NIRF Rankings 2025 Release Date

NIRF Rankings 2025 will be released on September 4, 2025, by the Ministry of Education on the official portal, nirfindia.org, having the list of top-performing colleges alongside subject-specific institutions in India.

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Parameters of NIRF 2025 Ranking
NIRF Rankings 2025 Categories
What is the New NIRF Negative Marking Criteria?

The Ministry of Education will release the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) 2025 ranking for the top-performing universities and the domain-specific colleges on its official portal on September 4, 2025. Under this framework, all universities and colleges are ranked under 16 categories like overall, college, university, research institutions, engineering, management, pharmacy, medical, dental, law, architecture and planning, agriculture and allied sectors, open university, skill university and state public university. The parameters for the NIRF 2025 ranking of institutes are mainly “Teaching, Learning and Resources,” “Research and Professional Practices,” “Graduation Outcomes,” “Outreach and Inclusivity,” and “Perception”.

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Parameters of NIRF 2025 Ranking

Students can check the basis parameters behind ranking the colleges and universities.

Parameters	Details
Teaching, Learning & Resources (TLR)	Student Strength including Doctoral Students (SS) Faculty-student ratio with emphasis on permanent faculty (FSR) Combined metric for Faculty with PhD (or equivalent) and Experience (FQE) Financial Resources and their Utilisation (FRU) Online Education(OE) Multiple Entry/Exit, Indian Knowledge System and Regional languages (MIR)
Research and Professional Practice (RP)	Combined metric for Publications (PU) Combined metric for Quality of Publications (QP) IPR and Patents: Published and Granted (IPR) Footprint of Projects and Professional Practice (FPPP) Publications & Citations in SDGs (PSDGs)
Graduation Outcomes (GO)	Metric for University Examinations (GUE) Metric for Number of Ph.D. Students Graduated (GPHD)
Outreach and Inclusivity (OI)	Percentage of Students from Other States/Countries (Region Diversity RD) Percentage of Women (Women Diversity WD) Economically and Socially Challenged Students (ESCS) Facilities for Physically Challenged Students (PCS) Perception (PR) Ranking
Peer Perception	Academic Peers and Employers (PR)

NIRF Rankings 2025 Categories

The categories of colleges are mentioned below.

Overall
Universities
Colleges
Research Institutions
Engineering
Management
Pharmacy
Medical
Dental
Law
Architecture and Planning
Agriculture & Allied Sectors
Open University
Skill University
State Public University

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What is the New NIRF Negative Marking Criteria?

It is expected that for the NIRF Rankings 2025, there will be negative scores for institutes that have been retracted from journals in the last three calendar years and their corresponding citations. Anil Sahashrabudhe, Chairperson of the National Board of Accreditation (NBA) said, “This year, we will award some negative weightage for retracted papers and their citations. Next year, the penalty will be harsher.” As mentioned by the chairperson, the reason behind the negative scores is “The number of retractions was small a few years ago, but the numbers have increased in the past couple of years. So we are taking this seriously.” Moreover, citing another reason behind this step is to make a statement “that research should be conducted ethically.”

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