In a remarkable achievement, IIT Madras has clinched the top spot in the overall category for the sixth consecutive year and in the engineering category for the ninth straight year.
NIRF Rankings 2024: Top 10 Engineering Colleges
- IIT Madras
- IIT Delhi
- IIT Bombay
- IIT Kanpur
- IIT Kharagpur
- IIT Roorkee
- IIT Guwahati
- IIT Hyderabad
- NIT Tiruchirappalli
- IIT BHU
In the "overall" category, IISc Bengaluru is ranked second, just behind IIT Bombay, while IIT Delhi has fallen from third place last year to fourth this year.
For engineering colleges, nine IITs are among the top 10, with IIT Madras leading for the ninth consecutive year. IIT Delhi and IIT Bombay maintain their second and third positions in the category, while the National Institute of Technology (NIT), Tiruchirapalli is the sole non-IIT in the top ten.
In the field of Architecture and Planning, IIT Roorkee is ranked first, followed by IIT Kharagpur and NIT Calicut.
The 2024 rankings continue to offer an overall rank in addition to separate rankings in categories such as Universities, Research Institutions, Degree Colleges, Innovation, and discipline-specific areas including Engineering, Management, Pharmacy, Law, Medical, Dental, Architecture and Planning, and Agriculture and Allied Sectors.
New categories this year include Open Universities, State Public Universities, and Skill Universities.
The participation of Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in the NIRF rankings has surged from 3,565 in 2016 to 10,845 in 2024, with the number of categories expanding from four in 2016 to sixteen in 2024.
The NIRF evaluates institutions based on five broad criteria: Teaching, Learning and Resources (TLR), Research and Professional Practice (RP), Graduation Outcome (GO), Outreach and Inclusivity (O&I), and Perception (PR).