NIRF Ranking 2025: IIT Madras top engineering college; IIT Hyderabad overtakes IIT Guwahati
Sheena Sachdeva | September 4, 2025 | 12:51 PM IST | 3 mins read
The same IITs hold the top 5 places in the NIRF 2025 ranking engineering list; IIT Roorkee and NIT Calicut are the top architecture colleges
NIRF Ranking 2025 List Engineering: For 10 years in a row, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras has claimed the top position in National Institute of Ranking Framework’s (NIRF) list of top engineering colleges in India. It has held that position since the inception of NIRF. The top five on the engineering list in NIRF 2025 remain unchanged but IIT Hyderabad has broken into the top 10, overtaking IIT Guwahati. IIT Roorkee is the top architecture college.
Live Updates: NIRF Ranking 2025
The NIRF India Rankings 2025, the 10th edition of the rankings, were released on Thursday, September 4. The exercise saw 14, 163 participants and 7,692 unique applications.
IIT Madras also secured first rank in sustainable development goals (SDG) ranking– the 17th category introduced in 2025 – and was the top institution in NIRF 2025 ranking’s overall category . On the NIRF 2025 universities list, IISc Bengaluru has taken the top spot .
NIRF Ranking 2025 Engineering Colleges: Top 10
The top five ranks are the same as last year’s. The main changes are in the top 5 to 10 bracket. IIT Delhi, IIT Bombay, IIT Kanpur and IIT Roorkee have all held on to their positions.
In NIRF’s India Rankings 2025, IIT Hyderabad has secured the seventh position, pushing IIT Guwahati to the eighth. IIT Guwahati had secured seventh rank in top engineering colleges in 2024. The ninth and tenth positions remain the same as last year, with IIT Tiruchapalli and IIT BHU in them, respectively.
NIRF Ranking Engineering 2025: Top 10 Colleges
|
NIRF Rank |
Engineering College |
| 1 |
IIT Madras |
| 2 |
IIT Delhi |
| 3 |
IIT Bombay
|
| 4 |
IIT Kanpur |
| 5 |
IIT Kharagpur |
| 6 |
IIT Roorkee |
| 7 |
IIT Hyderabad |
| 8 |
IIT Guwahati |
| 9 |
IIT Tiruchirapalli |
| 10 |
IIT BHU |
| 11 |
Birla Institute of Technology & Science -Pilani
|
| 12 |
Indian Institute of Technology Indore
|
| 13 |
National Institute of Technology Rourkela
|
| 14 |
S.R.M. Institute of Science and Technology
|
| 15 |
Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines)
|
| 16 |
Vellore Institute of Technology
|
| 17 |
National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal
|
| 18 |
Jadavpur University
|
| 19 |
Indian Institute of Technology Patna
|
| 20 |
Anna University
|
NIRF India Ranking Architecture 2025: IIT Roorkee no. 1
IIT Roorkee has claimed the top position in NIRF ranking 2025 in architecture and planning category. This year National Institute of Technology (NIT) Calicut pushed IIT Kharagpur to third position, thus securing second position. This is the third year in a row when these institutes are in the top three architecture institutes in India.
Indian Institute of Engineering and Science and Technology ( IIEST Shibpur ) has secured fourth position, similar to last year. Last year it secured the same rank with a jump from tenth position in 2023. This year's top five ranking for Pharmacy includes Jamia Milia Islamia, New Delhi with securing fifth position.
The School of Planning and Architecture (SPA) New Delhi has fallen out of the top five best architecture and planning institutes in India.
NIRF Ranking Architecture 2025: Top 5 architecture colleges
|
NIRF Rank |
Architecture College |
|
1 |
IIT Roorkee |
|
2 |
National Institute of Technology Calicut |
|
3 |
IIT Kharagpur |
|
4 |
IIEST Shibpur |
|
5 |
Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi |
| 6 |
Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology University, Ahmedabad, Gujarat
|
| 7 | National Institute of Technology Rourkela, Odisha |
| 8 |
School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi
|
| 9 |
National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu
|
| 10 | Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur, Maharashtra |
NIRF India Rankings have moved from four to 17 categories from 2016 to 2025 with the addition of the sustainable development category this year. Since inception, NIRF has seen a 200% increase in participation from institutes, stated Vineet Joshi, secretary, department of high education, ministry of education.
The NIRF India Rankings 2025 also factored in research papers that were withdrawn, awarding negative scores for such withdrawals. The system has been similarly penalising "self citations" of research publications for all categories since last year.
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