India, Sept. 4 -- The Ministry of Education released the National Institutional Ranking Framework, NIRF Rankings 2025, on Thursday, September 4, 2025. The tenth edition of NIRF India Rankings was released by the Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan at the Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi.

In 2025, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras has emerged as the top engineering institute. Following IIT Madras is IIT Delhi at the second spot.

The top 10 institutions in the University category are as follows:

IIIT Madras

IIT Delhi

IIT Bombay

IIT Kanpur

IIT Kharagpur

IIT Roorkee

IIT Hyderabad

IIT Guwahati

NIT, Tiruchirappalli

IISc Bengaluru

IIT BHU, Varanasi

Notably, this year, the ministry has ranked institutions on 17 categories, ...