After consecutive drops, Panjab University improves NIRF ranking

Despite slipping three places and suffering its worst drop of 16 ranks last year, Panjab University, Chandigarh, delivered a strong performance in the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) 2025 — released by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) — with an improvement in both the ‘overall’ and ‘universities’ categories.

The university further achieved the honour of being in the top-three in the pharmacy and state university category. In ‘state public universities’, Panjab University has been ranked third with a score of 69.92, behind Anna University and Jadavour University. Last year, the university trailed at fifth spot with 67.43.

The university achieved 57th place overall and 35th in the ‘universities’ category — improving by three ranks in each. In engineering, the university climbed from the 101-150 band, to 93rd this year and maintained the 11-50 bracket in Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) category.

“It is a matter of great pride that Panjab University has secured the third position — both among state universities and in pharmacy institutions in NIRF 2025; and that our university, overall, engineering and other rankings have continued to improve, with a first-time entry into the SDG category and sustained standing in Innovation,” said Prof Renu Vig, Vice Chancellor of the university.

The NIRF rankings are assessed on parameters including Teaching, Learning & Resources (TLR) — which includes several other sub-parameters — and the university scored an overall score of 56.76; while in the Research and Professional Practice (RP), the university bettered to 41.58.

In ‘research’ the university dropped to two ranks to 37th this year with a score of 49.47.

Government Home Science College, Sector 10, attained the 35th rank with 62.18, followed by GGDSD College, Sector 32, at 70th rank with 57.44 in the college category.