IIM Mumbai's latest NIRF position
IIM Mumbai is ranked 6th in the NIRF 2025 Management category, with an overall category score of 77.58. The Ministry of Education's result lists the institute in Mumbai, Maharashtra, among India's top 100 institutions in Management. This is a subject-category rank for the institute. It is not an Overall-category position, and the result does not assign separate NIRF ranks to the institute's MBA, MBA-OSCM or MBA-SM programmes. Check the official NIRF result table for the category and edition before comparing it with a number shown elsewhere.
The institute's NIRF page also links a 2026 submission file. That PDF is the institute's data submitted to NIRF, not a published 2026 ranking. The latest result verified here is therefore the 2025 Management rank. A submitted dataset can help explain the information supplied for evaluation, but it should not be presented as a rank or used to predict the next result.
Applicants using this page for the 2027-28 guide should update their comparison only after NIRF publishes a later Management result.
How the Management rank has changed
NIRF's 2025 report says IIM Mumbai held 6th place for a second consecutive year. Its published historical series shows a fall to 29th in 2019, followed by a return to 12th in 2020 and 2021, 9th in 2022, 7th in 2023, and 6th in both 2024 and 2025. The 2017 and 2018 positions were 12th and 14th. The movement from 29th to 6th is a substantial change in rank position across those published editions; it does not, by itself, identify which institutional changes caused that movement.
This history is useful for distinguishing a one-year result from a longer run, but it is not a forecast. NIRF publishes each edition using the framework and information for that cycle; a past position does not guarantee the next rank.
What the 2025 score measures
NIRF's Management methodology combines five groups: Teaching, Learning and Resources (30%); Research and Professional Practice (30%); Graduation Outcomes (20%); Outreach and Inclusivity (10%); and Perception (10%). Within those groups, the framework includes measures such as student strength, faculty resources, publications and citation quality, placements and higher studies, median salary, student diversity and peer perception. The weighting is specific to Management. Do not substitute the broader generic weights shown for other NIRF categories.
The 2025 result gives IIM Mumbai scores of 85.20 for Teaching, Learning and Resources, 60.18 for Research and Professional Practice, 99.84 for Graduation Outcomes, 78.00 for Outreach and Inclusivity, and 62.03 for Perception. Graduation Outcomes is the highest component score in this result; Research and Professional Practice and Perception are lower. These are scores within NIRF's own components, not standalone evaluations of a student's learning, a particular programme's placement outcomes, or employer views about every graduate. The institute's rank should be read with the framework and its component scores, not as a substitute for programme-level evidence.
The Management methodology also helps put the Graduation Outcomes score in perspective. GO accounts for 20% of the composite; placement and higher-studies outcomes account for 40% of GO, median salary for another 40%, and examination outcomes for 20%. By calculation from those weights, each of the first two components contributes 8% of the overall score and examinations contribute 4%. The 99.84 GO score is therefore a weighted index across several measures, not a 99.84% placement rate. The NIRF result does not publish those component scores separately for IIM Mumbai's three MBA routes, so the institution-level GO result cannot be assigned to one programme.
How applicants can use the ranking
For applicants comparing management institutes, NIRF offers a consistent national framework and an edition-specific comparison. IIM Mumbai's 2025 result places it sixth in that Management list. It can be one input to an initial shortlist, especially if you want a government-published institutional comparison. It cannot tell you which of MBA, MBA-OSCM or MBA-SM best fits your goals, what the admissions threshold will be, or what salary you personally might receive. Those questions require the relevant programme's current admission policy, curriculum and cohort-specific placement report.
When reading another ranking, check four details before treating the numbers as comparable: who published it, which year it covers, whether it ranks Management or all disciplines, and whether the entry is for an institution or a programme. A number may look like a direct contradiction when it actually refers to a different edition, category or publisher. For IIM Mumbai, the result cited here is specifically NIRF India Rankings 2025, Management, institution-level rank 6. Recheck the institute and NIRF pages when a later Management result is released; the 2026 data-submission file is not itself that update.