NIRF Management 2025: Ranked on placements alone, top 100 list changes drastically
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NIRF Management 2025: Ranked on placements alone, top 100 list changes drastically

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Aeshwarya TiwariUpdated on 06 Oct 2025, 03:25 PM IST

Re-ranking business schools based on just placement data submitted for the purpose of NIRF ranking significantly alters the top 100 ranks.
Careers360 compiled publicly available raw data from approximately 500 institutes out of the 1,026 that participated in the management category of the National Institutional Ranking Framework’s 2025 edition. From this pool, we focused solely on the placement data to compile a new ranking list. For this, equal weightage was assigned to placement rate and median salary for the most recent placement year, 2023-24. This approach provides a clearer understanding of the most critical factor influencing student decisions when it comes to management courses – jobs.

NIRF Management 2025: Ranked on placements alone, top 100 list changes drastically
NIRF Management 2025

The list of top 100 B-schools drawn up through this process is different from the actual NIRF ranking list. Careers360 even identified 19 institutes that are not in the NIRF rankings but make it into the top 100 when assessed on placements alone.

The table below shows the top 100 institutions based on placements alone and their corresponding ranks on the actual NIRF Management Ranking 2025. It also shows each MBA college’s placement rate and median salary. "NR" denotes institutions that are not ranked by the NIRF; these have also been highlighted.

Top 100 B-Schools: NIRF Vs Placements-only Ranks (2023-24)

Placement Rank

NIRF Rank 2025

Institute

Placed %

Median salary (Rs Lakh)

1

6

IIM Mumbai

100

33

2

2

IIM Bangalore

100

32.50

3

20

SPJIMR, Mumbai

100

31.50

4

1

IIM Ahmedabad

100

31

5

5

IIM Lucknow

100

30

5

7

IIM Calcutta

100

30

7

10

XLRI Jamshedpur

99.74

28

8

3

IIM Kozhikode

100

27

9

14

IIT Bombay

97.37

26.73

10

38

IIM Shillong

100

25.67

11

9

MDI Gurgaon

98.38

26.13

12

8

IIM Indore

100

25.50

13

17

IIFT Delhi

100

25

14

11

SIBM Pune

96.76

25

15

4

IIT Delhi

100

22.05

16

12

IIT Kharagpur

99.20

20.65

17

24

NMIMS Mumbai

100

20

18

27

IIT Kanpur

100

19.90

19

45

XIM University Bhubaneswar

99.43

19.53

20

19

IIM Rohtak

100

19.27

21

22

IIT Roorkee

100

18.50

22

16

IIM Tiruchirappalli

100

18.10

23

18

IIM Ranchi

100

18

23

21

IIM Udaipur

100

18

23

33

MICA Ahmedabad

100

18

26

15

IIM Raipur

100

17.50

27

13

IIT Madras

100

16.78

28

NR

Institute of Engineering and Management, Kolkata

100

16.40

29

40

International Management Institute, Delhi

99.26

16.60

30

25

IIM Nagpur

100

16

31

64

IIM Amritsar

100

15.60

32

59

FORE School of Management, Delhi

98.92

15.52

33

101-125

National Institute of Bank Management, Pune

100

15

33

35

IIM Jammu

100

15

33

54

Institute of Rural Management, Anand

100

15

36

30

Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad

96.38

15.86

37

29

IIM Visakhapatnam

95.86

15.50

38

NR

Sydenham Institute of Management Studies, Research and Entrepreneurship Education, Mumbai

97.18

14.95

39

23

IIM Kashipur

96.86

15.03

40

43

Goa Institute of Management, Goa

97.69

14.40

41

34

IIM Sambalpur

100

13.15

42

39

T A Pai Management Institute, Manipal

100

13.09

43

31

IIM Bodh Gaya

100

13

44

83

Madan Mohan Malaviya University of Technology, Gorakhpur

100

13

45

51

IIM Sirmaur

100

12.98

46

79

Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Lucknow

100

12.78

47

28

Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi

100

12.60

48

42

International Management Institute, Kolkata

100

12.48

49

60

Institute of Management Studies, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi

100

12.10

50

94

International Management Institute, Bhubaneswar

100

12

51

NR

National Insurance Academy, Pune

100

11.70

52

95

National Institute of Agricultural Extension Management, Hyderabad

100

11.60

53

NR

FOSTIIMA Business School, Delhi

100

11.50

54

99

Institute of Management Technology, Nagpur

100

11.07

55

55

Loyola Institute of Business Administration, Chennai

100

11

56

75

Prin LN Welingkar Institute of Management Development and Research, Mumbai

97.24

11.50

57

61

Birla Institute of Management Technology, Greater Noida

100

10.50

58

101-125

Lal Bahadur Shastri Institute of Management, Delhi

95.02

12.05

59

101-125

Sri Balaji University, Pune

100

10

59

NR

Indus Business School, Pune

100

10

59

98

IIT Jodhpur

100

10

62

101-125

University of Allahabad Allahabad

100

9.80

63

48

IIT Indian School of Mines Dhanbad

100

9.55

64

65

K J Somaiya Institute of Management, Mumbai

92.53

12

65

86

New Delhi Institute of Management, Delhi

100

9.50

66

72

Institute of Management Technology, Hyderabad

95.31

10.75

67

90

Jagan Institute of Management Studies, Rohini, Delhi

100

9.05

68

92

Panjab University, Chandigarh

96.00

10

69

50

Great Lakes Institute of Management, Gurgaon

95.83

10

70

41

Jaipuria Institute of Management, Noida

99.13

8.85

71

74

Jaipuria Institute of Management, Jaipur

99.15

8.79

72

NR

Dhanalakshmi Srinivasan College of Engineering, Coimbatore

100

8.50

72

NR

Institute of Management Studies, Ghaziabad

100

8.50

72

84

PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore

100

8.50

75

NR

Xavier Institute of Management and Entrepreneurship, Bangalore

97.40

9.34

76

96

Bharathidasan Institute of Management, Tiruchirappalli

94.92

10

77

100

University of Lucknow, Lucknow

99.36

8.45

78

67

Jaipuria Institute of Management, Lucknow

98.25

8.79

79

32

Chandigarh University, Chandigarh

100

8

79

101-125

Pune Institute of Business Management, Pune

100

8

79

NR

Vaikunth Mehta National Institute of Cooperative Management, Pune

100

8

82

73

Jain University, Bangalore

98.16

8.50

83

NR

Chandigarh School of Business, Jhanjeri

100

7.80

84

101-125

Bharati Vidyapeeth's Institute of Management and Entrepreneurship Development, Pune

100

7.65

85

101-125

Jaipuria Institute of Management, Indore

97.63

8.40

86

56

SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai

96.82

8.65

87

NR

Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India, Gandhinagar

98.59

8

88

53

Nirma University, Ahmedabad

91.01

10.50

89

NR

Chandragupt Institute of Management, Patna

100

7.50

89

NR

IES's Management College and Research Centre, Mumbai

100

7.50

91

NR

Matoshri College of Management and Research Centre, Eklahare

100

7.42

92

85

NIT Calicut

97.73

8.07

93

NR

Asian Business School, Noida

100

7.30

94

57

Department of Management Studies, NIT, Tiruchirappalli

95.18

8.70

95

NR

IILM Institute for Business and Management, Gurgaon

100

7.10

96

NR

Prin LN Welingkar Institute of Management Development and Research, Bangalore

91.13

10

97

NR

Army Institute of Management and Technology, Greater Noida

100

6.91

98

101-125

Amity University, Patna

100

6.75

99

NR

Chetana's Ramprasad Khandelwal Institute of Management and Research, Bandra

99.16

7

100

26

Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore

97.25

7.60

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