The paper attempts to rediscover some missing links between the ranking metrics of Higher Educational Institutions (HEIs) and their quality. Two global ranking frameworks, The Times Higher Education and Quacquarelli Symonds and the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) for Indian HEIs...

The paper estimates the teaching efficiencies of Indian Higher Educational Institutions (HEIs) using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) according to their location, ownership, courses they specialise in and age, using recent data published by National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF). We find...