The Ministry of Education (MoE) has released the NIRF ranking 2025. As per the rankings, Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology has achieved an NIRF rank of 61 in the engineering category with a score of 52.44.
IIST Thiruvananthapuram has been featured in the NIRF 2025. According to the NIRF Ranking 2025, IIST Thiruvananthapuram is ranked 61 in Engineering category. The rankings reflect the IIST Thiruvananthapuram's consistent efforts toward academic growth and student development.
The table below shows IIST Thiruvananthapuram’s NIRF ranking trends across major categories in 2025 and 2024. IIST Thiruvananthapuram has shown slight dip in the Engineering category compared to last year.
| Category/Stream | 2025 Rank | 2024 Rank |
| Engineering | 61 | 51 |
| Overall | - | 101 |
NIRF evaluates institutions on various parameters like OVERALL, TLR, RP, GO, OI, PR, QNR, QLR, SFC. In the Engineering, IIST Thiruvananthapuram scored 52.44.The following table shows IIST Thiruvananthapuram’s performance across all the parameters in the Engineering category:
| Parameter | 2025 Score | 2024 Score |
| Total Score | 52.44 | 53.13 |
| TLR | - | 77.82 |
| RP | - | 23.52 |
| GO | - | 66.88 |
| OI | - | 61.08 |
| PR | - | 32.27 |
Comparison of IIST Thiruvananthapuram against similar NIRF - 2025 ranked college in Engineering category.
| College Name | 2025 Rank | 2024 Rank | 2023 Rank |
| IIST Thiruvananthapuram | 61 | 51 | 48 |
| MNNIT Allahabad | 62 | 60 | 49 |
| IIIT Delhi | 63 | 85 | 75 |
| IIT Palakkad | 64 | 64 | 69 |
| NIT Delhi | 65 | 45 | 51 |
| SVNIT Surat | 66 | 59 | 65 |
| MMMUT | 60 | 84 | - |
| Manipal Institute of Technology | 59 | 56 | 61 |
| Manipal University Jaipur | 58 | 64 | 76 |
| IIT Tirupati | 57 | 61 | 59 |
| IIT Jammu | 56 | 62 | 67 |