♦ The Union Education Minister, Dharmendra Pradhan, released the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) 2025 on September 4.
♦ This is the tenth edition of the rankings, which list the top universities, colleges, and professional institutions across India.
♦ Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras topped the overall category for the seventh consecutive year.
♦ This year’s rankings have been released across 17 categories – overall, SDGs institutes, universities, colleges, research institutions, engineering, management, pharmacy, medical, dental, law, architecture and planning, agriculture and allied sectors, open universities, skill universities, and state public universities.
♦ The top-10 institutes are:
| Rank | Institution | Location |
| 1 | Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras | Chennai, Tamil Nadu |
| 2 | Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bengaluru | Bengaluru, Karnataka |
| 3 | Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay | Mumbai, Maharashtra |
| 4 | Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi | New Delhi |
| 5 | Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur | Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh |
| 6 | Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur | Kharagpur, West Bengal |
| 7 | Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee | Roorkee, Uttarakhand |
| 8 | All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Delhi | New Delhi |
| 9 | Jawaharlal Nehru University | New Delhi |
| 10 | Banaras Hindu University | Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh |