Performance measurement model for ranking of educational institutes: a fuzzy reasoning approach

Abstract Ranking of educational institutes starts gaining a significant attention among all the stakeholders to know the comparative status of the institutes. This paper presents a comprehensive ranking framework based on fuzzy logic using multiple criteria proposed in National institutional ranking framework (NIRF). The proposed model presents a hierarchical structure of metrics proposed by NIRF to measure the performance attributes and then the overall performance of the institute. Mamdani fuzzy reasoning approach has been adopted to address the inexact causal relationship between the leading (input) and the lagging (output) metrics. Finally, the behaviour of the responses produced by the proposed model has been analyzed and also a comparative study has been conducted between National institutional ranking framework (NIRF) and rankings with proposed rankings system for various institutes.