Nirf Ranking 2025 has been released. The university category is at IISC Bengaluru number-1, while JNU, Jamia, BHU, DU and Manipal Academy made it to the top 10. The ranking of many universities has changed compared to last year. See details here.
Nirf ranking 2025 top university list: NIRF ranking 2025 has been announced and as usual, this time also everyone’s eyes were on the top university list. Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan released the 10th edition on 4 September 2025 at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi. In the overall category, IIT Madras remained continuously at number-1 this year. But the list of university categories has seen many important changes compared to last year. See the list and know the important changes of this year.
Nirf India Rankings 2025 University Category List Link Check Here
Top University List 2025 (Nirf Ranking 2025)
- IISC, Bangalore
- JNU, New Delhi
- Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal
- Jamia Milia Islamia, New Delhi
- Delhi University
- Bhu, varanasi
- Bits, Pilani
- Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore
- Jadavpur University, Kolkata
- Aligarh Muslim University
Top University List 2024 (Nirf Ranking 2024)
- IISC, Bangalore
- JNU (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
- Jamia Milia Islamia
- Manipal Academy of Higher Education (Manipal Higher Education Academy)
- BHU (Banaras Hindu University)
- Delhi University
- Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham
- AMU (Aligarh Muslim University)
- Jadavpur University
- VIT (Vellor Institute of Technology)
Also read- What is Nirf ranking, know how the rank of institutions is decided and what is the benefit?
What new and what changed in Nirf Top 10 University List?
If you look carefully at the NIRF University rankings of (2024) and this year (2025), many interesting changes are seen-
- Top-3 reshuffle: This year Manipal has finished third, while Jamia had to come down to fourth place.
- Delhi University and BHU swap: BHU was 5th and DU 6th in 2024, but this year DU reached 5th and BHU 6th.
- BITS Pilani’s entry: The biggest change in this year’s list is BITS Pilani’s top-10, compared to VIT (Vellor Institute of Technology) last year.
- Changing the location of AMU and Jadavpur: This time Jadavpur is at number 9 and AMU was at number 10, while AMU was ahead in 2024.
Also read- Nirf ranking 2025 released, IIT Madras again number 1, see all the categories list here