NDIM’s latest verified NIRF Management position
The official India Rankings 2025 report lists New Delhi Institute of Management (NDIM), New Delhi, at rank 86 in the Management category. The preceding official report, India Rankings 2024, placed NDIM at rank 88 in the same category. That is a two-place move in the published order between those editions. It is useful as a dated comparison, but it is not a promise that the institute’s rank will continue to rise or that a particular student will receive a particular academic or career outcome.
The 2025 listing is the ranking evidence used here. NDIM also has a separate institution-submitted NIRF 2026 data PDF, but a submission document is not a ranking result. It reports information provided by the institute for that exercise. Do not convert its publication year into a 2026 rank, or treat submitted placement or intake figures as a ranking position. Check the Ministry’s Management results page for any later published edition before using this page in a new application cycle.
Read the movement as a small change in an ordinal list
A move from 88 to 86 records a higher position in the 2025 Management table than in the 2024 table. It does not mean NDIM gained two score points, improved by two percent, or became two places better for every programme. A rank is an ordering among institutions in one edition and category. It can move when the institute’s evaluated performance changes, when other institutions’ positions change, or both. The two rank values alone do not tell you which factor explains the movement.
For a fair comparison, keep the publisher and category fixed. NDIM’s rank 86 in NIRF Management is not interchangeable with a position in NIRF Overall, a Delhi-only list, a private-college list, or a media publication’s MBA ranking. Those lists may use different institutions, criteria, years and methods. If another ranking appears in an advertisement, record its publisher, category, edition and exact NDIM row before comparing it with NIRF.
The rank belongs to the institution, not a single PGDM specialisation
NDIM’s NIRF Management position is an institutional result. It is not a separate rank for PGDM, PGDM (Financial Management), PGDM (Marketing Management), or an individual second-year dual specialisation. Applicants should therefore avoid reading rank 86 as a course-level evaluation. The institute’s programme pages describe its PGDM options; the ranking table does not disaggregate the result across those programmes.
This distinction also matters when you review outcome figures. The institution-submitted NIRF 2026 file reports placement and higher-study information for the grouped “PG [2 Years Program(s)]” category. That is an institutional postgraduate group, not a separate placement result for each NDIM specialisation. Use the NDIM placements page and its source notes for the cohort, programme grouping and year behind any salary or placement figure. A ranking position cannot substitute for that scope information.
Compare the rank with the 2027–29 cost and selection details
For the 2027–29 PGDM batch, NDIM publishes tuition of ₹7,00,000 per year, or ₹14,00,000 over two years. Hostel accommodation and optional international study tours are additional; semester-wise payment carries a stated annual convenience charge. Those current published terms are more directly useful for budgeting than the ranking position. Confirm the payable schedule and any optional charges with the institute before making a payment.
Admission is also a separate decision. NDIM’s current admission information names CAT, XAT, CMAT, MAT, ATMA, GMAT and state common entrance examinations for shortlisting, followed by its Group Discussion and Personal Interview process. Its public cutoff page includes historical percentile entries for earlier batches, not a confirmed 2027–29 threshold. A higher or lower rank does not alter those published admission steps, guarantee a shortlist, or replace checking eligibility and current deadlines.
Use the result as one comparison point
If NDIM is on your shortlist, place the NIRF result beside questions that affect your own decision: whether the named PGDM is the programme you want, which entrance tests and selection stages apply, what the current fee excludes, and what the reported placement cohort actually covers. Compare those items across institutions using the same admission year and equivalent programme scope. For placements, distinguish graduating-year data from admission-year data; for cutoffs, distinguish a historical percentile from a current rule; for fees, distinguish tuition from optional accommodation and payment charges.
The two-place change is a narrow, verifiable fact. It is not a stand-alone verdict on teaching quality, student experience, return on investment or placement prospects. The rank table does not answer how a particular applicant will perform, what specialisation will be available to that applicant, or what salary that applicant may earn. Use the ranking to frame a comparison, then follow the institute’s current admission, fee and outcome sources for the details that affect your application.
Sources and limits
The 2024 and 2025 positions above come from the Ministry of Education’s official India Rankings reports and use the Management category. The official 2025 report is the latest published NIRF Management result directly verified for NDIM in this source check. The separate NDIM NIRF 2026 submission is not presented as a rank. The reviewed ranking evidence does not provide programme-wise NDIM rankings, a student-level outcome prediction, or an explanation for the two-place movement. No such claim is inferred here.