NIRF 2025 Management Ranking Released: Top 10 MBA Colleges in India; IIMs, IITs & XLRI
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NIRF 2025 Management Ranking Released: Top 10 MBA Colleges in India; IIMs, IITs & XLRI

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Suvam MaitiUpdated on 04 Sep 2025, 03:54 PM IST

The NIRF MBA ranking 2025 is out!! The Ministry of Education, which oversees the NIRF Ranking 2025, has published the NIRF Management Ranking 2025 on September 04 on nirfindia.org. According to the NIRF ranking PDF, the top management college in India is IIM Ahmedabad. Apart from it IIM Banaglore, IIM Kozhikode, IIM Lucknow, IIM Mumbai, IIM Calcutta, and IIM Indore are among the top IIMs made it to the top 10 MBA colleges according to the NIRF management ranking PDF 2025. Apart from IIMs, IIT Delhi, XLRI, and IIT Bombay are ranked 4th, 9th, and 10th, respectively. This year, the 10th edition of the NIRF ranking, apart from the existing parameters, introduced two more major changes. First, in judging parameters, the management institutions are judged based on their compliance with the Sustainable Development Goals. Moreover, for the first time, NIRF introduced the idea of negative marking for the retraction of the research paper.

This Story also Contains

  1. NIRF Management Ranking 2025: Key Highlights
  2. NIRF Ranking 2025 Major Changes: MBA Colleges
  3. NIRF 2025 MBA Ranking: Top 10 MBA Colleges
  4. NIRF Ranking MBA Colleges 2025 : Year-Wise Comparison
  5. Parameters for NIRF Ranking of MBA Colleges
  6. NIRF Ranking 2025: Top 10 IIMs
  7. NIRF Ranking 2025: Top 10 Non-IIMs
  8. NIRF Ranking MBA 2025 For Top MBA Colleges in Delhi
  9. NIRF Ranking 2025 For Top MBA Colleges in Mumbai
  10. NIRF Ranking 2025 For Top MBA Colleges in Bangalore
  11. NIRF Ranking 2025 For Top MBA Colleges in Chennai
  12. NIRF Ranking 2025 For Top MBA Colleges in Kolkata
NIRF 2025 Management Ranking Released: Top 10 MBA Colleges in India; IIMs, IITs & XLRI
NIRF Management Ranking 2025 Released

NIRF Management Ranking 2025: Key Highlights

  • Top IIM in NIRF 2025 Management Ranking: IIM Ahmedabad

  • Top Non-IIM in NIRF 2025 Management Ranking: IIT Delhi (Rank:4)

  • New Features Introduced - a) Inclusion of Sustainable Development Goals.
    b) Negative Marking for the Research Paper Retraction.

NIRF Ranking 2025 Major Changes: MBA Colleges

  • IIM Calcutta dropped down to 7 in NIRF ranking 2025 from the NIRF Ranking 5 in 2024.
  • MDI Gurgaon ranked 9 , broke into the top 10 MBA colleges in the NIRF Ranking 2025, a jump from the NIRF ranking of 11 in 2024.
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NIRF 2025 MBA Ranking: Top 10 MBA Colleges

The NIRF ranking 2025 management list comprises the top 100 MBA colleges in the country. Check out the top 10 NIRF ranking for MBA 2025 from the table below

TOP 10 NIRF Ranking MBA 2025

NIRF MBA Ranking 2025 List

NIRF Management Ranking 2025

NIRF Score 2025

IIM Ahmedabad

1


IIM Bangalore

2


IIM Kozhikode

3


IIT Delhi

4


IIM Lucknow5

IIM Mumbai

6


IIM Calcutta7

IIM Indore

8


MDI Gurgaon9

XLRI-Xavier School of Management

10



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NIRF MBA Ranking 2024: Top 10 Colleges

NIRF MBA Ranking 2024 List

NIRF Management Ranking 2024

NIRF Score 2024

IIM Ahmedabad

1

83.32

IIM Bangalore

2

81.16

IIM Kozhikode

3

77.90

IIT Delhi

4

76.25

IIM Calcutta

5

75.07

IIM Mumbai

6

74.73

IIM Lucknow

7

74.43

IIM Indore

8

73.53

XLRI-Xavier School of Management

9

68.13

IIT Bombay

10

67.16

NIRF Ranking MBA Colleges 2025 : Year-Wise Comparison

The NIRF's top 10 MBA colleges, along with their NIRF ranking of the previous years. This NIRF year-wise comparison will help to understand how the top management colleges in India have performed over the years.

Name of the NIRF Ranking of MBA Colleges

NIRF Management Ranking 2025

NIRF Management Ranking 2024

MBA NIRF Ranking 2023

IIM Ahmedabad

1

1

1

IIM Bangalore

2

2

2

IIM Kozhikode

3

3

3

IIM Calcutta

7

5

4

IIT Delhi

4

4

5

IIM Lucknow

5

7

6

National Institute of Industrial Engineering, Mumbai

6

6

7

IIM Indore

8

8

8

MDI Gurgaon9

XLRI-Xavier School of Management

10

9

9

IIT Bombay


10

10

Parameters for NIRF Ranking of MBA Colleges

The parameters used for the NIRF ranking of MBA colleges, along with the weightage, are mentioned in the table below.

Parameters

Marks

Weightage

Teaching, Learning & Resources (TLR)

100

0.40

Research Productivity, Impact and IPR (RPII)

100

0.20

Graduation Outcome (GO)

100

0.15

Outreach and Inclusivity (OI)

100

0.15

Peer Perception (PP)

100

0.10

NIRF Ranking 2025: Top 10 IIMs

Name of the NIRF Ranking of MBA Colleges

NIRF Management Ranking 2025

NIRF Management Ranking 2024

IIM Ahmedabad

1

1

IIM Bangalore

2

2

IIM Kozhikode

3

3

IIM Lucknow

57
IIM Mumbai66

IIM Calcutta

7

5

IIM Indore

8

8

IIM Rohtak


12

IIM Raipur


14

IIM Ranchi


17

IIM Udaipur


22

NIRF Ranking 2025: Top 10 Non-IIMs

Name of the NIRF Ranking of MBA Colleges

NIRF Management Ranking 2025

NIRF Management Ranking 2024

IIT Delhi

4

4

XLRI Jamshedpur

10

9

MDI Gurgaon

9
11
SIBM Pune

13
IIFT Delhi

15
IIT Madras

16
IIT Roorke

17
IIT Kharagpur

18
SPJIMR, Mumbai

19
NMIMS Mumbai

20

NIRF Ranking MBA 2025 For Top MBA Colleges in Delhi

The NIRF ranking 2025 for MBA colleges in Delhi is given below.

NIRF Ranking 2025 For Top MBA Colleges in Mumbai

The NIRF 2025 ranking for MBA colleges in Mumbai is given below.

Name of the College

NIRF Ranking 2025

NIRF Ranking 2024

Indian Institute of Management Mumbai


6

IIT Bombay


10

S. P. Jain Institute of Management and Research


20

SVKM`s Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies


21

K J Somaiya Institute of Management Studies and Research


63

Principal L N Welingkar Institute of Management Development and Research


84

NIRF Ranking 2025 For Top MBA Colleges in Bangalore

The NIRF 2025 ranking MBA colleges in Bangalore is given below.

Name of the College

NIRF Ranking 2025

NIRF Ranking 2024

IIM Bangalore


2

Christ University


60

Alliance University


71

Jain University, Bangalore


77

NIRF Ranking 2025 For Top MBA Colleges in Chennai

NIRF 2025 ranking for MBA colleges in Chennai is given below.

Name of the College

NIRF Ranking 2025

NIRF Ranking 2024

IIT Madras


16

Great Lakes Institute of Management


34

Loyola Institute of Business Administration


66

Anna University


69

Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences


74

NIRF Ranking 2025 For Top MBA Colleges in Kolkata

NIRF ranking for MBA colleges in Kolkata is given below.

Name of the College

NIRF Ranking 2025

NIRF Ranking 2024

IIM Calcutta


5

International Management Institute


56

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