Top Architecture Colleges in India as per NIRF Ranking 2025

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Top Architecture Colleges in India
as per NIRF Ranking 2025

All 40 ranked colleges in the NIRF Architecture and Planning list for 2025. Between them they span
19 states and union territories.

RANKED COLLEGES IN RANK-BANDS STATES & UTS TOP SCORE

40 — 19 83.95

What changed since 2024
Of the 37 colleges ranked in both years, 15 improved, 15 slipped and 7 held position. The rest are new to the list.

Biggest climbers Biggest falls

National Institute of Technology Patna ▲ 14 Aligarh Muslim University ▼ 12
Patna, Bihar 27 → 13 Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh 14 → 26

Manipal University Jaipur ▲ 12 Nirma University ▼ 10
Jaipur, Rajasthan 33 → 21 Ahmedabad, Gujarat 19 → 29

Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University ▲8 M. S. Ramaiah Institute of Technology ▼ 10
Katra, Jammu and Kashmir 31 → 23 Bengaluru, Karnataka 21 → 31

Anna University ▲6 Dr. M. G. R. Educational and Research
▼ 10
Chennai, Tamil Nadu 34 → 28 Institute
22 → 32
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
▲3
Technology Thiagarajar College of Engineering ▼8
15 → 12
Jaipur, Rajasthan Madurai, Tamil Nadu 25 → 33

Where the ranked colleges are
Karnataka 5
Tamil Nadu 5
West Bengal 4
Delhi 3
Gujarat 3
Punjab 3
Kerala 2
Madhya Pradesh 2
Rajasthan 2
Uttar Pradesh 2

The full ranking
Score is the weighted total; the five columns after it are the parameters that produce it, each marked out of
100. Reading across shows what a rank is actually built on.

TLR RPC GO OI PR vs
# College State Score
30% 30% 20% 10% 10% 2024

Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
1 Roorkee
Uttarakhand 83.95 80.06 95.65 89.28 75.20 74.22 –

National Institute of Technology Calicut
2 Kozhikode
Kerala 77.89 89.46 59.45 84.65 74.59 58.26 ▲1

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# College State Score
30% 30% 20% 10% 10% 2024

Indian Institute of Technology
3 Kharagpur West Bengal 77.38 69.49 84.36 89.51 66.92 81.24 ▼1
Kharagpur

Indian Institute of Engineering Science
4 and Technology, Shibpur West Bengal 68.37 72.83 54.69 79.15 66.36 58.26 –
Howrah

Jamia Millia Islamia
5 New Delhi
Delhi 67.15 69.01 46.44 91.42 86.17 33.48 ▲2

Centre for Environmental Planning and
6 Technology University Gujarat 65.73 72.22 47.68 78.06 65.14 51.81 –
Ahmedabad

7 Rourkela Odisha 65.72 63.86 66.34 74.77 66.12 53.52 ▲2
Rourkela

School of Planning and Architecture New
8 Delhi Delhi 65.11 65.89 37.73 70.47 71.24 100.00 ▼3

9 Tiruchirappalli Tamil Nadu 64.30 55.94 50.92 80.46 75.40 81.24 ▼1
Tiruchirappalli

Visvesvaraya National Institute of
10 Technology, Nagpur Maharashtra 61.22 56.11 53.54 88.04 69.83 34.81 –
Nagpur

School of Planning and Architecture
Madhya
11 Bhopal
60.69 68.75 22.83 75.69 76.45 58.26 ▲1
Bhopal

12 Technology Rajasthan 60.48 51.81 68.54 82.01 72.04 24.45 ▲3
Jaipur

National Institute of Technology Patna
13 Patna
Bihar 60.16 58.54 61.79 73.33 65.04 32.10 ▲14

Chandigarh University
14 Mohali
Punjab 59.70 68.30 47.19 69.26 75.76 15.06 ▼1

College of Engineering Trivandrum
15 Thiruvananthapuram
Kerala 59.63 62.64 39.71 88.70 58.20 30.68 ▲3

Jadavpur University
16 Kolkata
West Bengal 59.30 60.10 47.70 75.96 52.58 52.67 new

Maulana Azad National Institute of
Madhya
17 Technology
58.80 66.05 38.44 80.01 64.20 22.73 –
Bhopal

S.R.M. Institute of Science and
18 Technology Tamil Nadu 58.63 62.28 61.04 69.84 56.30 19.07 ▼7

School of Planning & Architecture,
19 Vijayawada Andhra Pradesh 58.49 57.81 30.35 80.42 69.63 62.52 ▼3
Vijayawada

BMS College of Architecture
20 Bengaluru
Karnataka 58.10 66.58 13.91 80.83 65.52 59.73 ▲3

Manipal University Jaipur
21 Jaipur
Rajasthan 56.83 65.57 44.74 73.00 59.94 10.62 ▲12

Birla Institute of Technology
22 Ranchi
Jharkhand 56.76 65.82 43.26 59.31 59.42 39.76 ▼2

Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University Jammu and
23 Katra Kashmir
56.47 72.80 43.90 56.46 53.65 19.07 ▲8

Lovely Professional University
24 Phagwara
Punjab 56.11 64.40 41.41 65.30 63.97 26.10 –

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# College State Score
30% 30% 20% 10% 10% 2024

Amity University
25 North Twenty Four Parganas
West Bengal 55.49 72.06 5.39 79.65 83.69 12.89 –

Aligarh Muslim University
26 Aligarh
Uttar Pradesh 55.11 47.01 75.26 75.51 38.94 22.73 ▼12

Manipal School of Architecture and
27 Planning, MAHE Karnataka 54.68 63.70 20.98 73.11 66.38 37.36 ▲1
Udupi

Anna University
28 Chennai
Tamil Nadu 54.60 53.19 47.36 51.24 53.12 82.93 ▲6

Nirma University
29 Ahmedabad
Gujarat 54.24 62.98 39.47 64.30 60.29 22.73 ▼10

Himachal
30 Hamirpur
54.00 50.73 34.00 82.23 68.48 36.11 ▲2
Hamirpur

M. S. Ramaiah Institute of Technology
31 Bengaluru
Karnataka 53.54 59.87 27.96 76.39 56.51 30.68 ▼10

Dr. M. G. R. Educational and Research
32 Institute Tamil Nadu 53.26 66.14 25.65 68.02 75.08 5.64 ▼10

Thiagarajar College of Engineering
33 Madurai
Tamil Nadu 52.56 55.37 32.92 71.08 51.90 44.17 ▼8

Christ University
34 Bengaluru
Karnataka 51.79 67.40 25.25 50.66 70.41 26.10 new

National Institute of Technology, Raipur
35 Raipur
Chhattisgarh 51.30 54.21 46.13 60.98 62.81 19.07 ▲1

Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha
36 University Delhi 51.00 47.40 33.35 83.20 56.62 30.68 ▼7

BMS School of Architecture, Yelahanka
37 Bengaluru
Karnataka 48.45 55.50 24.85 65.88 51.78 29.21 ▲1

Chitkara University
38 Rajpura
Punjab 48.16 51.87 31.25 72.30 56.45 10.62 ▼3

Faculty of Architecture and Planning, Dr
APJ Abbdul Kalam Technical University,
39 Lucknow
Uttar Pradesh 47.94 57.82 4.87 77.64 50.95 32.10 new
Lucknow

Anant National University
40 Ahmedabad
Gujarat 47.61 63.75 6.63 72.53 57.14 5.64 ▼3

TLR Teaching, Learning & Resources RPC Research and Professional Practice GO Graduation Outcomes OI Outreach and
Inclusivity PR Perception
Green marks 70 or above, red below 35. The last column is the change against this institution's own 2024 rank. Perception
comes from a survey, so newer and regional institutions often score low on it even where teaching and outcomes are
strong.

How to use this list
• Entrance exams. NATA and JEE Main Paper 2 are the usual routes to B.Arch.

• A rank is not a ranking of your experience. NIRF measures the institution as a whole, not the individual
specialisation. One ranked lower overall may still be stronger for the one you want.

• Participation is voluntary. A good institution missing here may simply not have submitted data. Absence is not
evidence of poor quality.

• Check the year. These are India Rankings 2025 figures, released September 2025. The 2026 edition is expected
later in 2026 and will supersede them.

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Compiled from NIRF India Rankings 2025, including the alphabetical rank-band listings, with year-on-year movement
calculated against NIRF 2024.

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