IIT Delhi Ranking 2025

IIT Delhi Ranking in India

IIT Delhi features in Collegedunia, NIRF, India Today, The Week, Outlook, and IIRF national ranking lists. The table below presents its latest ranks across all bodies and categories, covering the most recent available data for each framework.

The variation between NIRF Engineering (rank 2) and Collegedunia Engineering (rank 1) reflects different scoring parameters. NIRF assigns rank 1 to IIT Madras, which has held the top NIRF Engineering position for 10 consecutive years, while Collegedunia’s composite model places IIT Delhi at the top. Both are among the two strongest positions in Indian engineering rankings.

IIT Delhi Collegedunia Ranking 2026

IIT Delhi appears in three Collegedunia ranking streams for 2026: Engineering, Management, and Design. The Engineering rank of 1st nationally, with a score of 997.87 out of 1000, reflects the institute’s top-tier status across Collegedunia’s composite engineering indicators.

The Management rank of 15th, with a score of 811.00, is notable given that IIT Delhi’s primary identity is engineering. Its management programs, offered through the Department of Management Studies, are ranked among the top-15 nationally across a pool that includes dedicated business schools. The Engineering score of 997.87 is the highest in Collegedunia’s engineering list, reflecting IIT Delhi’s near-perfect composite across teaching quality, research, and graduate outcomes parameters.

IIT Delhi NIRF Ranking 2025

IIT Delhi participates in six National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) categories: Engineering, Overall, Research, Management, Innovation, and Sustainable Development. NIRF evaluates institutions across five parameters: Teaching, Learning and Resources (TLR, 30%), Research and Professional Practice (RPC, 30%), Graduation Outcomes (GO, 20%), Outreach and Inclusivity (OI, 10%), and Perception (PR, 10%).

IIT Delhi NIRF Engineering Ranking 2025

IIT Delhi ranks 2nd in NIRF Engineering 2025, with a score of 85.74. IIT Madras holds the top position in NIRF Engineering for the 10th consecutive year in 2025. IIT Delhi’s score of 85.74 is the second highest in the Engineering category and places it well ahead of IIT Bombay (rank 3) in score terms.

IIT Delhi has held the 2nd rank in NIRF Engineering consistently across 2023, 2024, and 2025. The score has declined gradually from 87.09 in 2023 to 85.74 in 2025, a drop of 1.35 points over two years. The NIRF 2025 parameter-level breakdown is not yet publicly disaggregated, so the specific parameter driving this score movement cannot be confirmed from published data.

IIT Delhi NIRF Overall Ranking 2025

IIT Delhi ranks 4th in NIRF Overall 2025, with a score of 80.67. The Overall category includes all institutional types in one pool, and IIT Delhi’s 4th position reflects its standing relative to IIT Madras (#1), IISc Bangalore (#2), and IIT Bombay (#3).

IIT Delhi ranked 3rd Overall in 2023 and moved to 4th in 2024, a position it retained in 2025. The score improved marginally from 80.31 in 2024 to 80.67 in 2025, while the rank remained unchanged at 4th, indicating that other top-4 institutions maintained higher scores in the 2025 cycle. The 2023 score of 82.16 remains the highest in the three-year window shown.

IIT Delhi NIRF Research Ranking 2025

IIT Delhi ranks 3rd in NIRF Research 2025, with a score of 80.42. The Research category evaluates institutions on publications, patents, professional practice, and associated outcomes, with this parameter group weighted at 30% in NIRF’s model.

IIT Delhi has held the 3rd rank in NIRF Research for three consecutive years. The score has declined from 82.07 in 2023 to 80.42 in 2025, a drop of 1.65 points. This is the same directional pattern seen in the Engineering category and likely reflects methodological or data updates in the Research and Professional Practice parameter across the NIRF system.

IIT Delhi NIRF Management Ranking 2025

IIT Delhi ranks 4th in NIRF Management 2025, with a score of 78.94. The Management category covers MBA programs and management schools, placing IIT Delhi in the top 5 alongside standalone IIMs.

IIT Delhi improved from 5th in NIRF Management in 2023 to 4th in 2024, holding that rank in 2025 with a further score increase from 76.25 to 78.94. The upward score trend across three years (74.14 to 78.94, a gain of 4.80 points) indicates consistent improvement in management-related parameters, making it the only IIT consistently ranked in the top-5 management institutions nationally alongside the IIMs.

IIT Delhi NIRF Innovation and Sustainable Development Rankings 2025

IIT Delhi holds 7th rank in NIRF Innovation 2025, the same position it held in 2024. In the Sustainable Development category, IIT Delhi ranks 8th in 2025. These categories were introduced by NIRF to recognise research-linked innovation ecosystems and sustainability initiatives.

The Innovation rank of 7th reflects IIT Delhi’s active startup ecosystem and patent activity, scored under NIRF’s dedicated Innovation category. Multi-year trend data for Sustainable Development was not available at the time of publication, as this is a relatively new NIRF category. Innovation scores are not publicly disaggregated at the time of writing.

IIT Delhi World Ranking

IIT Delhi is India’s highest-ranked institution in the QS World University Rankings 2026. It also appears in QS Subject Rankings, QS Asia Rankings, and the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) by Shanghai Ranking Consultancy.

IIT Delhi’s QS World rank improved from 197th in 2024 to 123rd in 2026, a gain of 74 positions over two years. Key QS indicator positions for 2026 include Employer Reputation in the global top 50, Citations per Faculty in the global top 90, and Academic Reputation in the global top 150. The QS 2024 methodology revision introduced Sustainability and International Research Network as new indicators, which contributed to rank movement patterns across Indian institutions in that cycle.

IIT Delhi QS Subject Rankings 2026

IIT Delhi’s QS Subject Rankings 2026 place it in the global top 50 for five engineering disciplines, reflecting strong research output and academic reputation in its core technical domains.

The QS Subject Ranking of 36th in Electrical and Electronic Engineering places IIT Delhi ahead of many globally recognised institutions in that specific discipline. The five top-50 subject placements confirm IIT Delhi’s status as the top-ranked Indian institution in the QS Subject framework for Engineering and Technology, as acknowledged in the QS 2026 release.

IIT Delhi vs IIT Bombay vs IIT Madras Ranking Comparison

IIT Delhi is most frequently compared with IIT Bombay and IIT Madras, the three institutions that consistently appear at the top of Indian engineering and overall rankings. The table below shows their positions across NIRF 2025 and QS World 2026.

In NIRF Engineering 2025, IIT Madras holds the top position for the 10th consecutive year. IIT Delhi and IIT Bombay hold 2nd and 3rd respectively. In QS World University Rankings 2026, the pattern reverses: IIT Delhi ranks higher than IIT Bombay globally (123rd vs 129th), a difference that reflects better scores on Employer Reputation and Citations per Faculty for IIT Delhi in the QS methodology. NIRF Engineering and QS World scores for IIT Madras and IIT Bombay in 2025 were not available from the sources consulted for this article.

The divergence between NIRF and QS positions for these three institutions is a methodological feature: NIRF weighs graduate outcomes, inclusivity, and perception in the Indian context, while QS places significant weight on global academic reputation surveys and international student-faculty composition, where IIT Delhi’s research network gives it an edge.