The Ministry of Education (MoE) has released the NIRF ranking 2025. As per the rankings, IIT Madras has achieved an NIRF rank of 2 in the Research Institutions category with a score of 82.99, 1 in the Engineering category with a score of 88.72, 13 in the Management category with a score of 66.5, 1 in the Innovation category, 1 in the SDG Institutions category, and 1 in the Overall category with a score of 87.31.
IIT Madras has been featured in the NIRF 2025. According to the NIRF Ranking 2025, IIT Madras is ranked 1 in Overall category, 1 in Engineering category, 13 in Management category, 2 in Research category. The rankings reflect the IIT Madras's consistent efforts toward academic growth and student development.
The table below shows IIT Madras’s NIRF ranking trends across major categories in 2025 and 2024. IIT Madras has shown stability in the Overall category compared to last year.
| Category/Stream | 2025 Rank | 2024 Rank |
| Overall | 1 | 1 |
| Engineering | 1 | 1 |
| Management | 13 | 16 |
| Research | 2 | - |
NIRF evaluates institutions on various parameters like OVERALL, TLR, RP, GO, OI, PR, QNR, QLR, SFC. In the Overall, IIT Madras scored 87.31.The following table shows IIT Madras’s performance across all the parameters in the Overall category:
| Parameter | 2025 Score | 2024 Score |
| Total Score | 87.31 | 86.42 |
| TLR | - | 88.37 |
| RP | - | 87.3 |
| GO | - | 85.76 |
| OI | - | 65.68 |
| PR | - | 100 |
Comparison of IIT Madras against similar NIRF - 2025 ranked college in Overall category.
| College Name | 2025 Rank | 2024 Rank | 2023 Rank |
| IIT Madras | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| JNU | 9 | 10 | - |
| IISC Bangalore | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| IIT Bombay | 3 | 3 | 4 |
| Jamia Millia Islamia | 13 | 13 | 12 |
| IIT Delhi | 4 | 4 | 3 |