the success was the result of the hard work put in by the\nfaculties, researchers and other stakeholders. \u201cI hope all concerned will strive\neven harder to help SOA rise in the ranking ladder next year,\u201d he said adding\nthe university has come to be known as one of the finest in the country today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cThe improvement in ranking will\ncertainly motivate all staff members of SOA to achieve greater things in\nfuture. I congratulate each of them for this success,\u201d Prof. Manojranjan Nayak,\nfounder President of SOA, said.\n\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Nine\ndifferent institutions function under the SOA umbrella offering 95 academic\nprogrammes in engineering and technology, medical sciences, dental sciences,\nmanagement sciences, hospital administration, pharmaceutical sciences,\nbiotechnology, nursing, hospitality and tourism management, legal studies and\nagricultural sciences. Around 12,000 students including from six different\ncountries study in the university.\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Siksha \u2018O\u2019 Anusandhan Deemed to be University here jumped four spots to be ranked among the top 20 universities in the country as the rankings in the different categories by the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF)&nbsp; for 2020 were announced by the Union minister for Human Resource Development Dr. Ramesh Pokhriyal \u2018Nishank\u2019 on Thursday. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":821,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/utkalaage.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/utkalaage.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/utkalaage.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utkalaage.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utkalaage.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/utkalaage.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":824,"href":"https:\/\/utkalaage.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819\/revisions\/824"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utkalaage.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/utkalaage.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utkalaage.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utkalaage.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}