NIRF MBA Ranking 2023: Check Top Management Colleges, Previous Year NIRF Rankings
NIRF MBA Rankings 2023 was released on June 5 by the Union Minister of Education. Check NIRF MBA Rankings 2023, 2022, 2021, and 2020 of the top private and government management colleges in India here.
NIRF MBA Ranking 2023: The Union Minister of Education released the NIRF Rankings 2023 for MBA colleges on June 5, 2023. IIM Ahmedabad once again retained the top position on the NIRF ranking list, becoming the top management institution in India, followed by IIM Bangalore. This year, IIM Kozhikode secured the third position, leaving IIM Calcutta behind in the 4th position. IIT Madras retained its position as the number 1 college under the overall category, followed by IISc Bangalore in 2nd position and IIT Delhi stood third. Candidates can check the complete list of NIRF MBA Rankings 2023 on the official website of the Ministry of Education (MoE) at nirfindia.org.
A total of 8, 686 educational institutes participated in the NIRF rankings 2023, which is more compared to the previous year. In 2022, 7,254 applications were received while in 2021, 6272 institutes participated in the NIRF rankings. The ranking was released by the ministry in 12 categories including 8 subject-specific rankings. NIRF MBA Rankings 2023 feature top management colleges such as the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) and other top private management colleges in India. Let's now have a look at the NIRF Rankings 2023 for MBA colleges as well as for the past years.
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NIRF MBA Ranking 2023: Top Management Colleges in India
The NIRF rankings are given on parameters such as graduation outcome, teaching-learning and resources, outreach and inclusivity, research and professional practice, and perception. The NIRF Rankings 2023 for the top private and government colleges have been provided in the table below.
Name of the Institute | NIRF Score | NIRF Ranking |
83.20 | 1 | |
80.89 | 2 | |
76.48 | 3 | |
75.53 | 4 | |
74.14 | 5 | |
74.11 | 6 | |
71.99 | 7 | |
71.95 | 8 | |
70.75 | 9 | |
68.11 | 10 | |
66.18 | 11 | |
65.88 | 12 | |
64.88 | 13 | |
63.92 | 14 | |
62.83 | 15 | |
62.78 | 16 | |
62.74 | 17 | |
62.14 | 18 | |
61.07 | 19 | |
60.91 | 20 | |
SVKM`s Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai | 60.84 | 21 |
60.83 | 22 | |
60.63 | 23 | |
59.99 | 24 | |
59.78 | 25 | |
59.12 | 26 | |
58.60 | 27 | |
58.56 | 28 | |
57.57 | 29 | |
57.02 | 30 | |
56.62 | 31 | |
56.44 | 32 | |
56.28 | 33 | |
56.05 | 34 | |
56.01 | 35 | |
55.98 | 36 | |
55.47 | 37 | |
55.26 | 38 | |
54.83 | 39 | |
54.29 | 40 | |
54.17 | 41 | |
53.48 | 42 | |
53.41 | 43 | |
Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad | 52.64 | 44 |
K. J. Somaiya Institute of Management Studies & Research, Mumbai Suburban | 52.14 | 45 |
52.09 | 46 | |
51.81 | 47 | |
51.74 | 48 | |
51.67 | 49 | |
Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, (Deemed-to-be-University), Patiala | 51.67 | 49 |
51.30 | 51 | |
Koneru Lakshmaiah Education Foundation University, (K L College of Engineering), Vaddeswaram | 51.29 | 52 |
51.28 | 53 | |
51.19 | 54 | |
51.18 | 55 | |
51.07 | 56 | |
51.03 | 57 | |
50.90 | 58 |
NIRF MBA Rankings 2022: Top Colleges for MBA/PGDM
The NIRF rankings 2022 for the top private and government colleges have been displayed here.
Name of the Institute | NIRF Ranking | NIRF Score |
Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad | 1 | 83.35 |
Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore | 2 | 82.62 |
Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta | 3 | 78.64 |
Indian Institute of Management, Delhi | 4 | 75.10 |
Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode | 5 | 74.74 |
Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow | 6 | 74.55 |
Indian Institute of Management, Indore | 7 | 70.66 |
Xavier Labour Relations Institute (XLRI), Jamshedpur | 8 | 69.67 |
National Institute of Industrial Engineering, Mumbai | 9 | 68.84 |
Indian Institute of Technology, Madras | 10 | 66.60 |
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay | 11 | 66.24 |
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur | 12 | 65.15 |
Management of Development Institute, Haryana | 13 | 64.70 |
Indian Institute of Management, Raipur | 14 | 63.57 |
Indian Institute of Technology, Ranchi | 15 | 62.33 |
Indian Institute of Technology, Rohtak | 16 | 62.20 |
Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Maharashtra | 17 | 61.97 |
Indian Institute of Management, Tiruchirappalli | 18 | 61.88 |
Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee | 19 | 61.76 |
Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur | 20 | 61.20 |
S.P. Jain Institute of Management & Research, Maharashtra | 21 | 59.51 |
Indian Institute of Management, Udaipur | 22 | 59.28 |
Indian Institute of Management, Kashipur | 23 | 59.06 |
Indian Institute of Foreign Trade. Delhi | 24 | 58.31 |
SVKM's Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies, Maharashtra | 25 | 58.14 |
Institute of Management Shillong | 26 | 57.84 |
Amrita Viswa Visyapeetham, Tamil Nadu | 27 | 57.83 |
Amity University, Uttar Pradesh | 28 | 57.43 |
Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi | 29 | 56.44 |
International Management Institute, Delhi | 30 | 55.00 |
Great Lakes Institute of Management, Tamil Nadu | 31 | 54.90 |
ICFAI Foundation for Higher Education, Hyderabad | 32 | 54.88 |
Indian Institute of Management Visakhapatnam | 33 | 54.36 |
Lovely Professional University, Punjab | 34 | 54.30 |
XIM University, Odisha | 35 | 54.10 |
Goa Institute of Management | 36 | 53.58 |
Indian Institute of Management, Jammu | 36 | 53.58 |
T.A. Pai Management Institute Manipal | 38 | 53.57 |
National Institute of Technology, Tamil Nadu | 39 | 53.54 |
Chandigarh University | 40 | 53.23 |
University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Uttarakhand | 41 | 53.22 |
MICA, Gujarat | 42 | 52.86 |
IIM, Nagpur | 43 | 52.84 |
Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad | 44 | 52.12 |
Nirma University, Gujarat | 45 | 52.00 |
Indian Institute of Technology, Jharkhand | 46 | 51.49 |
K L College of Engineering, Andhra Pradesh | 47 | 51.27 |
Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology, Odisha | 48 | 50.88 |
Anna University, Tamil Nadu | 49 | 50.72 |
Banaras Hindu University | 50 | 50.64 |
NIRF MBA Rankings 2021: Top Private & Government Management Colleges
Below are the NIRF 2021 Rankings for the top 5 MBA colleges in India.
College | NIRF 2021 Ranking |
IIM Ahmedabad | 1 |
IIM Bangalore | 2 |
IIM Calcutta | 3 |
IIM Kozhikode | 4 |
IIT Delhi | 5 |
NIRF MBA Rankings 2020, 2019, 2018
Given below are the top 20 colleges for MBA/PGDM as per the NIRF Rankings 2020, score, and also the NIRF rankings for 2019 and 2018.
College | City | State | 2020 Score | 2020 Rank | 2019 Rank | 2018 Rank |
Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad | Ahmedabad | Gujarat | 82.75 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
Indian Institute of Management Bangalore | Bengaluru | Karnataka | 81.32 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
Indian Institute of Management Calcutta | Kolkata | West Bengal | 80.39 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
Indian Institute of Management Lucknow | Lucknow | Uttar Pradesh | 73.85 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur | Kharagpur | West Bengal | 70.43 | 5 | 6 | 7 |
Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode | Kozhikode | Kerala | 69.96 | 6 | 8 | 6 |
Indian Institute of Management Indore | Indore | Madhya Pradesh | 69.04 | 7 | 5 | 11 |
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi | New Delhi | Delhi | 67.19 | 8 | 9 | 8 |
Xavier Labour Relations Institute (XLRI) | Jamshedpur | Jharkhand | 67.11 | 9 | 7 | 10 |
Management Development Institute | Gurugram | Haryana | 65.95 | 10 | 12 | 12 |
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay | Mumbai | Maharashtra | 65.76 | 11 | 10 | 5 |
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee | Roorkee | Uttarakhand | 62.87 | 12 | 11 | 9 |
National Institute of Industrial Engineering | Mumbai | Maharashtra | 62.87 | 12 | 29 | 14 |
Indian Institute of Technology Madras | Chennai | Tamil Nadu | 61.77 | 14 | 15 | - |
Indian Institute of Management Tiruchirappalli | Tiruchirappalli | Tamil Nadu | 60.79 | 15 | 14 | 15 |
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur | Kanpur | Uttar Pradesh | 60.53 | 16 | 22 | 17 |
Indian Institute of Management Udaipur | Udaipur | Rajasthan | 59.57 | 17 | 13 | 13 |
S. P. Jain Institute of Management and Research | Mumbai | Maharashtra | 56.93 | 18 | 16 | 19 |
Indian Institute of Management Raipur | Raipur | Chhattisgarh | 56.12 | 19 | 19 | 21 |
Indian Institute of Management Ranchi | Ranchi | Jharkhand | 55.97 | 20 | 28 | 40 |
Indian Institute of Management Rohtak | Rohtak | Haryana | 55.91 | 21 | 23 | 27 |
Symbiosis Institute of Business Management | Pune | Maharashtra | 55.82 | 22 | 20 | 18 |
Great Lakes Institute of Management | Chennai | Tamil Nadu | 55.8 | 23 | 18 | 16 |
SVKM`s Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies | Mumbai | Maharashtra | 55.44 | 24 | 20 | 24 |
ICFAI Foundation for Higher Education | Hyderabad | Telangana | 55.21 | 25 | 26 | 22 |
Indian Institute of Foreign Trade | New Delhi | Delhi | 55.01 | 26 | 31 | 23 |
Manipal | Karnataka | 54.85 | 27 | 33 | - | |
International Management Institute | New Delhi | Delhi | 54.65 | 28 | 66 | 25 |
Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines) | Dhanbad | Jharkhand | 53.71 | 29 | 32 | - |
Indian Institute of Management Shillong | Shillong | Meghalaya | 53.56 | 30 | 24 | - |
Xavier Institute of Management (XIMB) | Bhubaneswar | Odisha | 52.55 | 31 | 44 | 36 |
Bhubaneswar | Odisha | 52.15 | 32 | 30 | 30 | |
Indian Institute of Management Kashipur | Kashipur | Uttarakhand | 52.07 | 33 | 25 | 20 |
Jamia Millia Islamia | New Delhi | Delhi | 51.41 | 34 | 34 | 34 |
National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli | Tiruchirappalli | Tamil Nadu | 50.49 | 35 | 17 | - |
Banaras Hindu University | Varanasi | Uttar Pradesh | 49.51 | 36 | 39 | 39 |
Institute of Management Technology | Ghaziabad | Uttar Pradesh | 48.27 | 37 | 41 | 31 |
Gurgaon | Haryana | 48.27 | 37 | - | - | |
Bengaluru | Karnataka | 47.47 | 39 | 42 | - | |
Indian Institute of Management | Nagpur | Maharashtra | 47.38 | 40 | - | - |
Amity University Noida | Gautam Budh Nagar | Uttar Pradesh | 47.35 | 41 | 49 | 48 |
Chandigarh | Chandigarh | 47.22 | 42 | 48 | 42 | |
New Delhi | Delhi | 47.11 | 43 | 38 | 37 | |
Ahmedabad | Gujarat | 46.75 | 44 | 40 | - | |
Aligarh Muslim University | Aligarh | Uttar Pradesh | 46.71 | 45 | 59 | 49 |
Coimbatore | Tamil Nadu | 46.69 | 46 | 37 | 33 | |
Birla Institute of Management Technology | Greater Noida | Uttar Pradesh | 46.65 | 47 | 57 | 45 |
Goa Institute of Management | Sanquelim | Goa | 46.63 | 48 | 50 | - |
Lovely Professional University | Phagwara | Punjab | 46.58 | 49 | 52 | 38 |
Chennai | Tamil Nadu | 46.51 | 50 | 36 | 32 | |
Chandigarh University | Mohali | Punjab | 46.4 | 51 | 64 | - |
Kolkata | West Bengal | 46.22 | 52 | 66 | - | |
Sri City, Chittoor | Andhra Pradesh | 46.16 | 53 | 47 | 34 | |
Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology | Patiala | Punjab | 46.14 | 54 | - | - |
Vellore | Tamil Nadu | 45.89 | 55 | 46 | 29 | |
K. J. Somaiya Institute of Management Studies & Research | Mumbai | Maharashtra | 45.5 | 56 | 54 | - |
New Delhi | Delhi | 45.22 | 57 | 62 | - | |
Ranchi | Jharkhand | 45.13 | 58 | 61 | 44 | |
Anna University | Chennai | Tamil Nadu | 44.81 | 59 | 43 | 28 |
Nagpur | Maharashtra | 44.71 | 60 | 41 | 31 | |
Hyderabad | Telangana | 44.38 | 61 | 41 | 31 | |
Bhopal | Madhya Pradesh | 44.26 | 62 | 60 | 41 | |
Bhubaneswar | Odisha | 44.02 | 63 | 66 | - | |
Bharati Vidyapeeth's Institute of Management and Entrepreneurship Development | Pune | Maharashtra | 44.02 | 63 | - | - |
Jaipur | Rajasthan | 43.97 | 65 | 72 | - | |
University of Petroleum and Energy Studies | Dehradun | Uttarakhand | 43.73 | 66 | 56 | - |
Delhi | Delhi | 43.45 | 67 | 69 | - | |
Principal L N Welingkar Institute of Management Development and Research | Mumbai | Maharashtra | 43.4 | 68 | - | - |
Jaipuria Institute of Management | Noida | Uttar Pradesh | 43.38 | 69 | 63 | - |
Koneru Lakshmaiah Education Foundation University | Vaddeswaram | Andhra Pradesh | 43.3 | 70 | 58 | 46 |
Visvesvaraya Technological University | Belgaum | Karnataka | 43.24 | 71 | - | - |
Institute of Rural Management Anand | Anand | Gujarat | 42.7 | 72 | 51 | 43 |
Lucknow | Uttar Pradesh | 42.56 | 73 | 63 | - | |
Gandhinagar | Gujarat | 42.47 | 74 | - | - | |
Rajpura | Punjab | 42.31 | 75 | 75 | - |
These ranks help Master of Business Administration (MBA) aspirants choose colleges wisely after analyzing the investment and ROI factors of the institutes. The ranks will also help students recognize other colleges and universities that have been performing well in the management field.
National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) was introduced by the Ministry of Education (MoE) to assess the performance of the institutes in India across various parameters. Following are a few of the top b-schools in India, their rank and scores evaluated according to NIRF Rankings for Management for 2020 and the previous years. NIRF ranks are released every year according to the yearly data collected by the framework. The ranks and scores are calculated based on five parameters including graduation outcome, research and professional practices, teaching and learning resources along with the general perception of the institute.
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