ILBS in NIRF Medical rankings
The latest NIRF Medical table located for the Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences (ILBS) is the 2025 edition: it places the institute at rank 28, with an overall score of 59.22 out of 100. In the same Medical category, ILBS was rank 34 in 2024 with 56.89, and rank 23 in 2023 with 59.59. The three-year sequence is therefore 23, 34, 28. The latest movement is upward by six places from 2024, but ILBS remains five places below its 2023 position. Its score rose by 2.33 points from 2024 to 2025, while remaining 0.37 below 2023. Both the place and score comparisons matter: rank depends on other institutions’ results as well as ILBS’s own score, so the 2024-to-2025 movement does not by itself show why the position changed.
These are NIRF’s national Medical-category results, not a ranking of every liver institute, hepatology department, or individual course. The publisher identifies ILBS with institute ID IR-D-U-0106 in the Medical tables. The score is a composite, not a direct measure of clinical outcomes, an individual programme’s teaching, or the experience a particular student will have. Read it as one comparable national signal about the institute under NIRF’s stated framework.
What the score is built from
For Medical in NIRF 2025, Teaching, Learning and Resources (TLR) and Research and Professional Practice (RPC) each carry 30% of the composite; Graduation Outcomes (GO) carries 20%; Outreach and Inclusivity (OI) and Perception carry 10% each. ILBS’s 2025 component scores, each reported on a 100-point scale, were TLR 85.08, RPC 44.90, GO 54.95, OI 59.70, and Perception 32.65. Its highest component was TLR; Perception and RPC were lower. These components help explain the shape of the composite, but they are not standalone quality grades or direct comparisons with a course-specific benchmark.
The Medical methodology shows why “Graduation Outcomes” should not be read as a simple placement rate. It includes placement and higher studies, examination performance, the number of postgraduate students graduating, and the number of super-specialty students graduating. The framework also includes faculty and student strength, faculty qualifications and experience, financial resources, research output and citations, diversity, accessibility, and a peer-perception survey. The category’s weighting means a strong score in one area can coexist with weaker scores elsewhere. It also means the overall rank is not a substitute for checking the exact programme, curriculum, clinical exposure, admissions conditions, costs, or outcomes that matter to an applicant.
Do not mix the University and Medical tables
NIRF also reports a separate University category. Its 2025 University table lists ILBS at rank 27, score 66.65, under institute ID NIRF-UNIV-283. That is a different category and ID from the Medical result, which is rank 28 and score 59.22. The University figure is not an alternative Medical rank and should not be combined into a single trend line with Medical results. The two tables use different comparison groups and should be interpreted independently. For an applicant assessing health-sciences training, the Medical series is the closer category match; the University result adds a broader institutional comparison, not a course-level assessment.
How to use this result for a 2027 shortlist
For a 2027 applicant, the 2025 rank is the newest Medical result verified in the NIRF pages reviewed for this article. It is a published historical result, not a forecast of ILBS’s 2027 standing. No 2027 ranking or 2027 outcome is inferred from it. Before relying on the number, open the current NIRF Medical table and confirm the edition, institute ID, rank and score. NIRF’s ranking pages can change as a new edition is released; the ranking should be refreshed against the newest public table rather than rolling a prior score forward.
Use the component profile to decide what to investigate next. The contrast between TLR at 85.08 and Perception at 32.65 in 2025 is a prompt to inspect the underlying evidence and your own decision criteria, not proof that teaching is strong or reputation is poor in every context. NIRF publishes the framework and the institute’s submitted data separately; the public rank table does not answer every question about a specific programme. Ask which ILBS qualification you are considering, who teaches it, how much supervised clinical work it includes, what the current admission notice requires, and what fees and living arrangements apply. Check programme-specific details against the latest official ILBS prospectus and notice rather than using the rank to fill gaps.
The year-to-year movement should also be read with restraint. From 2023 to 2024, the rank moved down eleven places and the score fell 2.70 points. From 2024 to 2025, the rank improved six places while the score increased 2.33 points. Across the full 2023–2025 window, ILBS’s rank ended five places lower than in 2023 and its score 0.37 points lower. This is a short three-edition series, not evidence of a durable trajectory. A change in rank can reflect score changes at ILBS, changes among other participating institutions, or both. Applicants should not treat a one-edition improvement as proof that a programme or student outcome has improved.
For a fair comparison, select another institution only after matching the publisher, ranking year and category. A Medical rank should be compared with another Medical rank from the same NIRF edition. Do not compare ILBS’s University result with another institute’s Medical rank, or place NIRF beside an unrelated international subject table without explaining the different scope and method. Then check whether the listed programme, campus and student group are actually relevant to your plans. Rankings can help narrow a shortlist; they cannot settle fit, affordability, eligibility or clinical training on their own.
Evidence and update note
The figures above retain their NIRF publication years and categories. The 2025 Medical methodology assigns the weights stated here. The ranking tables are publisher-level institutional results; they do not establish a 2027 admissions rule or programme-specific outcome. Recheck the official NIRF Medical page when the next edition is published and verify ILBS’s exact institute ID before updating this comparison.