IIT Madras Ranking 2025

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IIT Madras QS World Ranking by Subject 2023:

IIT Madras is ranked 68th overall in Engineering and Technology according to the QS Global University Rankings by Subject for 2023, with a total score of 77.8 out of 100. The university has improved its status from 108 to 68 positions since the rankings from 2022.

The following is a list of IIT Madras rankings based on QS ranking factors:

QS 2023 Ranking Table

IIT Madras QS World University Ranking 2023

IIT Madras is ranked at 250th position in the QS World Ranking 2023. IIT Madras ranking in the QS list has improved by 5 places as compared to 2022. IIT Madras has secured fourth position in India in the QS rankings 2023. The university has received ‘Bronze’ in Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Below given are the scores given to IIT Madras considering the QS ranking factors:

IIT Madras NIRF Ranking 2022

National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF), under the guidance of the MHRD, follows a fixed methodology to rank higher education institutions across India. The parameters considered for rankings purposes range from quality of teaching, research practices, graduation outcome, diversity in the student body, and overall perception of students as well as employers. IIT Madras has stayed put in the first position of the NIRF Engineering Ranking since 2016. Its latest composite score, considering all the ranking parameters, is 90.19. Let us see how the institution fared in the individual parameters of the 2022 edition of NIRF Engineering Ranking. Please note that the maximum score of each parameter is 100.

IIT Madras Parameter Scores (Engineering Category)  

IIT Madras has been ranked at the 1st position for the overall category by NIRF Rankings 2022 with an NIRF score of 87.59. The parameter scores for the same are mentioned below.

IIT Madras Parameter Scores (Overall Category)

Considering the other Top 10 Institutes, IIT Madras has maintained its 1st position following the IISc Bangalore at the 2nd position in the list. Following are the rankings of the top 10 Colleges under Overall Category in NIRF 2022.  

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IIT Madras Previous Year Scores

Evident from the table above, IIT Delhi has been the major gainer over the past three years while IIT Bombay has lost several points. The graph of IIT Kharagpur, Kanpur, and Roorkee has fluctuated considerably since 2017, though 2019 saw all the three institutions gain a couple of points in terms of composite score. 

IIT Madras Outlook-ICARE Ranking 2021 (Engineering)

  Outlook-ICARE India Rankings 2021 has placed IIT Madras at the 1st position considering the key parameters Faculty Student Ratio, Faculty Qualification, Published Papers, Citations Per Paper, and Inclusiveness & Diversity.   The ranking forum considers its own parameters which are Academic & Research Excellence (250), Industry Interfere & Placement (250), Infrastructure & Facilities (200), Governance & Administration (150), Diversity & Outreach (150), Overall Score (1000). However, the following tabulation shows the parameter scores which the ranking forum considers.

Some top colleges ranked by the OUTLOOK-ICARE Engineering Rankings 2021 are mentioned below.

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IIT Madras The Week Ranking 2021

IIT Madras has secured the 3rd position by The Week Rankings 2021 for both Best Technical Universities India and Top Engineering Colleges India categories. IIT-M has dropped its rank from 2nd to 3rd in "The Week Best Technical Universities India 2021 Rankings." Given below is the list of top 10 colleges as ranked by THE WEEK.

IIT Madras QS World University Rankings

QS (Quacquarelli Symonds) World University Rankings, is a highly regarded annual publication of university rankings conducted across international borders. The said ranking is categorized as World University, Asian Universities, and BRICS Nations.  IIT Madras holds the following position in QS World University Rankings.   

The QS rankings are measured on the basis of a few set criteria: Academics, Faculty Student Ratio, Ranking,Citations per Faculty, International Faculty, International Student, and Employer Perception. Let us see how IIT Madras stands as per each of these criteria in the QS World University Rankings:

IIT Madras Times Higher Education Ranking

The Times Higher Education is known for ranking universities so as to assess university performance on the global stage. The rankings cover the three main missions of university activity: research, teaching and impact. Times Higher Education Rankings placed IIT Madras in the 125th position in its Asia University Rankings 2020 while in the World University Rankings 2020, the institution features in the 601 – 800 rank zone. The institution dropped from its 2019 World ranking, and even in its Asia Rank, it has come down 5 places. 

All ranked institutions have an overall score and 4 pillar scores. 

Candidates can also refer to the table below for additional data on the university - 

Below is a graph depicting the different parameters which are also very important whilst looking into the university 

IIT Madras US News Best Global Universities Ranking

The latest U.S. News Best Global Universities Rankings, IIT Madras is tied at 654th position globally, with a regional rank of 129 and a country rank of 5. Some of the key indicators that were considered to attribute the ranking to the institution is as follows:

In the US News Best Global University in Asia Rankings IIT Madras is tied at the 129th position with IIT Delhi. Let us see how the Indian Institutes feature in the list along with IIT Madras.