According to Nirf Ranking 2025, IIM Ahmedabad has again topped the list of management institutes while IIM Bangalore and IIM Kozhikode have also made their strong place. See what changes changed in the list of 2024 and 2025 and which new institutes joined.
Nirf ranking 2025 top management institute list: The Ministry of Education released Nirf Ranking 2025 from Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi on 4 September 2025. Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan released this list of 10th edition stating that this year also IITs and IIMS have maintained their strong hold in the management category. This ranking is considered very important for students and parents because through this the best management colleges in the country are selected. See this time the top 10 list of management category and know what is new from last year?
Nirf Top Management Institute List 2025
- IIM Ahmedabad
- IIM Bangalore
- IIM Kozhikode
- IIT Delhi
- IIM Lucknow
- IIM Mumbai
- IIM Calcutta
- IIM indore
- MDI Gurugram
- XLRI Jamshedpur
Nirf Top Management Institute List 2024
- IIM Ahmedabad
- IIM Bangalore
- IIM Kozhikode
- IIT Delhi
- IIM Calcutta
- IIM Mumbai
- IIM Lucknow
- IIM indore
- XLRI Jamshedpur
- IIT Bombay
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Top Management Institute List 2024 to 2025 rankings
- If you look at the list of 2024 last year i.e. 2024, there has been no change on the top-3 position this year. IIM Ahmedabad, IIM Bangalore and IIM Kozhikode have retained their place again. IIT Delhi is also continuously keeping its position in fourth place.
- The biggest change was seen from 5th to 7th rank. IIM Kolkata was ranked 5th in 2024, but in 2025 it slipped to 7th.
- At the same time, IIM Lucknow has now reached 5th position and IIM Mumbai also came up to 6 contracts up one place.
- Apart from this, there has been a major reshuffle in the 9th and 10th place. XLRI was Jamshedpur at number 9 in the list of 2024 and IIT Bombay on 10th. But in the list of 2025, MDI Gurugram has secured 9th position with entry and XLRI Jamshedpur is now at number 10. It is clear that IIT Bombay had to be out of the top 10 this time.
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