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IIM Ahmedabad has once again bagged the 1st spot among the top 100 MBA colleges in India 2026-28 list. IIM A has become India’s no. 1 college for mba admission 2026-28. This year, IIM Ahmedabad gained an NIRF score of 83.29 to become the no. 1 in NIRF MBA ranking 2025 followed by IIM Bangalore and IIM Kozhikode. Apart from the IIMs, IIT Delhi made it to the top NIRF MBA ranking list 2025, making it the highest-ranked IITs, offering MBA courses. MDI Gurgaon has moved up to rank 9 in the NIRF management ranking 2025, making it the highest-ranked private MBA college in India 2026-28. Apart from the IIMS, IITs and the private MBA colleges, non-IIM government colleges made it to the NIRF management ranking list 2025.
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Apart from the existing NIRF parameters, two major changes have been introduced this year in the NIRF MBA ranking 2025. First, in judging parameters, the management institutions are judged based on their compliance with sustainable development goals. Moreover, for the first time, the idea of negative marking was introduced for the retraction of the research paper. Check out the list of top 100 MBA colleges in India 2026-28 as per NIRF MBA 2025 ranking.
Top IIM in NIRF Management Ranking 2025: IIM Ahmedabad
Top Non-IIM in NIRF Ranking 2025: IIT Delhi (Rank 4)
Top Private MBA College in NIRF Ranking 2025: MDI Gurgaon (Rank 9)
New Features Introduced -
Inclusion of Sustainable Development Goals.
Negative Marking for the Research Paper Retraction.
MBA Colleges | State | Type | NIRF Rank 2025 | Score 25 | Change from 2024 | Rank 24 | Rank 23 |
IIM, Ahmedabad | Gujarat | Public | 1 | 83.29 | - | 1 | 1 |
IIM, Bangalore | Karnataka | Public | 2 | 81.56 | - | 2 | 2 |
IIM, Kozhikode | Kerala | Public | 3 | 79.85 | - | 3 | 3 |
IIT, Delhi | Delhi | Public | 4 | 78.94 | - | 4 | 5 |
IIM, Lucknow | Uttar Pradesh | Public | 5 | 77.97 | +2 | 7 | 6 |
IIM, Mumbai | Maharashtra | Public | 6 | 77.58 | 0 | 6 | 7 |
IIM, Calcutta | West Bengal | Public | 7 | 77.34 | -2 | 5 | 4 |
IIM, Indore | Madhya Pradesh | Public | 8 | 75.68 | 0 | 8 | 8 |
MDI, Gurgaon | Haryana | Private | 9 | 71.96 | +2 | 11 | 13 |
XLRI, Jamshedpur | Jharkhand | Private | 10 | 70.63 | -1 | 9 | 9 |
SIBM, Pune | Maharashtra | Private | 11 | 67.9 | +2 | 13 | 17 |
IIT, Kharagpur | West Bengal | Public | 12 | 66.97 | +7 | 19 | 14 |
IIT, Madras | Tamil Nadu | Public | 13 | 66.5 | -3 | 16 | 15 |
IIT, Bombay | Maharashtra | Public | 14 | 65.82 | -4 | 10 | 10 |
IIM, Raipur | Chhattisgarh | Public | 15 | 65.03 | +1 | 14 | 11 |
IIM, Tiruchirappalli | Tamil Nadu | Public | 16 | 64.95 | + 11 | 27 | 22 |
IIFT, Delhi | Delhi | Public | 17 | 62.93 | -2 | 15 | 27 |
IIM, Ranchi | Jharkhand | Public | 18 | 62.77 | -1 | 17 | 24 |
IIM, Rohtak | Haryana | Public | 19 | 62.6 | -7 | 12 | 12 |
SPJIMR, Mumbai | Maharashtra | Private | 20 | 62.06 | - | 20 | 20 |
IIM, Udaipur | Rajasthan | Public | 21 | 61.79 | +1 | 22 | 16 |
IIT, Roorkee | Uttarakhand | Public | 22 | 61.77 | -4 | 18 | 18 |
IIM, Kashipur | Uttarakhand | Public | 23 | 61.74 | - | 23 | 19 |
NMIMS, Mumbai | Maharashtra | Private | 24 | 60.99 | -3 | 21 | 21 |
IIM, Nagpur | Maharashtra | Public | 25 | 60.88 | +6 | 31 | 43 |
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore | Tamil Nadu | Private | 26 | 60.25 | +2 | 28 | 30 |
IIT, Kanpur | Uttar Pradesh | Public | 27 | 60.15 | -2 | 29 | 23 |
Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi | Delhi | Public | 28 | 60.06 | -3 | 25 | 25 |
IIM, Visakhapatnam | Andhra Pradesh | Public | 29 | 59.95 | -3 | 26 | 29 |
IMT, Ghaziabad | Uttar Pradesh | Private | 30 | 59.85 | +5 | 35 | 38 |
IIM, Bodh Gaya | Bihar | Public | 31 | 59.65 | +2 | 33 | 53 |
Chandigarh University, Chandigarh | Punjab | Private | 32 | 59.4 | +4 | 36 | 36 |
MICA, Ahmedabad | Gujarat | Private | 33 | 59.22 | -1 | 32 | 37 |
IIM, Sambalpur | Odisha | Public | 34 | 58.59 | +16 | 50 | 58 |
IIM, Jammu | Jammu & Kashmir | Public | 35 | 58.5 | +7 | 42 | 41 |
UPES, Dehradun | Uttarakhand | Private | 36 | 58.33 | +5 | 41 | 39 |
Great Lakes, Chennai | Tamil Nadu | Private | 37 | 58.05 | -3 | 34 | 31 |
IIM, Shillong | Meghalaya | Public | 38 | 57.7 | -14 | 24 | 26 |
TAPMI, Manipal | Karnataka | Private | 39 | 57.13 | +19 | 58 | 42 |
IMI, Delhi | Delhi | Private | 40 | 56.59 | - | 40 | 34 |
Jaipuria, Noida | Uttar Pradesh | Private | 41 | 56.46 | +4 | 45 | 47 |
IMI, Kolkata | West Bengal | Private | 42 | 55.42 | +14 | 56 | 70 |
Goa Institute of Management, Goa | Goa | Private | 43 | 55.27 | -6 | 37 | 33 |
LPU, Phagwara | Punjab | Private | 44 | 55 | -6 | 38 | 32 |
XIM University, Bhubaneswar | Odisha | Private | 45 | 54.73 | -2 | 43 | 46 |
ICFAI, Hyderabad | Telangana | Private | 46 | 54.4 | -7 | 39 | 40 |
Thapar Institute, Patiala | Punjab | Private | 46 | 54.4 | -2 | 44 | 49 |
IIT, Dhanbad | Jharkhand | Public | 48 | 54.34 | -2 | 46 | 44 |
Amity University, Noida | Uttar Pradesh | Private | 49 | 54.15 | -20 | 29 | 28 |
Great Lakes, Gurgaon | Haryana | Private | 50 | 54.08 | +2 | 52 | 62 |
IIM, Sirmaur | Himachal Pradesh | Public | 51 | 54.03 | +6 | 57 | 98 |
Graphic Era University, Dehradun | Uttarakhand | Private | 52 | 53.98 | +7 | 59 | 65 |
Nirma University, Ahmedabad | Gujarat | Private | 53 | 53.48 | +2 | 55 | 61 |
IRMA, Anand | Gujarat | Private | 54 | 53.34 | -5 | 49 | 54 |
Loyola Institute of Business Administration, Chennai | Tamil Nadu | Private | 55 | 53.12 | +11 | 66 | |
SRM Institute of Science and Technology | Chennai | Tamilnadu | 56 | 52.74 | |||
Christ University, Bangalore | Karnataka | Private | 57 | 52.47 | +3 | 60 | 60 |
NIT, Tiruchirappalli | Tamil Nadu | Public | 58 | 52.47 | -7 | 51 | 35 |
FORE School of Management, Delhi | Delhi | Private | 59 | 52.23 | -6 | 53 | 63 |
Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi | Uttar Pradesh | Public | 60 | 52.14 | -12 | 48 | 56 |
BIMTECH, Greater Noida | Uttar Pradesh | Private | 61 | 52.09 | +3 | 64 | 48 |
MNIT, Jaipur | Rajasthan | Public | 62 | 52.07 | +6 | 68 | 69 |
SIMTS, Chennai | Tamil Nadu | Private | 63 | 52.01 | +13 | 74 | 71 |
IIM, Amritsar | Punjab | Public | 64 | 51.7 | -17 | 47 | 51 |
K J Somaiya, Mumbai | Maharashtra | Private | 65 | 51.28 | -2 | 63 | 45 |
Siksha 'O' Anusandhan, Bhubaneswar | Odisha | Private | 66 | 50.88 | -4 | 62 | 57 |
Jaipuria, Lucknow | Uttar Pradesh | Private | 67 | 50.86 | +5 | 72 | 92 |
KIIT, Bhubaneswar | Odisha | Private | 68 | 50.68 | -1 | 67 | 59 |
Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh | Uttar Pradesh | Public | 69 | 49.95 | +1 | 70 | 55 |
KLE Foundation, Guntur | Andhra Pradesh | Private | 70 | 49.89 | +9 | 79 | 52 |
Alliance University, Bangalore | Karnataka | Private | 71 | 49.85 | - | 71 | 87 |
IMT, Hyderabad | Telangana | Private | 72 | 49.38 | +27 | 97 | 84 |
Jain University, Bangalore | Karnataka | Private | 73 | 49.28 | +4 | 77 | 85 |
Jaipuria, Jaipur | Rajasthan | Private | 74 | 49.26 | +1 | 75 | 80 |
Welingkar, Mumbai | Maharashtra | Private | 75 | 49.08 | +9 | 84 | 73 |
GGSIPU, Delhi | Delhi | Public | 76 | 48.88 | -11 | 65 | 66 |
BML Munjal University, Gurgaon | Haryana | Private | 77 | 48.41 | +6 | 83 | 72 |
Chitkara University, Patiala | Punjab | Private | 78 | 48.3 | -24 | 54 | 64 |
Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Lucknow | Uttar Pradesh | Public | 79 | 48.13 | +7 | 86 | 78 |
Thiagarajar School of Management, Thirupparankundram | Tamil Nadu | Private | 80 | 48.05 | +2 | 82 | 90 |
Manipal University, Jaipur | Rajasthan | Private | 81 | 47.56 | -8 | 73 | 79 |
Cochin University of Science and Technology | Kerala | Public | 82 | 47.47 | -1 | 81 | |
Madan Mohan Malviya University of Technology | Uttar Pradesh | Private | 83 | 47.46 | - | - | - |
PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore | Tamil Nadu | Private | 84 | 47.38 | -4 | 80 | 89 |
NIT, Calicut | Kerala | Public | 85 | 47.3 | -9 | 76 | 75 |
NDIM, Delhi | Delhi | Private | 86 | 47.25 | +2 | 88 | 99 |
Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi | Delhi | Private | 87 | 47.1 | -9 | 78 | 96 |
Anna University, Chennai | Tamil Nadu | Public | 88 | 46.92 | -19 | 69 | 49 |
PDEU, Gandhinagar | Gujarat | Private | 89 | 46.81 | - | 89 | 94 |
JIMS Rohini, Delhi | Delhi | Private | 90 | 46.63 | -3 | 87 | 88 |
Rajagiri Business School, Kochi | Kerala | Private | 91 | 46.62 | -2 | 93 | 83 |
Panjab University, Chandigarh | Chandigarh | Public | 92 | 46.31 | - | 92 | 82 |
Atal Bihari Vajpayee IIIT & M, Gwalior | Madhya Pradesh | Public | 93 | 46.3 | -8 | 85 | 68 |
IMI, Bhubaneswar | Odisha | Private | 94 | 46.24 | -33 | 61 | 67 |
National Institute of Agricultural Extension Management | Hyderabad | 95 | 45.48 | +1 | 96 | ||
Bharathidasan Institute of Management, Tiruchirappalli | Tamil Nadu | Public | 96 | 45.36 | -2 | 94 | 86 |
BIT, Mesra | Jharkhand | Private | 97 | 45.25 | -7 | 90 | 77 |
IIT Jodhpur | Jodhpur | Public | 98 | 45.02 | - | - | - |
IMT Nagpur | Nagpur | 99 | 44.93 | - | - | - | |
University of Lucknow | Uttarpradesh | 100 | 44.53 | - | - | - |
College Name | NIRF Ranking 2025 | NIRF Ranking 2024 | NIRF Rank 2023 |
13 | 16 | 15 | |
4 | 4 | 5 | |
12 | 19 | 14 | |
14 | 10 | 10 | |
22 | 18 | 18 | |
27 | 29 | 28 | |
- | - | 9 | |
Indian Institute of Technology Indian School of Mines Dhanbad | 48 | 46 | 44 |
College Name | NIRF Ranking 2025 | NIRF Rank 2024 | NIRF Rank 2023 |
9 | 11 | 13 | |
10 | 9 | 9 | |
11 | 13 | 17 | |
20 | 20 | 20 | |
Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai (NMIMS) | 24 | 21 | 21 |
49 | 29 | 28 | |
33 | 32 | 37 | |
37 | 34 | 31 | |
43 | 37 | 33 | |
45 | 43 | 46 | |
36 | 41 | 39 | |
50 | 52 | 62 | |
59 | 53 | 63 | |
39 | 58 | 42 | |
81 | 73 | 79 |
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 MBA Ranking 2024 List | NIRF Management Ranking 2024 | NIRF Score 2024 |
1 | 83.32 | |
2 | 81.16 | |
3 | 77.90 | |
4 | 76.25 | |
5 | 75.07 | |
6 | 74.73 | |
7 | 74.43 | |
8 | 73.53 | |
9 | 68.13 | |
10 | 67.16 |
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
MDI Gurgaon is the top-most private MBA college in the NIRF Ranking 2025.
IIT Delhi is the top-most IIT that offers MBA in the NIRF ranking 2025
IIM Ahmedabad is the top-most IIM in the NIRF Ranking 2025.
IIT Delhi is the top-most non-IIM MBA college in the NIRF Ranking 2025.
IIM Ahmedabad is the top-most MBA college in the NIRF Ranking 2025.
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