NIRF Rankings 2025: IIT Madras Tops Overall & Engineering

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• Updated on 4 Sep, 2025, 1:53 PM, by KollegeApply

Ministry of Education has released the 10th edition of the NIRF Rankings 2025. Once again, IIT Madras has claimed the top spot in both Overall and Engineering categories, while IISc Bengaluru continues to reign as India’s best university.

This year, the rankings span across multiple categories, including Colleges, Management, Medical, Pharmacy, Law, Architecture, Agriculture, SDG Institutions, and more. The framework also introduced negative marking for retracted research papers and a new Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) category, making the evaluation sharper and more holistic.

NIRF 2025: Top Institutions Across All Categories

NIRF Rankings 2025 have placed IIT Madras at the top in both Overall and Engineering categories, followed by IISc Bengaluru and IIT Bombay in the overall list. Among colleges, Hindu College, Delhi, grabbed the first spot ahead of Miranda House and Hansraj College. In professional education, IIM Ahmedabad led the Management rankings, AIIMS Delhi topped both Medical and Dental, Jamia Hamdard was No.1 in Pharmacy, and NLSIU Bengaluru continued its dominance in Law.

Category	Rank 1	Rank 2	Rank 3
Overall	IIT Madras	IISc Bengaluru	IIT Bombay
Universities	IISc Bengaluru	JNU, New Delhi	Manipal Academy of Higher Education
Engineering	IIT Madras	IIT Delhi	IIT Bombay
Colleges	Hindu College, Delhi	Miranda House, Delhi	Hansraj College, Delhi
Management	IIM Ahmedabad	IIM Bangalore	IIM Kozhikode
Medical	AIIMS Delhi	PGIMER Chandigarh	CMC Vellore
Pharmacy	Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi	BITS Pilani	Panjab University, Chandigarh
Law	NLSIU Bengaluru	NLU Delhi	NALSAR Hyderabad
Architecture	IIT Roorkee	NIT Calicut	IIT Kharagpur
Dental	AIIMS Delhi	Saveetha Institute, Chennai	Maulana Azad Institute, Delhi
Agriculture	Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), New Delhi	–	–
SDG Institutions	IIT Madras	IARI New Delhi	Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi

NIRF Rankings 2025: Highlights

IIT Madras leads Overall, Engineering, and SDG categories.
IISc Bengaluru is India’s top university.
AIIMS Delhi dominates both Medical and Dental categories.
Hindu College, Delhi, retains the No.1 spot among colleges.
New SDG category reflects institutions’ role in sustainability.

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