NIRF Ranking 2025 Management Colleges: The National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) Rankings released, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM A) is the top business school in the country. MDI Gurgaon tops in the Private category swapping positions with XLRI – School of Management, Jamshedpur in the management category.

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NIRF 2025 Rankings Updates: This year’s rankings are released across 17 categories including overall, universities, colleges, research institutions, engineering, management, pharmacy, medical, dental, law, architecture and planning, agriculture and allied sectors, open universities, skill universities, state public universities and SDGs.

Among the top 10 MBA institutions in the NIRF India Rankings, seven are IIMs, joined by one IIT and two leading private business schools—MDI Gurgaon and XLRI Jamshedpur.

Management Development Institute (MDI) Gurgaon tops in the private management category. Overall Ranked 9. Here are the top 55 MBA Colleges of India based on overall rankings.

In the private MBA College category MDI, Gurgaon & SIBM Pune jumped by 2 places; ranking 9th position in 2025 from 11th in 2024 while Symbiosis Institute of Business Management (SIBM) Pune ranked 11th in 2025 from 13th in 2024.
SPJIMR maintained its 20th ranked
IMI Delhi maintained its 40th ranked
NMIMS Mumbai slipped by 3 places 21 to 24 in 2025
IMT Ghaziabad jumped by 5 places 35th to 30th in 2025
FORE School of Management slipped by 6 places 53 to 59 places in 2025
IFMR GSB, Krea University is out of Top 100 in NIRF 2025
Institute of Management Technology Nagpur (IMT Nagpur) slipped 68 places from 31 to 99
International Management Institute, Bhubaneswar slipped by 33 places from 61 to 94
T. A. Pai Management Institute, Manipal (TAPMI) jumped by 19 places from 58th in 2024 to 39th in 2025

Glitches in NIRF Ranking 2025 continues

UPES ranked above GLIM Gurgaon, XIM University, IMI Delhi, TAPMI Manipal
Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology – Management School, (Deemed-to-be-university) ranked above FORE School of Management, IIM Sirmaur, NIRMA University.
IFMR GSB, LBSIM Delhi, NIBM Pune not ranked in top 100 but NDIM Delhi, JIMS Rohini, BITS Mesra are found in the top 100.
Siksha `O` Anusandhan, is ranked above National Institute of Technology Calicut (NIT Calicut), Panjab University, Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur (IIT Jodhpur), IMT Nagpur

IIM Bodh Gaya climbs 20 ranks to be ranked 33 by NIRF in 2024

Overall Management Institution Rankings : IIM Ahmedabad is followed by IIM Bangalore, IIM Kozhikode and IIT Delhi at the second, third and 4th place— maintaining the positions from last year. No changes occurred in the first four rankings.

NIRF Rankings 2025 - in Private Management Category

Rank	Overall Rank	Name	City	State	Score
1	9	MDI G	Gurugram	Haryana	71.96
2	10	XLRI	Jamshedpur	Jharkhand	70.63
3	11	SIBM Pune	Pune	Maharashtra	67.9
4	20	SPJIMR	Mumbai	Maharashtra	62.06
5	24	NMIMS Mumbai	Mumbai	Maharashtra	60.99
6	26	Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham	Coimbatore	Tamil Nadu	60.25
7	30	IMT G	Ghaziabad	Uttar Pradesh	59.85
8	32	Chandigarh University	Mohali	Punjab	59.4
9	33	MICA	Ahmedabad	Gujarat	59.22
10	36	UPES	Dehradun	Uttarakhand	58.33
11	37	GLIM Chennai	Chennai	Tamil Nadu	58.05
12	39	TAPMI	Manipal	Karnataka	57.13
13	40	IMI Delhi	New Delhi	Delhi	56.59
14	41	Jaipuria Institute of Management, Noida	Noida	Uttar Pradesh	56.46
15	42	IMI Kolkata	Kolkata	West Bengal	55.42
16	43	GIM	Sanquelim	Goa	55.27
17	44	Lovely Professional University	Phagwara	Punjab	55
18	45	XIM University	Bhubaneswar	Odisha	54.73
19	46	IBS, Hyderabad	Hyderabad	Telangana	54.4
20	46	Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology	Patiala	Punjab	54.4
21	49	Amity University	Gautam Budh Nagar	Uttar Pradesh	54.15
22	50	Great Lakes Institute of Management	Gurgaon	Haryana	54.08
23	52	Graphic Era University	Dehradun	Uttarakhand	53.98
24	53	Nirma University	Ahmedabad	Gujarat	53.48
24	54	IRMA	Anand	Gujarat	53.34
26	55	LIBA	Chennai	Tamil Nadu	53.12
27	56	S.R.M. Institute of Science and Technology	Chennai	Tamil Nadu	52.74
28	57	Christ University	Bengaluru	Karnataka	52.47
29	59	Fore School of Management	New Delhi	Delhi	52.23
30	61	Birla Institute of Management Technology	Greater Noida	Uttar Pradesh	52.09
31	63	Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences	Chennai	Tamil Nadu	52.01
32	65	K.J.Somaiya Institute of Management	Mumbai	Maharashtra	51.28
33	66	Siksha `O` Anusandhan	Bhubaneswar	Odisha	50.88
34	67	Jaipuria Institute of Management, Lucknow	Lucknow	Uttar Pradesh	50.86
35	68	Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology	Bhubaneswar	Odisha	50.68
36	70	K L College of Engineering	Vaddeswaram	Andhra Pradesh	49.89
37	71	Alliance University	Bengaluru	Karnataka	49.85
38	72	IMT H	Hyderabad	Telangana	49.38
39	73	Jain university,Bangalore	Bengaluru	Karnataka	49.28
40	74	Jaipuria Institute of Management Jaipur	Jaipur	Rajasthan	49.26
41	75	WE School (PGDM)	Mumbai	Maharashtra	49.08
42	77	BML Munjal University	Gurgaon	Haryana	48.41
43	78	Chitkara University	Rajpura	Punjab	48.3
44	80	Thiagarajar School of Management	Madurai	Tamil Nadu	48.05
45	81	Manipal University Jaipur	Jaipur	Rajasthan	47.56
46	84	PSG College of Technology	Coimbatore	Tamil Nadu	47.38
46	86	New Delhi Institute of Management	New Delhi	Delhi	47.25
48	89	Pandit Deendayal Energy University	Gandhinagar	Gujarat	46.81
49	90	Jagan Institute of Management Studies	Delhi	Delhi	46.63
50	91	Rajagiri Business School	Cochin	Kerala	46.62
51	94	IMI Bhubaneswar	Bhubaneswar	Odisha	46.24
52	96	Bharathidasan Institute of Management	Tiruchirappalli	Tamil Nadu	45.36
53	97	Birla Institute of Technology	Ranchi	Jharkhand	45.25
54	99	Institute of Management Technology, Nagpur	Nagpur	Maharashtra	44.93