The Ministry of Education (MoE) has released the NIRF ranking 2025. As per the rankings, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Palakkad has achieved an NIRF rank of 64 in the engineering category with a score of 51.2.
IIT Palakkad has been featured in the NIRF 2025. According to the NIRF Ranking 2025, IIT Palakkad is ranked 64 in Engineering category. The rankings reflect the IIT Palakkad's consistent efforts toward academic growth and student development.
The table below shows IIT Palakkad’s NIRF ranking trends across major categories in 2025 and 2024. IIT Palakkad has shown stability in the Engineering category compared to last year.
| Category/Stream | 2025 Rank | 2024 Rank |
| Engineering | 64 | 64 |
| Overall | - | 101 |
NIRF evaluates institutions on various parameters like OVERALL, TLR, RP, GO, OI, PR, QNR, QLR, SFC. In the Engineering, IIT Palakkad scored 51.2.The following table shows IIT Palakkad’s performance across all the parameters in the Engineering category:
| Parameter | 2025 Score | 2024 Score |
| Total Score | 51.2 | 50.24 |
| TLR | - | 74.88 |
| RP | - | 21.37 |
| GO | - | 62.91 |
| OI | - | 65.44 |
| PR | - | 22.36 |
Comparison of IIT Palakkad against similar NIRF - 2025 ranked college in Engineering category.
| College Name | 2025 Rank | 2024 Rank | 2023 Rank |
| IIT Palakkad | 64 | 64 | 69 |
| NIT Delhi | 65 | 45 | 51 |
| SVNIT Surat | 66 | 59 | 65 |
| PSG College of Technology | 67 | 67 | 63 |
| IIIT Bangalore | 69 | 74 | 74 |
| Netaji Subhas University of Technology (NSUT), New Delhi | 70 | 57 | 60 |
| IIIT Delhi | 63 | 85 | 75 |
| MNNIT Allahabad | 62 | 60 | 49 |
| IIST Thiruvananthapuram | 61 | 51 | 48 |
| MMMUT | 60 | 84 | - |
| Manipal Institute of Technology | 59 | 56 | 61 |