IIT Madras secures top spot in NIRF ranking 2024

The Ministry of Education announced the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) 2024 on Monday.

The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras ranked first in the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) 2024, becoming the top ranked institution for the sixth consecutive year.

Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru has been ranked as the best university. IIT-Madras is also the best-ranked engineering college in the country for the last nine years.



In the management category, IIM-Ahmedabad, Bangalore and Calcutta are among the top five.

The ranking framework evaluates educational institutions of five broad parameters for the last nine years, including teaching, learning and resources, research and professional practice, graduation outcomes, outreach and inclusivity and perception.

Three new categories were introduced this year, taking the total categories to 16.

The higher educational institutes are listed under 16 categories -- overall, universities, medical, engineering, management, law, architecture colleges, research institutions, pharmacy, dental, agriculture and allied sectors, innovation, state universities, open universities, and skill universities.


As many as 10885 higher education institutions participated in the NIRF this year.

The (NIRF) is a ranking methodology adopted by the Education Ministry to rank higher educational institutions in India in 2015.

A Core Committee constructed the methodology for ranking institutes set up by MHRD to identify the broad parameters for ranking various universities and institutions.