NIRF Ranking 2024: IIT Madras best overall; engineering colleges dominate top 10

NEW DELHI: For the sixth time, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras has bagged the top position in the National Institutional and Ranking Framework (NIRF) 2024, under the overall category. The Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, is now in second place.

In fact the top 10 list is dominated by the IITs with only three institutions from outside the network of engineering colleges. Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) has retained its 10th position in the category. However, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Delhi has slipped to the seventh position this year from last year’s sixth.

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The table below shows the top 10 institutions in the overall category.

NIRF Ranking 2024: Overall top 10

NIRF Ranking 2024: Changes

IIT Madras has retained its top rank under the overall category of NIRF rankings since 2019. In 2017 and 2018, IISc Bengaluru had bagged Rank 1, which slipped to the second position from the following year.

This year, IIT Delhi has also slipped to fourth position from its third rank last year giving way to IIT Bombay. Even IIT Kharagpur has moved to Rank 6 from its seventh spot in 2023.

IITs have been leading from the front since the inception of the NIRF rankings.

Though JNU has retained its 10th position this year, over the years its ranking has witnessed a downward trend from the sixth position in 2017 and the seventh in 2018.

NIRF Ranking 2024: A methodology

NIRF was approved by the MHRD and launched on September 29, 2015. IIT Madras has remained in the top rank among engineering colleges since the inception of the ranking system.

This year, three new categories have been included – state government-run institutions, open universities and skill universities.

The NIRF framework outlines a methodology to rank institutions across the country which draws, from the overall recommendations, a broad understanding arrived at by a core committee set up by the MHRD, to identify the broad parameters for ranking various universities and institutions. The parameters broadly cover “Teaching, Learning and Resources,” “Research and Professional Practices,” “Graduation Outcomes,” “Outreach and Inclusivity,” and “Perception”.