NIT Raipur’s latest captured NIRF Engineering result
The opened India Rankings 2025 report places National Institute of Technology Raipur at rank 86 in the Engineering category. This is a national category rank for the institution as a whole, not a position for each branch, course or campus service. The report table identifies the institution and city and lists the rank. The accessible report excerpt used here does not provide the institute’s combined score, so no score is quoted. The 2025 result is a dated reference; it does not establish NIT Raipur’s position in a later ranking cycle. India Rankings 2025 report.
The rank is best read alongside the framework that produced it. NIRF’s 2025 Engineering methodology gives Teaching, Learning and Resources (TLR) 30% of the total, Research and Professional Practice (RP) 30%, Graduation Outcomes (GO) 20%, Outreach and Inclusivity (OI) 10%, and Perception (PR) 10%. TLR and RP together contribute 60% of the framework, while GO contributes one fifth. These weights describe the national method, not NIT Raipur’s own category scores. NIRF 2025 Engineering methodology.
What the five weighted groups represent
TLR combines measures that NIRF assigns to student strength, faculty-student ratio, faculty qualifications and experience, and financial resources and their use. Within that 100-mark group, the 2025 method assigns 20 marks to student strength, 30 to faculty-student ratio, 20 to faculty qualifications and experience, and 30 to financial resources and utilisation. This means the category is not simply an assessment of classroom teaching: staffing and reported expenditure are part of the same weighted result.
RP is also weighted at 30% overall. Within its 100 marks, publications account for 35, quality of publications for 40, published and granted intellectual property for 15, and projects and professional practice for 10. A student should not treat this as a direct count of undergraduate research opportunities. It is a national institutional metric group, and the rank table does not show how a particular branch or student participated in the activity behind those indicators.
GO carries 20% of the overall Engineering result. Its 100 marks are divided among placement and higher-study outcomes (40), university examinations (15), median salary (25), and PhD graduates (20). This category overlaps with outcomes that matter to applicants, but its composite score is not the same as a branch-specific placement probability. The methodology refers to multi-year graduation and outcome measures; the single rank does not expose the underlying NIT Raipur values for each component. Use the institute’s dated placement report for its own reported results, and keep those report periods and denominators visible when making a decision.
OI contributes 10%. The method assigns marks to students from other states or countries (30 within OI), women’s participation (30), economically and socially challenged students (20), and facilities for students with physical disabilities (20). PR contributes the remaining 10% and is based on peer perception among employers and academic peers. These groups give context to the framework, but a national aggregate does not answer an individual applicant’s questions about a specific department, accessibility requirement, hostel placement, or teaching experience.
What the rank can and cannot tell an applicant
NIRF’s Engineering rank permits a limited comparison: it places NIT Raipur in the 2025 national Engineering table relative to other institutions ranked in that category under the same methodology. It does not say that the 86th-listed institute is a fixed distance from the 85th or 87th. A rank is an ordered position, while the accessible report excerpt here does not show score gaps. Nor can the table alone tell you whether two positions reflect a large difference in results or a close total.
The rank also should not be reused as a measure of every programme. NIT Raipur offers multiple engineering branches, while the published NIRF result is institution-level. It does not separately rank CSE, Civil, Mechanical or another department. Applicants should compare the branch curriculum, course structure and admission conditions directly, and review branch-specific outcome data only where the institute publishes a matching cohort and denominator. A broad institute rank can be one contextual signal, not a substitute for programme-level evidence.
The methodology’s weights also explain why an applicant may value information differently from the final ranking formula. Someone prioritising teaching access may want current faculty and class information; another may focus on a branch’s placements or higher-study options; a student requiring accessible infrastructure may need specific facilities confirmed. NIRF combines these and other measures into one result, with TLR and RP together accounting for most of the total. It does not customise that weighting to an individual’s priorities.
Keep each edition attached to its result
The rank quoted here is NIRF Engineering 2025, and the framework cited is the 2025 Engineering methodology. Do not copy rank 86 into a later year until the corresponding NIRF result is published and checked. The 2024 Engineering rank is not included in this page because the sources captured for this pass establish the 2025 result only; a historical movement claim would require a separately verified result and compatible category. Overall, Research or other discipline ranks must also remain separate from Engineering.
Before choosing a branch, use the rank as a starting reference and check the official NIRF table for the newest Engineering edition. Then compare facts that connect more directly to your decision: the branch and its curriculum, the year-specific admission and seat information, and placement outcomes reported for a clearly defined cohort. NIT Raipur’s 2025 NIRF placement data is discussed separately from this rank because its graduate-year counts and median salaries describe reported outcomes, not the ranking table itself. A later ranking may change as data, participation and the published method change; this page makes no forecast for 2027-28.