Top Universities in India and the World

 Top Universities in India and the World

Official ranking-based reference list

This document presents two distinct rankings. The Indian list follows the NIRF 2025 University category, while the global list follows the QS World University Rankings 2027. Rankings from other agencies may differ because their methods and indicators are not identical.

Top Ten Universities in India

Ranking: National Institutional Ranking Framework NIRF 2025 University category

Rank	University	Location
1	Indian Institute of Science IISc	Bengaluru, Karnataka
2	Jawaharlal Nehru University JNU	New Delhi, Delhi
3	Manipal Academy of Higher Education	Manipal, Karnataka
4	Jamia Millia Islamia	New Delhi, Delhi
5	University of Delhi	Delhi
6	Banaras Hindu University BHU	Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh
7	Birla Institute of Technology and Science BITS Pilani	Pilani, Rajasthan
8	Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham	Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu
9	Jadavpur University	Kolkata, West Bengal
10	Aligarh Muslim University AMU	Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh

Source: Government of India NIRF 2025 University Rankings

Top Ten Universities in the World

Ranking: QS World University Rankings 2027, published 18 June 2026

Rank	University	Location
1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT	United States
=2	Imperial College London	United Kingdom
=2	Stanford University	United States
4	University of Oxford	United Kingdom
5	Harvard University	United States
6	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom
7	California Institute of Technology Caltech	United States
=8	ETH Zurich	Switzerland
=8	University College London UCL	United Kingdom
10	National University of Singapore NUS	Singapore

Source: Official QS World University Rankings 2027 results

Note: An equals sign indicates a tied rank. The NIRF University category does not represent the separate NIRF Overall category.