SJU Bangalore Ranking 2026

St Joseph’s University Ranking in India

St. Joseph’s University Bangalore holds confirmed national ranks from Collegedunia, India Today, Outlook, The Week, and NIRF across multiple streams. The table below shows selected ranks from each agency for 2023 to 2026, with the latest year in the first rank column.

BCA and BSc emerge as the strongest nationally ranked streams for St. Joseph’s University Bangalore across India Today over the three-year period. The Mass Communication programme holds the strongest Collegedunia stream rank at 13th in 2026. Outlook’s 2025 listing across six category-specific lists confirms a multi-stream national presence.

St Joseph’s University Collegedunia Ranking

Collegedunia ranked St. Joseph’s University Bangalore across six streams in the 2026 ranking cycle. The table below shows all six stream-wise national ranks along with their Collegedunia scores, which reflect placement outcomes, academic parameters, and infrastructure indicators.

The Animation stream carries the highest score at 746.7 while ranking 43rd, indicating that competing colleges in this stream have a wider numerical range. Mass Communication ranks highest at 13th with a score of 695.5. The BBA programme ranks 135th with a score of 429.75, reflecting the comparatively large national pool of BBA colleges evaluated. Collegedunia’s scoring framework accounts for placement records, faculty-student ratios, and institutional reputation, and its 2026 cycle represents the most recently published rankings from this agency.

St Joseph’s University India Today Ranking

St. Joseph’s University Bangalore holds India Today rankings across seven streams from 2023 to 2025. India Today publishes annual college rankings in association with the Marketing and Development Research Associates (MDRA), evaluating graduate outcomes, academic inputs, and institutional resources. The table below shows stream-wise national ranks for all three available years.

Key Takeaways:

• BCA held a top-3 rank in 2023 and 2024 before moving to 6th in 2025, remaining in the national top 10 across all three years.
• BSc improved from 12th in 2023 to 8th in 2025, a steady upward movement across three consecutive India Today cycles.
• BA held a stable position between 14th and 18th across 2023 to 2025.

St Joseph’s University NIRF Ranking

St Joseph’s University NIRF Colleges Ranking

St. Joseph’s University Bangalore appeared in the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) 2023 Colleges category, ranked in the 101 to 150 band, under the institutional name St. Josephs Arts and Science College. NIRF evaluates colleges across five parameters: Teaching, Learning and Resources (TLR), Research and Professional Practice (RPC), Graduation Outcomes (GO), Outreach and Inclusivity (OI), and Perception (PR).

With only one confirmed NIRF Colleges data point available (2023), multi-year trend analysis is not possible. The NAAC A+ accreditation is expected to support the Perception parameter under the NIRF framework when the university participates in future cycles under its current name.

St Joseph’s University Outlook and The Week Rankings

St. Joseph’s University Bangalore appears in both Outlook and The Week rankings for 2024 and 2025 across multiple streams. Outlook publishes its annual rankings through the iCARE methodology, covering category-specific lists at the national level. The Week, in association with Hansa Research, ranks colleges in Arts, Commerce, Science, and Mass Communication.

Across Outlook’s six category lists, St. Joseph’s University Bangalore held ranks between 9th and 20th nationally in 2025, with BCA Institutes as the highest-placed category at rank 9. The Week placed the university between 16th and 17th across Mass Communication, Arts, and Science in 2025, improving by one to two positions compared with 2024 in each stream.