India, Sept. 4 -- The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras has overall secured the top position in the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) 2025 for the seventh consecutive year. It emerged as the top engineering college for the 10th year since the rankings were introduced in 2016. The Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bengaluru has overall been ranked second, and IIT Bombay third.

Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan and minister of state for education Sukanta Majumdar announced the rankings on Thursday for Indian Higher Education Institutions in 17 categories, such as engineering, management, medicine, university, law, research, and agriculture.

The IIT Roorkee has moved up one place to fifth from last year, ...