NIRF Rankings 2025. National Institutional Ranking Framework Ranking 2016-2025

Updated as on Sep 04, 2025.  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.

Updated as on Aug 05, 2024.   NIRF Rankings 2024: The Ministry of Education is set to release the NIRF 2024 Rankings on August 12, 2024. The rankings will be accessible on the NIRF’s official website at nirfindia.org. The announcement is scheduled for 3 pm on Monday, August 12.

NIRF Rankings 2024 is set to be revealed on August 12th, 3 PM

According to the official website, “The framework provides a methodology to rank institutions across India. It is based on the comprehensive recommendations and understanding developed by a Core Committee established by MHRD. The ranking parameters encompass ‘Teaching, Learning and Resources,’ ‘Research and Professional Practices,’ ‘Graduation Outcomes,’ ‘Outreach and Inclusivity,’ and ‘Perception.’”

NIRF Rankling 2023: The Union Education Minister, Dharmendra Pradhan, will release the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) Rankings 2023 (June 5). The list will be available on the official website.

Top 100 B Schools – based on ‘Graduate Outcome’ scores and overall NIRF Ranking

NIRF Ranking 2023: The wait for one of the most awaited rankings of the year in the education sector in India is over with the 8th edition of NIRF Ranking 2023 getting released. Dr. Rajkumar Ranjan Singh, the Minister of State for Education and External Affairs has released the ranking.

IIT Madras and VIT Vellore (in private category) are consistent performers in all aspects for the past 5 years.

NIRF Ranking, which started in 2016 with 4 categories : Management, Engineering, University and Pharmacy, now in its 8th edition has 13 categories in 2023. It started with and now in 2023 8686 institutions participated.

NIRF India Ranking 2022: Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT M) once again top sin overall Rankings 2022, followed by Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore, the latest edition of the Education Ministry’s NIRF rankings show. IIT Madras has retained its top position, so has IISc maintained its place. IIT Madras also tops in Engineering Category, IIM Ahmedabad tops again in Management Category. This year NIRF Rankings 2022 out on July 15, 2022.

NIRF Ranking 2022: VIT Ranks on tops once again Engineering

Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Thursday, Sep 9, released the NIRF Rankings 2021. The Rankings have been released under various categories, including, Engineering, Pharmacy, Management, Overall, Research etc.

NIRF Ranking 2021: National Institutional Ranking Framework, NIRF Rankings 2021 would be e-released on September 9. Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan would announce the list of Top Universities, Colleges and other Educational Institutions of the country through a virtual event which would be webcast at 12:30 pm on nirfindia.org.

NIRF Rankings 2021 for Indian universities announced soon. The National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) India Rankings 2021 were delayed this year due to Covid-19 crisis. The NIRF ranking is an initiative by the Ministry of Human Resource Department, Government of India, (MHRD) and launched by Hon. Minister of Human Resource Development on 29th Sep 2015 for the first time. Despite the flaws it had, it has become the most talked about and sought after ranking in India.

NIRF Ranking 2022. IIT Madras Tops on Overall Category Again

According to Prof. Dileep N. Malkhede, Adviser at AICTE, the ranking which was initially an experiment has been evolving from time to time in the past few years with further upgrades in formats and parameters coming up. NIRF triggered off a competition among Indian academia and every Indian institution is striving to be ranked in top 100.

NIRF Rankings: IIM Ahmedabad tops in Management Category

The framework outlines a methodology to draw from the overall recommendations broad understanding arrived at by a Core Committee set up by MHRD, to identify the parameters for ranking various universities and institutions.

Top 20 Private B Schools as per NIRF Ranking . XLRI Tops Again

The parameters are 1) Teaching, Learning and Resources 2) Research and Professional Practices 3) Graduation Outcomes 4) Outreach and Inclusivity & 5) Perception.

NIRF Rankings 2021 Management: IIM A tops Again

First time NIRF Ranking  2016 is released in only 4 categories. Categories are Universities, Engineering, Management & Pharmacy in 2019 NIRF Ranking released in 9 Category Overall, Universities, Engineering, Management, College, Law, Architecture, and Medical & Pharmacy. Release of India Rankings 2022 on 15th July 2022 at 11 am by Honorable Union Minister of Education, Shri Dharmendra Pradhan. 

Top 10 Business Schools – NIRF Ranking

Top 10 Engineering Colleges – NIRF Rankings 2025

Top 10 Universities NIRF Ranking

Top 10 Overall by NIRF Rankings

This framework outlines a methodology to rank institutions across the country. The methodology draws from the overall recommendations broad understanding arrived at by a Core Committee set up by MHRD, to identify the broad parameters for ranking various universities and institutions. The parameters broadly cover “Teaching, Learning and Resources,” “Research and Professional Practices,” “Graduation Outcomes,” “Outreach and Inclusivity,” and “Perception”.