National Engineering College has been featured in the NIRF 2022. According to the NIRF Ranking 2022, National Engineering College is ranked 169 in Engineering category. The rankings reflect the National Engineering College's consistent efforts toward academic growth and student development.
The table below shows National Engineering College’s NIRF ranking trends across major categories in 2022 and 2021. National Engineering College has shown improvement in the Engineering category compared to last year.
| Category/Stream | 2022 Rank | 2021 Rank |
| Engineering | 169 | 191 |
NIRF evaluates institutions on various parameters like OVERALL, TLR, RP, GO, OI, PR, QNR, QLR, SFC. In the Engineering, National Engineering College scored 35.58.The following table shows National Engineering College’s performance across all the parameters in the Engineering category:
| Parameter | 2022 Score | 2021 Score |
| Total Score | 35.58 | 32.64 |
| TLR | 55.52 | 56.42 |
| RP | 12.09 | 5.8 |
| GO | 51.33 | 45.79 |
| OI | 47.7 | 46.72 |
| PR | 2.64 | 1.46 |
Comparison of National Engineering College against similar NIRF - 2022 ranked college in Engineering category.
| College Name | 2022 Rank | 2021 Rank |
| National Engineering College | 169 | 191 |
| CVR College of Engineering | 170 | 155 |
| NIT Arunachal Pradesh | 171 | 160 |
| AIT Pune | 172 | 139 |
| NIT Sikkim | 173 | - |
| Sona College of Technology | 174 | 192 |
| SPIT Mumbai | 167 | 143 |
| Rabindranath Tagore University (RNTU), Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh | 167 | 186 |
| CBIT Hyderabad | 166 | 133 |
| SVEC Tirupati | 165 | - |
| Sharda University | 164 | 179 |