The Ministry of Education (MoE) has released the NIRF ranking 2025. As per the rankings, Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University) Varanasi has achieved an NIRF rank of 22 in the Research Institutions category, along with an NIRF rank of 10 in the engineering category. The institute has also achieved NIRF scores of 55.81 and 67.24 in each category, respectively.
IIT BHU has been featured in the NIRF 2025. According to the NIRF Ranking 2025, IIT BHU is ranked 31 in Overall category, 10 in Engineering category, 22 in Research category. The rankings reflect the IIT BHU's consistent efforts toward academic growth and student development.
The table below shows IIT BHU’s NIRF ranking trends across major categories in 2025 and 2024. IIT BHU has shown stability in the Engineering category compared to last year.
| Category/Stream | 2025 Rank | 2024 Rank |
| Overall | 31 | 30 |
| Engineering | 10 | 10 |
| Research | 22 | - |
NIRF evaluates institutions on various parameters like OVERALL, TLR, RP, GO, OI, PR, QNR, QLR, SFC. In the Engineering, IIT BHU scored 67.24.The following table shows IIT BHU’s performance across all the parameters in the Engineering category:
| Parameter | 2025 Score | 2024 Score |
| Total Score | 67.24 | 66.69 |
| TLR | - | 66.26 |
| RP | - | 60.16 |
| GO | - | 84.78 |
| OI | - | 57.89 |
| PR | - | 60.05 |
IIT BHU has been featured in the IIRF 2024. According to the IIRF Ranking 2024, IIT BHU is ranked 8 in Engineering category. The rankings reflect the IIT BHU's consistent efforts toward academic growth and student development.
The table below shows IIT BHU’s IIRF ranking trends across major categories in 2024 and 2023. IIT BHU has shown stability in the Engineering category compared to last year.
| Category/Stream | 2024 Rank | 2023 Rank |
| Engineering | 8 | 8 |
Comparison of IIT BHU against similar NIRF - 2025 ranked college in Engineering category.
| College Name | 2025 Rank | 2024 Rank | 2023 Rank |
| IIT BHU | 10 | 10 | 15 |
| BITS Pilani | 11 | 20 | 25 |
| IIT Indore | 12 | 16 | 14 |
| NIT Rourkela | 13 | 19 | 16 |
| SRM University Chennai | 14 | 13 | 28 |
| IIT Dhanbad | 15 | 15 | 17 |
| NIT Trichy | 9 | 9 | 9 |
| IIT Guwahati | 8 | 7 | 7 |
| IIT Hyderabad | 7 | 8 | 8 |
| IIT Roorkee | 6 | 6 | 5 |
| IIT Kharagpur | 5 | 5 | 6 |