IIIT Hyderabad’s NIRF 2025 results
The latest year shown on IIIT Hyderabad’s rankings page, updated 20 November 2025, is NIRF 2025. In that edition, the institute is placed at 38 in Engineering, 55 in the University category and 89 Overall. NIRF’s published 2025 report independently lists IIIT Hyderabad at Engineering rank 38 and Overall rank 89; the institute page supplies the University category entry. The categories answer different comparisons: the Engineering table ranks participating engineering institutions, the University table ranks eligible universities, and Overall is the broader institutional category. These positions should not be collapsed into a single “IIIT Hyderabad rank.”
Use the rank attached to the category that matches the question. A student comparing engineering institutions should start with Engineering 38. A University-category comparison uses 55, while Overall 89 answers a broader comparison. None is a branch-specific rank, a city rank or a rank for the CSE programme alone. See the institute’s NIRF category table and the Government of India’s India Rankings 2025 report.
Engineering rank: 2024 to 2025
IIIT Hyderabad was ranked 47 in Engineering in NIRF 2024 and 38 in NIRF 2025, a rise of nine places in the ordinal list. This is a comparison within the same institution and the same NIRF discipline across adjacent editions. A lower rank number indicates a higher position. It does not mean the institute’s score increased by nine points, nor does the change identify which metric caused the movement.
The NIRF 2025 report is explicit about the institute identity in its Engineering table: International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad, Hyderabad, Telangana. That matters because Hyderabad has more than one engineering institution, including IIT Hyderabad and IIIT Hyderabad. Similar names are not enough to establish the row; match the full institute name, city and category before quoting a rank. The 2024 and 2025 report editions confirm the two positions used in this comparison. Open the 2024 report and 2025 report to check the category tables.
The 2025 University and Overall positions should not be compared as though they were later or earlier stages of the Engineering result. They are separate ranking lists with different eligible-institution sets and scopes. Nor should an institute-wide ordinal rank be read as a direct estimate of what a particular student will learn, earn or publish. Use it as one comparative signal alongside programme curriculum, faculty, research access, cost and the student’s preferred area.
What the NIRF Engineering score measures
NIRF’s 2025 Engineering methodology weights five broad dimensions: Teaching, Learning and Resources at 30%; Research and Professional Practice at 30%; Graduation Outcomes at 20%; Outreach and Inclusivity at 10%; and Perception at 10%. These weights help explain why one headline placement statistic cannot stand in for an entire ranking.
Within Graduation Outcomes, NIRF assigns 40 of 100 metric marks to placement and higher studies, 15 to university examinations, 25 to median salary and 20 to PhD graduates. Since Graduation Outcomes contributes 20% of the total Engineering score, the placement-and-higher-studies submetric represents 8% of the total weight (20% × 40%). Median salary represents 5% (20% × 25%). Those are arithmetic implications of the published weights, not estimates of IIIT Hyderabad’s component scores.
Research metrics, faculty and resources, student outcomes, inclusion and peer perception all affect the framework. The ranking therefore cannot establish that a specific branch has a particular placement outcome or that a change in rank was caused by a single metric. For branch-level decisions, read the relevant programme and cohort evidence directly. NIRF’s own Engineering methodology describes the weights and components; it does not provide a causal explanation for this institute’s year-to-year rank movement. Read the 2025 Engineering methodology.
How to use the rankings for a 2027-28 decision
Treat these as 2025 rankings inside a 2027-28 guide. IIIT Hyderabad’s own rankings page is dated 20 November 2025 and its displayed NIRF table has 2025 as its latest row. The institute’s NIRF report index separately shows a 2026 row with DCS links. Those are data-capturing-system documents; the visible index is not itself a 2026 ranking result. Check the institute and NIRF announcements for any later published edition before relying on a newer number. No 2026 or 2027-28 rank is inferred here.
For a sound comparison, record the publisher, category, edition and exact institution row. Keep NIRF Engineering separate from NIRF University and Overall; keep NIRF separate from QS, Times Higher Education and magazine surveys. A position from another publisher may use a different eligible set, subject scope, survey method or ranking year. Do not average the numbers or choose whichever looks most favourable.
NIRF is an annual relative comparison. The institute’s ranking page also lists its accreditation separately; accreditation grade and ranking position are different measures. For a student choosing a programme, combine the category-matched ranking with curriculum, research opportunities, faculty, costs and outcomes for the relevant degree group. The rank can narrow questions to investigate; it cannot answer those questions on its own. The institute’s NIRF report index links to its submitted data by year, while the rankings page shows the institute’s displayed category table.