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Below are the NIRF perception rankings. Is it possible that positive publicity in the mainstream media, a strong social media presence and good PR are responsible for a higher ranking? Or is it based on employee perception and perception among fellow academics?

1. NLSIU: 100/100
2. NALSAR: 70.96/100
3. NLUD: 65.36/100
4. ILI Delhi: 60.60/100
5. NUJS: 57.9/100
6. Christ University: 49.04/100
7. NLUJ 44.35/100
8. BHU: 41.79/100
9. IIT Kharagpur: 39.07/100
10. NLIU: 39.07/100
Joint 11. GNLU: 36.15/100; RMLNLU: 36.15/100; Symbiosis Pune:36.15/100
Joint 14: Jamia: 33.01/100 and AMU: 33.01/100
16. RGNUL: 29.62/100
17. Punjab University: 25.93/100
18. NLU Assam: 21.88
19. KIIT: 12.36/100
I have personally find the "perception rankings" to be the most dubious criterion of all. There is absolutely no objective metric to ascertain them nor is there any way to contest or verify the veracity of these rankings. Just take for example NUJS and NLUD, NUJS is a much older institute, with the CJI as the chancellor and arguably the best placement record of all NLUs (please don't start a debate over this), still it's almost 8 points behind NLUD which is much newer and yet to establish a bigger almuni base. So i don't think "fellow academics" and their opinion is influencing these. If you start talking about Moots etc. Even in those NUJS and NLUD are neck to neck, one of them won the Willem C. vis moot and the other Oxford.
Let's not even get started with NLSIU and NALSAR, NLSIU somehow has a full score on a seemingly subjective criterion, which in itself is a very questionable score and the next in line NALSAR is 29 points behind NLSIU.
And coming to the lower rankings, Christ University is ahead of NLUJ and NLIU, this has to be the most bizarre of all. How can institutes which are so hard to get into, with admission based on extremely competitive entrance exam be behind Christ University (not even taking into account the placements, popularity and accomplishments of these tier 1 NLUs).
The most significant impact of these scores is that they have the highest maximum score of 100 and these scores greatly impact the overall NIRF rankings.
This criterion either needs to be scrapped or reduced in weightage, moreover, NIRF needs to provide details for increasing or lowering these scores, so that these institutions get to know what to work on for improvement in the future.
Perception score is equivalent to the Management Quota insofar as NIRF is concerned.
Ghanta reasonable criteria! It mostly sends questionnaires to academics asking them of their opinion of other institutes. So if you have a teacher who has contacts with other academics, then you can ask that person to pester his contacts to give his institute a good review. In fact, the institute can 'recommend' a list of such academics to QS out of whom some names would be selected at random for sending such questionnaires. That's why JGLS requires most of its young recruits (the LLM freshers for instance) to provide 3-5 names of foreign academics whom they might know personally. If you don't believe me, ask some of those people currently teaching at JGLS.