The Ministry of Education (MoE) has released the NIRF ranking 2025. As per the rankings, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Dharwad has achieved an NIRF rank of 77 in the engineering category with a score of 48.61.
IIT Dharwad has been featured in the NIRF 2025. According to the NIRF Ranking 2025, IIT Dharwad is ranked 77 in Engineering category. The rankings reflect the IIT Dharwad's consistent efforts toward academic growth and student development.
The table below shows IIT Dharwad’s NIRF ranking trends across major categories in 2025 and 2024. IIT Dharwad has shown improvement in the Engineering category compared to last year.
| Category/Stream | 2025 Rank | 2024 Rank |
| Engineering | 77 | 101 |
NIRF evaluates institutions on various parameters like OVERALL, TLR, RP, GO, OI, PR, QNR, QLR, SFC. In the Engineering, IIT Dharwad scored 48.61.The following table shows IIT Dharwad’s performance across all the parameters in the Engineering category:
| Parameter | 2025 Score | 2024 Score |
| Total Score | 48.61 | - |
Comparison of IIT Dharwad against similar NIRF - 2025 ranked college in Engineering category.
| College Name | 2025 Rank | 2024 Rank | 2023 Rank |
| IIT Dharwad | 77 | 101 | 93 |
| Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology | 78 | 80 | 79 |
| Sant Longowal Institute of Engineering & Technology | 79 | 76 | - |
| Vignan's Foundation for Science, Technology and Research (Deemed to be University) | 80 | 91 | 85 |
| MANIT Bhopal | 81 | 72 | 80 |
| NIT Meghalaya | 83 | 68 | 72 |
| Christ University, Bangalore | 76 | 93 | - |
| Ramaiah Institute of Technology | 75 | 75 | 78 |
| University of Hyderabad | 74 | 70 | 71 |
| NIT Srinagar | 73 | 79 | 82 |
| IIT Bhilai | 72 | 73 | 81 |