NIRF Ranking 2024: IISc Bengaluru Top Research Institute

The Education Minister, Dharmendra Pradhan, announced the NIRF 2024 ranking today. Based on the NIRF ranking 2024, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru has bagged the top spot in the list of the best research institutes in the country. Securing the rest of the four spots are IITs, with the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras taking the second spot.

IIT Delhi, IIT Bombay and IIT Khargapur took the third, fourth and fifth positions, respectively.

NIRF Ranking 2024: Top Research Institutions

1. Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru
2. Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
3. Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
4. Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
5. Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

Notably, in the NIRF rankings of 2023 as well, the same educational institutions ranked as the top five research institutes.

The Ministry of Education has released the NIRF rankings in 16 categories including Overall, Engineering, Law, Pharmacy, Management and others today.

This year, three new categories namely ‘open universities’, ‘skill universities’ and ‘state funded government universities,’ have been introduced.

Last year, in the list of the top ten research institutes, the rankings remained as below:

NIRF Ranking 2023: Top Research Institutions

1. Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru
2. Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
3. Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
4. Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
5. Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
6. Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
7. Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee
8. All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi
9. Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati
10. Tata Institute of Fundamental Research