The Ministry of Human Resource Development released its ranking of National institutes for 2025.The overall ranking list by the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) included institutes like - Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore IIT Madras, IIT Bombay, IIT Delhi, IIT Kharagpur, IIT Kanpur and IIT Roorkee. The universities that made it to the overall top 10 list included - Jawaharlal Nehru University, Banaras Hindu University (Varanasi) and Anna University (Chennai)
The rankings, according to the report were released under nine categories: Overall, universities, engineering, colleges, management, pharmacy, medical, architecture, and law.
The NIRF also added several new criteria such as total budget and its utilisation, combined metric for quality of publications, university examinations and how many graduating students admitted into top institutions.
Name
2025 Ranking
2017 Ranking
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
1
IIT Madras
2
IIT Bombay
3
IIT Delhi
4
5
IIT Kharagpur
Jawaharlal Nehru University
6
IIT Kanpur
7
IIT Roorkee
8
9
Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi
10
Anna University, Chennai
13
ICFAI Business School (IBS)
Hyderabad, Telangana
Type: Private
R V University
Bangalore, Karnataka
Type: Private University
Chandigarh University
Mohali, Punjab
Chandigarh University, Uttar Pradesh
Unnao, Uttar Pradesh
Institute of Public Enterprise (IPE)
Lovely Professional University (LPU)
Jalandhar, Punjab
KL University
Guntur, Andhra Pradesh
Type: Deemed to be University
GITAM University
Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh
Hyderabad Business School, GITAM University
Medak, Telangana
MIT-WPU
Pune, Maharashtra
ICFAI University (IFHE)
MIT Vishwaprayag University (MIT VPU)
Solapur, Maharashtra
Maharishi Markandeshwar University
Ambala, Haryana
Universal AI University
Raigad, Maharashtra
DIT University
Dehradun, Uttarakhand
Mohan Babu University(MBU)
Chittoor, Andhra Pradesh
DOMS - Nalsar University
Type: Public
SRM University, Andhra Pradesh
UPES Dehradun
VIT-AP University
VIT University
Vellore, Tamil Nadu
SRM University
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham
Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu
Manipal University
Dakshina Kannada, Karnataka
Woxsen University
Christ University
Reva University
Sathyabama University, Chennai