Top 100 Engineering Colleges in India by NIRF Ranking : The ranking is based on rankings published by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) Ranking, developed by the National Institute Ranking Framework (NIRF) Ranking 2025. Check out the top 100 engineering colleges in India by NIRF Rankings 2025.
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The NIRF 2025 Engineering Rankings were officially released by the Ministry of Education on September 4 in New Delhi, spotlighting India’s top engineering institutions. For the 10th consecutive year, IIT Madras being at top position, reaffirming its dominance in technical education, followed by IIT Delhi at 2nd and IIT Bombay at 3rd.
With new and newer IITs and NITs, India now have 23 IITs and 31 NITs. The 6 new IITs which opened campus in the past 2 – 3 years in cities include Jammu, Tirupati (Andhra Pradesh), Palakkad (Kerala), Goa, Dharward (Karnataka) and Bhilai (Chhattisgarh).
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For your ready reference, Campusutra has listed the IITs and NITs with respective seats available category and program wise along with JEE Main and Advanced Cut off trends. Check out engineering colleges 2021 in India fees and rank.
Top 100 Engineering Colleges in India
| Rank | Name | City | State | Score |
| 1 | IIT Madras | Chennai | Tamil Nadu | 88.72 |
| 2 | IIT Delhi | New Delhi | Delhi | 85.74 |
| 3 | IIT Bombay | Mumbai | Maharashtra | 83.65 |
| 4 | IIT Kanpur | Kanpur | Uttar Pradesh | 81.82 |
| 5 | IIT Kharagpur | Kharagpur | West Bengal | 78.69 |
| 6 | IIT Roorkee | Roorkee | Uttarakhand | 75.44 |
| 7 | IIT Hyderabad | Hyderabad | Telangana | 72.31 |
| 8 | IIT Guwahati | Guwahati | Assam | 72.24 |
| 9 | NIT Tiruchirappalli | Tiruchirappalli | Tamil Nadu | 68.14 |
| 10 | IIT (Banaras Hindu University) Varanasi | Varanasi | Uttar Pradesh | 67.24 |
| 11 | Birla Institute of Technology & Science -Pilani | Pilani | Rajasthan | 67.02 |
| 12 | IIT Indore | Indore | Madhya Pradesh | 66.65 |
| 13 | NIT Rourkela | Rourkela | Odisha | 66.62 |
| 14 | S.R.M. Institute of Science and Technology | Chennai | Tamil Nadu | 65.83 |
| 15 | IIT (Indian School of Mines) | Dhanbad | Jharkhand | 65.37 |
| 16 | Vellore Institute of Technology | Vellore | Tamil Nadu | 65.25 |
| 17 | NIT Karnataka, Surathkal | Surathkal | Karnataka | 64.59 |
| 18 | Jadavpur University | Kolkata | West Bengal | 64.54 |
| 19 | IIT Patna | Patna | Bihar | 64.52 |
| 20 | Anna University | Chennai | Tamil Nadu | 63.51 |
| 21 | NIT Calicut | Kozhikode | Kerala | 63.05 |
| 22 | Siksha `O` Anusandhan | Bhubaneswar | Odisha | 62.58 |
| 23 | Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham | Coimbatore | Tamil Nadu | 62.46 |
| 24 | Jamia Millia Islamia | New Delhi | Delhi | 62.42 |
| 25 | IIT Gandhinagar | Gandhinagar | Gujarat | 62.31 |
| 26 | IIT Mandi | Mandi | Himachal Pradesh | 62.08 |
| 27 | IIT Jodhpur | Jodhpur | Rajasthan | 61.31 |
| 28 | NIT Warangal | Warangal | Telangana | 61.05 |
| 29 | Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology | Patiala | Punjab | 60.97 |
| 30 | Delhi Technological University | New Delhi | Delhi | 60.85 |
| 31 | Chandigarh University | Mohali | Punjab | 60.46 |
| 32 | IIT Ropar | Rupnagar | Punjab | 59.66 |
| 33 | Kalasalingam Academy of Research and Education | Krishnan Koil | Tamil Nadu | 59.03 |
| 34 | Aligarh Muslim University | Aligarh | Uttar Pradesh | 59.01 |
| 35 | Koneru Lakshmaiah Education Foundation University (K L College of Engineering) | Vaddeswaram | Andhra Pradesh | 58.95 |
| 36 | Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology | Bhubaneswar | Odisha | 58.79 |
| 37 | Amity University | Gautam Budh Nagar | Uttar Pradesh | 58.53 |
| 38 | International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad | Hyderabad | Telangana | 58.45 |
| 39 | IIT Bhubaneswar | Bhubaneswar | Odisha | 58.22 |
| 40 | Shanmugha Arts Science Technology & Research Academy | Thanjavur | Tamil Nadu | 58.02 |
| 41 | Institute of Chemical Technology | Mumbai | Maharashtra | 57.96 |
| 42 | Malaviya NIT | Jaipur | Rajasthan | 57.45 |
| 43 | UPES | Dehradun | Uttarakhand | 56.99 |
| 44 | Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur | Nagpur | Maharashtra | 56.58 |
| 45 | Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences | Chennai | Tamil Nadu | 56.55 |
| 46 | Symbiosis International | Pune | Maharashtra | 56.22 |
| 46 | Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar College of Engineering | Kalavakkam | Tamil Nadu | 56.08 |
| 48 | Lovely Professional University | Phagwara | Punjab | 55.99 |
| 49 | NIT Durgapur | Durgapur | West Bengal | 55.94 |
| 50 | NIT Silchar | Silchar | Assam | 55.91 |
| 51 | Birla Institute of Technology | Ranchi | Jharkhand | 55.28 |
| 52 | Graphic Era University | Dehradun | Uttarakhand | 55.26 |
| 53 | NIT Patna | Patna | Bihar | 53.89 |
| 54 | Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur | Howrah | West Bengal | 53.63 |
| 55 | Dr. B R Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar | Jalandhar | Punjab | 53.38 |
| 56 | IIT Jammu | Jammu | Jammu and Kashmir | 53.08 |
| 57 | IIT , Tirupati | Tirupati | Andhra Pradesh | 52.73 |
| 57 | Manipal University Jaipur | Jaipur | Rajasthan | 52.69 |
| 59 | Manipal Institute of Technology | Manipal | Karnataka | 52.55 |
| 60 | Madan Mohan Malaviya University of Technology | Gorakhpur | Uttar Pradesh | 52.45 |
| 61 | Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology | Thiruvananthapuram | Kerala | 52.44 |
| 62 | Motilal Nehru NIT | Prayagraj | Uttar Pradesh | 52.15 |
| 63 | Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology | New Delhi | Delhi | 51.33 |
| 64 | IIT Palakkad | Palakkad | Kerala | 51.2 |
| 65 | NIT Delhi | Delhi | Delhi | 50.79 |
| 66 | Sardar Vallabhbhai NIT | SURAT | Gujarat | 50.77 |
| 67 | PSG College of Technology | Coimbatore | Tamil Nadu | 50.64 |
| 68 | Sathyabama Institute of Science and Technology | Chennai | Tamil Nadu | 50.64 |
| 69 | International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore | Bengaluru | Karnataka | 50.46 |
| 70 | Netaji Subhas University of Technology (NSUT) | Delhi | Delhi | 50.43 |
| 71 | Banasthali Vidyapith | Banasthali | Rajasthan | 50.38 |
| 72 | IIT Bhilai | Durg | Chhattisgarh | 50.37 |
| 73 | NIT Srinagar | Srinagar | Jammu and Kashmir | 50.23 |
| 74 | University of Hyderabad | Hyderabad | Telangana | 49.36 |
| 75 | M. S. Ramaiah Institute of Technology | Bengaluru | Karnataka | 49.26 |
| 76 | Christ University | Bengaluru | Karnataka | 49.03 |
| 77 | IIT Dharwad | Dharwad | Karnataka | 48.61 |
| 78 | Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology | Amethi | Uttar Pradesh | 48.52 |
| 79 | Sant Longowal Institute of Engineering & Technology | Longowal | Punjab | 48.42 |
| 80 | Vignan's Foundation for Science, Technology and Research | Guntur | Andhra Pradesh | 48.27 |
| 81 | Maulana Azad NIT | Bhopal | Madhya Pradesh | 48.26 |
| 82 | National Institute of Technology, Jamshedpur | Jamshedpur | Jharkhand | 48.25 |
| 83 | NIT Meghalaya | Shillong | Meghalaya | 48.21 |
| 84 | Jain university,Bangalore | Bengaluru | Karnataka | 48.01 |
| 85 | NIT Kurukshetra | Kurukshetra | Haryana | 47.98 |
| 86 | National Institute of Technology, Raipur | Raipur | Chhattisgarh | 47.59 |
| 87 | Vel Tech Rangarajan Dr. Sagunthala R & D Institute of Science and Technology | Chennai | Tamil Nadu | 47.43 |
| 88 | AU College of Engineering (A) | Visakhapatnam | Andhra Pradesh | 47.37 |
| 89 | Chitkara University | Rajpura | Punjab | 47.34 |
| 90 | COEP Technological University | Pune | Maharashtra | 47.31 |
| 91 | SR University | Warangal | Telangana | 47.16 |
| 92 | Defence Institute of Advanced Technology | Pune | Maharashtra | 46.98 |
| 93 | Panjab University | Chandigarh | Chandigarh | 46.9 |
| 94 | Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University | Hyderabad | Telangana | 46.74 |
| 95 | C.V. Raman Global University, Odisha | Bhubaneswar | Odisha | 46.62 |
| 96 | Atal Bihari Vajpayee Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management | Gwalior | Madhya Pradesh | 46.25 |
| 97 | NIT Hamirpur | Hamirpur | Himachal Pradesh | 46.1 |
| 98 | Pandit Deendayal Energy University | Gandhinagar | Gujarat | 45.97 |
| 99 | NIT Puducherry | Karaikal | Pondicherry | 45.83 |
| 100 | Sri Krishna College of Engineering and Technology | Coimbatore | Tamil Nadu | 45.55 |
But every year more than 10 lacs students appear for various entrance exams in India, like JEE Main, JEE Advanced, BITSAT, VITEEE, SLIET and various state-level Engineering Entrance Exams
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