NIRF Ranking 2025 Medical Colleges: AIIMS Delhi still on top, debuts as No 1 in dental; PGIMR Chandigarh 2nd

NIRF 2025: The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Delhi, the country’s foremost medical school, has retained the top spot in the medical category of the latest edition of the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) 2025.

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AIIMS Delhi has also been ranked first in the dental category, where it has entered for the first time, toppling Chennai’s Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences to second place.

While AIIMS has consistently been ranked first ever since the medical category was added to NIRF in 2018, it has further slipped to the eighth position in the overall institute ranking from seventh and sixth positions it claimed in 2024 and 2023 rankings, respectively.

Saveetha Institute, which was at the peak in the dental category in the last three ranking cycles, has faced criticism over alleged unethical practices in research – specifically, the large number of self-citations in its academic papers – and had to retract several publications. This year, for the first time, a negative scoring system was introduced for retractions.

NIRF 2025: PGIMR Chandigarh, CMC Vellore retain spots

The 10th edition of India Rankings 2025, released by the union education ministry on Thursday, saw the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMR), Chandigarh and the Christian Medical College (CMC) Vellore, maintain their second and third positions, respectively, in the medical list since 2018.

However, the National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences (NIMHANS), Bengaluru, which occupied the fourth rank among medical institutes, no longer features among the top five.

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The Jawaharlal Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER), Puducherry, and Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences (SGPIMS) have both moved up from their last year’s position.

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In the dental list, Maulana Azad Institute of Dental Sciences, New Delhi continues to be ranked third, while Manipal College of Dental Sciences has dropped from the second spot to the fifth and Dr DY Patil Vidyapeeth, Pune has moved from the fifth position to the fourth.

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The King George`s Medical University, Lucknow lost its place among the top five dental institutes.