As the best educational institution in the country in the overall category in the 2024 ranking conducted by the National Board of Accreditation (NBA) and the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF), it is no surprise that this institution has appeared at the top for the sixth consecutive time.

In fact, seven IITs have always been at the top – IIT Madras, IIT Bombay, IIT Delhi, IIT Kanpur, IIT Kharagpur, IIT Guwahati, and IIT Roorkee, with institutions like the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bengaluru and All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) and Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in Delhi managing to break through their domination.

The NIRF report for 2024, prepared by the Ministry of Education, states that the ranking of institutions has remained largely consistent among the top 25, despite minor variations in individual ranks due to performance differences across some parameters.

This year, the IITs largely maintained their positions from the previous year with IIT Madras and IISc Bengaluru maintaining the top two spots.

There has been a switch between IIT Bombay and Delhi for third and fourth place and AIIMS Delhi and IIT Kharagpur for sixth and seventh place from the previous year.

The top 100 in the overall category consist of 23 state public universities, 22 private deemed universities, 16 IITs, nine NITs, seven central universities, seven private universities, four AIIMS, IISERs and government deemed universities each, three other CFTIs, and one college.

According to the NIRF, the maximum representation in the overall category of educational institutes comes from South India with 36%, followed by North India with 30%.

West and East India account for 19% and 15% of the ranked institutions respectively.

IISc Bengaluru maintains its position as the top university in the country, followed closely by JNU and Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) in Delhi.

Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE) ended up securing fourth place, while Jadavpur University got bumped down to ninth place from the previous year’s rankings.

To enter the top 10 university club in the country, securing the sixth place.

Last time, the university had made it to the top 10 university club in 2018.

It was placed at the 11th position in the 2023 rankings.

New Delhi remained at the top in the colleges category with Hindu College and Miranda House securing the top two places.

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Stephen’s College, New Delhi and Ramakrishna Mission Vidyamandira, Howrah shared the third place.

IIT domination continues in the engineering category with IIT Madras securing the top spot for the ninth year in a row, while seven more IITs are featured in the top 10, with IIT Delhi and IIT Bombay ranking second and third.

Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Ahmedabad has continued to be the top management institute for the fifth consecutive year since 2020, followed by the IIMs in Bengaluru and Kozhikode, and IIT in Delhi.

The only outlier in the top 10 is XLRI-Xavier School of Management in Jamshedpur which has been ranked in the ninth place.

AIIMS in New Delhi is the best place to study medical sciences, in the top spot for the seventh consecutive year, followed by Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research in Chandigarh and Christian Medical College in Vellore.