The Ministry of Education (MoE) has released the NIRF Ranking 2025. As per the rankings, Visvesvaraya Technological University has achieved an NIRF rank of 50 in the State Public Universities category with a score of 50.28.
VTU Belgaum has been featured in the NIRF 2024. According to the NIRF Ranking 2024, VTU Belgaum is ranked 69 in Engineering category, 101 in Overall category, 101 in Management category. The rankings reflect the VTU Belgaum's consistent efforts toward academic growth and student development.
The table below shows VTU Belgaum’s NIRF ranking trends across major categories in 2024 and 2023. VTU Belgaum has shown slight dip in the Engineering category compared to last year.
| Category/Stream | 2024 Rank | 2023 Rank |
| Management | 101 | 95 |
| Engineering | 69 | 52 |
| University | - | 63 |
| Overall | 101 | 92 |
NIRF evaluates institutions on various parameters like OVERALL, TLR, RP, GO, OI, PR, QNR, QLR, SFC. In the Engineering, VTU Belgaum scored 49.8.The following table shows VTU Belgaum’s performance across all the parameters in the Engineering category:
| Parameter | 2024 Score | 2023 Score |
| Total Score | 49.8 | 51.38 |
| TLR | 61.27 | 65.94 |
| RP | 48.05 | 49.97 |
| GO | 58.19 | 52.64 |
| OI | 46.62 | 51.94 |
| PR | 7.1 | 8.91 |
Comparison of VTU Belgaum against similar NIRF - 2024 ranked college in Engineering category.
| College Name | 2024 Rank | 2023 Rank | 2022 Rank |
| VTU Belgaum | 69 | 52 | 49 |
| University of Hyderabad | 70 | 71 | - |
| NIT Raipur | 71 | 70 | 65 |
| MANIT Bhopal | 72 | 80 | 70 |
| IIT Bhilai | 73 | 81 | - |
| IIIT Bangalore | 74 | 74 | 81 |
| NIT Meghalaya | 68 | 72 | 60 |
| PSG College of Technology | 67 | 63 | 57 |
| IIT Palakkad | 64 | 69 | 68 |
| Manipal University Jaipur | 64 | 76 | 75 |
| DEFENCE INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY | 63 | 57 | 71 |