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NIRF Ranking 2025 for Medical: AIIMS New Delhi has continued its dominance in the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) 2025, retaining the top spot in the medical category for more than a decade. AIIMS also grabbed rank 8 in the overall category. The latest rankings were announced by the Ministry of Education at a press conference led by Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan. The Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, secured the second position, while Christian Medical College (CMC), Vellore, was ranked third.
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The fourth spot is achieved by Jawaharlal Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research, Puducherry, while Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, placed at the fifth spot in the rankings 2025.
The ranking framework evaluated institutions based on five broad groups of parameters, namely, Teaching, Learning and Resources (TLR), Research and Professional Practice (RP), Graduation Outcome (GO), Outreach and Inclusivity (OI), and Perception (PR). Ranks were assigned based on the total scores across these parameters.
The NIRF 2025 rankings introduce several pivotal changes to its evaluation framework, marking a significant evolution in its tenth edition. For the first time, a new category aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has been added, allowing institutions to be assessed on sustainability metrics—an unprecedented move in NIRF’s history.
This shift broadens the scope of the rankings beyond academic excellence to include environmentally and socially responsible practices, alongside established parameters such as teaching quality, research output, and outreach.
Another major update is the introduction of penalties for retracted research publications under the “Research and Professional Practice” metric. Institutions will now be held accountable if faculty-authored papers are withdrawn due to misconduct or errors, with a negative weightage formula factoring the proportion of retractions into their overall score.
While the impact of this penalty is minimal for now, the Ministry has signaled that more stringent deductions will follow in future editions, reinforcing NIRF’s commitment to integrity and transparency in higher education.
