Top 10 management colleges in India: NIRF 2024 Rankings

NIRF Ranking 2024 Management College: Two IITs — Delhi and Bombay — have secured top positions in the otherwise IIMs dominated ranking.

NIRF 2024: List of top management institutes here. (Graphics by Abhishek Mitra)

NIRF Ranking 2024 Management College: The National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) Rankings released today revealed that the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM A) is the top business school in the country — a continued victory.

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“At IIMA, we are committed to upholding the highest standards in management education and research. We are thrilled to be recognised as the best management institute in India for the fifth consecutive year by the Ministry of Education’s NIRF 2024 rankings. This accolade underscores the exceptional education and pioneering research conducted by our faculty, which has a profound influence on business and public policy. While we take pride in this achievement, it fuels our determination to consistently pursue excellence in all our endeavours and contribute significantly to India’s growth narrative,” Professor Bharat Bhasker, Director, IIMA said.

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IIM Ahmedabad is followed by IIM Bangalore and IIM Kozhikode at the second and third spots — similar to last year. This time, however, IIT Delhi has improved its ranking from fifth to fourth rank, while IIM Calcutta has slipped to the fifth position.

NIRF 2024: List of top management institutes here. (Representative image/ file)

IIM Mumbai, earlier known as National Institute of Industrial Engineering, has risen from seventh spot to sixth this year, and is followed by IIM Lucknow, which was at the sixth rank last year.

Top 20 Management Colleges
Rank	Institute name
1	IIM Ahmedabad
2	IIM Bangalore
3	IIM Kozhikode
4	IIT Delhi
5	IIM Calcutta
6	IIM Mumbai
7	IIM Lucknow
8	IIM Indore
9	XLRI – Xavier School of Management
10	IIT Bombay
11	Management Development Institute
12	IIM Rohtak
13	Symbiosis Institute of Business Management
14	IIM Raipur
15	Indian Institute of Foreign Trade
16	IIT Madras
17	IIM Ranchi
18	IIT Roorkee
19	IIT Kharagpur
20	S. P. Jain Institute of Management and Research

IIM Indore, XLRI – Xavier School of Management and IIT Bombay have retained their eighth, ninth and tenth spots respectively, this year.

Union Minister for Education, Dharmendra Pradhan, today released the national rankings at 3 pm. This year, three new categories have been introduced — open universities, skill universities and state funded government universities. Additionally, it has also been announced that the Ministry aims to begin ‘sustainability rankings’ from next year.

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IIM A has been securing number 1 rank since 2016 under the management category, and it was followed by IIM Bangalore. IIM-Kozhikode gained the third position and IIM-Calcutta’s ranking fell to the fourth position. Interestingly, for the first time, three engineering colleges had entered the top 10 list. Last year, there were two new entries NITIE, Mumbai at the seventh position and IIT-Bombay at number 10.

IIM Kozhikode ranked fifth in 2022 with a score of 74.74, followed by IIM Lucknow, IIM Indore, XLRI – Xavier School of Management, and Mumbai’s National Institute of Industrial Engineering at the sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth spots.

In 2022, the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (IIT-D) was the only IIT to feature in the top 5 (fourth rank) of the management school rankings. Other than IIT Delhi, IIT Madras is the only other IIT to feature in top 10 B-schools list. IIT Bombay and IIT Kharagpur had also earned the 11th and 12th spots in the 2022 Management rankings.

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