US EditionIIT-Madras Secures Top Spot in NIRF Rankings 2025 for Seventh Year in a Row - The Statesman
IIT Madras leads India’s higher education rankings for the seventh year overall and tenth in engineering, excelling in innovation and sustainability among 7,600 institutions assessed.
- On September 4, 2025, in New Delhi, the Ministry of Education unveiled the results of the 10th annual ranking exercise evaluating higher education institutions across 17 different categories.
- Established in 2015 under the then Ministry of Human Resource Development, the NIRF assesses higher education institutions based on criteria such as teaching quality, research output, and institutional reputation.
- IIT Madras secured the first position overall and topped the engineering category once again, followed by IISc Bengaluru and IIT Mumbai in the top three spots.
- Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan emphasized the steady progress in higher education and described the ranking system as a key step in achieving the vision of a developed India by 2047.
- This ranking reaffirms IIT Madras's sustained leadership in innovation and technical education, while the framework signals ongoing efforts to enhance education quality and accessibility.
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IIT-Madras secures top spot in NIRF Rankings 2025 for seventh year in a row - The Statesman
The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras has once again bagged the top position in the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) 2025, marking the seventh consecutive year of its dominance in the overall category.
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