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    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 10 Sep 2025, 10:26 AM IST

    The NIRF MBA ranking 2025 is out!! The Ministry of Education, which oversees the NIRF Ranking 2025, has published the NIRF Ranking 2025 for management colleges on September 04 on nirfindia.org. According to the NIRF ranking PDF 2025, 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 2025 management List . Apart from IIMs, IIT Delhi, XLRI, and IIT Bombay are ranked 4th, 9th, and 10th, respectively. This year, the 10th edition of the NIRF 2025 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 MBA 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

    83.29

    IIM Bangalore

    2

    81.56

    IIM Kozhikode

    3

    79.85

    IIT Delhi

    4

    78.94
    IIM Lucknow577.97

    IIM Mumbai

    6

    77.58
    IIM Calcutta777.34

    IIM Indore

    8

    75.68
    MDI Gurgaon971.96

    XLRI-Xavier School of Management

    10

    70.63


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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 Raipur1514
    IIM Trichy1627
    IIM Ranchi1817

    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

    MDI Gurgaon

    911

    XLRI Jamshedpur

    10

    9

    SIBM Pune
    11
    13
    IIT Kharagpur1219
    IIT Madras1316
    IIT Bombay1410
    IIFT Delhi
    17
    15
    SPJIMR Mumbai2020
    NMIMS Mumbai2421

    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

    6

    IIT Bombay

    14

    10

    S. P. Jain Institute of Management and Research

    20

    20

    SVKM`s Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies

    24

    21

    K J Somaiya Institute of Management Studies and Research

    65

    63

    Principal L N Welingkar Institute of Management Development and Research

    75

    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

    2

    Christ University

    57

    60

    Alliance University

    71

    71

    Jain University, Bangalore

    73

    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

    13

    16

    Great Lakes Institute of Management

    37

    34

    Loyola Institute of Business Administration

    55

    66

    Anna University

    88

    69

    Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences

    63

    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

    7

    5

    International Management Institute

    42

    56

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