The Ministry of Education (MoE) has released the NIRF ranking 2025. As per the rankings, IISc Bangalore has achieved an NIRF rank of 3 in the Innovation category, 2 in the Overall category with a score of 85, and 1 in the University category with a score of 85.05.
IISC Bangalore has been featured in the NIRF 2025. According to the NIRF Ranking 2025, IISC Bangalore is ranked 2 in Overall category, 1 in University category, 1 in Research category. The rankings reflect the IISC Bangalore's consistent efforts toward academic growth and student development.
The table below shows IISC Bangalore’s NIRF ranking trends across major categories in 2025 and 2024.
| Category/Stream | 2025 Rank | 2024 Rank |
| Overall | 2 | 2 |
| University | 1 | - |
| Research | 1 | - |
NIRF evaluates institutions on various parameters like OVERALL, TLR, RP, GO, OI, PR, QNR, QLR, SFC. In the Research, IISC Bangalore scored 85.01.The following table shows IISC Bangalore’s performance across all the parameters in the Research category:
| Parameter | 2025 Score | 2024 Score |
| Total Score | 85.01 | - |
Comparison of IISC Bangalore against similar NIRF - 2025 ranked college in Research category.
| College Name | 2025 Rank | 2024 Rank | 2023 Rank |
| IISC Bangalore | 1 | - | 1 |
| IIT Madras | 2 | - | 2 |
| IIT Delhi | 3 | - | 3 |
| IIT Bombay | 4 | - | 4 |
| IIT Kharagpur | 5 | - | 5 |
| IIT Kanpur | 6 | - | 6 |