All India Institute of Medical Sciences Rishikesh

How is All India Institute of Medical Sciences Rishikesh ranked in 2026?

As of the latest 2025 cycle that aspirants are using to plan 2026 admissions, All India Institute of Medical Sciences Rishikesh holds Rank #13 in the NIRF Medical category 2025 with a score of 65.02, placing it firmly inside India's top 15 medical institutions. In the same NIRF 2025 release it sits at Rank #78 in the Overall category, and in the India Today Medical ranking 2025 it is placed at Rank #19 nationally (also featuring at #7 among Medical Universities). For a relatively young institute founded in 2012, that NIRF Medical #13 is the single most important number to know: it means AIIMS Rishikesh now outranks dozens of far older government and private medical colleges. Below, this guide lays out every verified rank year by year, the trajectory behind those numbers, and how AIIMS Rishikesh stacks up against the AIIMS Delhi/PGIMER tier.

Year-Wise Rankings

The table below consolidates AIIMS Rishikesh's verified ranks across the two frameworks that matter most to medical aspirants: the government-run NIRF (both its Medical and Overall lists) and India Today's Medical survey. It answers the core question, "What rank does AIIMS Rishikesh actually hold, and in which category and year?" Read it row by row: each line gives the assessment year, the ranking body, the category that rank belongs to, the position itself, and the published score where one exists. Pay attention to the Category column, because AIIMS Rishikesh's Medical rank (#13) is much stronger than its Overall rank (#78), which is normal for a specialist medical institute competing against multidisciplinary IITs and universities in the Overall pool.

The takeaway is a steep, consistent climb in the category that defines a medical college. AIIMS Rishikesh has moved from NIRF Medical #48 (2022) to #22 (2023), #14 (2024) and #13 (2025), with its score rising from 60.06 in 2023 to 65.02 in 2025. The Overall rank improved from #86 (2023) to #74 (2024) before settling at #78 (2025), a small dip that reflects tougher multidisciplinary competition rather than any decline in clinical standing. For a 2026 applicant, the Medical column is the one to trust, and it is moving in exactly the right direction.

Ranking Trajectory of All India Institute of Medical Sciences Rishikesh

The trajectory of AIIMS Rishikesh in the NIRF Medical list is one of the sharpest sustained climbs among the newer AIIMS institutions: from Rank #48 in 2022 to Rank #13 in 2025, a jump of 35 places in just three assessment cycles. The biggest single leap came between 2022 and 2023, when it surged from #48 to #22, followed by steady gains to #14 in 2024 and #13 in 2025. Crucially, the improvement is backed by a rising performance score, not just shuffling positions: the published NIRF Medical score grew from 60.06 in 2023 to 65.02 in 2025, signalling genuine strengthening across NIRF's parameters such as research output, graduation outcomes and perception.

What this signals for a 2026 aspirant is momentum and institutional maturity. AIIMS Rishikesh only enrolled its first MBBS batch in 2012 and began full clinical services around 2013, so reaching the national top 15 within roughly a decade is a marker of fast-growing research and clinical reputation. The Overall NIRF rank tells a quieter story (#86 in 2023, #74 in 2024, #78 in 2025), because a single-specialty medical institute is always at a structural disadvantage against multidisciplinary universities and IITs in that combined pool. Read together, the trend is clear: AIIMS Rishikesh is consolidating its place near the top of Indian medical education while still on an upward curve.

How All India Institute of Medical Sciences Rishikesh Compares

To judge AIIMS Rishikesh's standing fairly, it helps to place its NIRF Medical 2025 Rank #13 (score 65.02) against the institutions sitting at the very top of the same 2025 list. The table below shows the verified top four medical institutes alongside AIIMS Rishikesh. It answers the question, "Where does AIIMS Rishikesh sit relative to the established leaders of Indian medicine?" Read the Rank and Score columns together: the gap in score between the leaders and AIIMS Rishikesh shows how much ground separates the long-established apex institutes from the fast-rising newer AIIMS, while the rank itself confirms AIIMS Rishikesh is already inside the elite tier.

The comparison shows AIIMS Rishikesh is roughly 29 score points behind table-topper AIIMS New Delhi (94.46 versus 65.02), which is expected given AIIMS Delhi has led the NIRF Medical list for years and benefits from decades of research depth. But Rank #13 still places AIIMS Rishikesh ahead of a large field of older medical colleges and among the strongest of the second-generation AIIMS network. For an applicant choosing where to study MBBS or pursue postgraduate medicine in 2026, this means AIIMS Rishikesh offers an AIIMS brand, central-institute status and a top-15 NIRF Medical pedigree, at the nominal AIIMS fee structure of around Rs 5,356 per year for MBBS across its 125 seats.