Indian Institute of Technology Mandi

How is Indian Institute of Technology Mandi ranked in 2026?

As of 2026, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi's strongest verified national result is its India Today Engineering 2025 rank of #13 in India, alongside an India Today University (technical universities) rank of #8 in 2025. In the government's own framework, IIT Mandi holds NIRF Engineering rank #26 in 2025 with a score of 62.08 and NIRF Overall rank #58 in 2025. These figures place this Kamand-valley institute, founded in 2009 with roughly 1,900 students, firmly among India's top 30 engineering institutions and the upper tier of the third-generation IITs. The 2025 NIRF cycle remains the latest officially published edition at the time of writing in 2026, so the numbers below anchor on it.

The headline for an applicant assessing IIT Mandi in 2026 is improvement: its NIRF Engineering position climbed from #31 in 2024 to #26 in 2025, and its NIRF Overall position rose from #71 in 2024 to #58 in 2025. The sections below lay out every verified rank year-by-year, trace the trajectory, and compare IIT Mandi with peer IITs.

Year-Wise Rankings

The table below compiles Indian Institute of Technology Mandi's verified rankings across the major Indian and global ranking bodies. It answers the question an aspirant most wants settled: exactly where does IIT Mandi sit, in which category, in which year, and with what score where a score is published. Read it top-down by year, then scan a single ranking body across years to see direction of travel. Only NIRF publishes a numerical score for IIT Mandi, so the Score column carries data for NIRF rows and is marked Not disclosed elsewhere.

Two takeaways stand out for an applicant. First, IIT Mandi performs noticeably better in private surveys such as India Today (#13 Engineering and #8 University in 2025) than in the broader NIRF Overall list (#58 in 2025), which is normal for a young, compact IIT competing against large multi-faculty universities. Second, the recent direction is clearly upward in both NIRF tables across 2024 to 2025, even though the institute is still rebuilding toward its earlier 2022 NIRF Engineering peak of #20.

Ranking Trajectory of Indian Institute of Technology Mandi

Indian Institute of Technology Mandi's ranking trajectory is best described as a sharp 2022 peak, a dip in 2023, and a steady recovery through 2025. In NIRF Engineering the institute stood at #20 in 2022, slipped to #33 in 2023, edged back to #31 in 2024, and climbed to #26 in 2025 with a score of 62.08. The NIRF Overall story mirrors this: #43 in 2022, #73 in 2023, #71 in 2024, and #58 in 2025. The gap between the 2022 high and today shows how competitive the top 30 has become as other IITs and NITs strengthen their research and placement metrics.

The most encouraging signal for a 2026 aspirant is the consecutive two-year improvement. Gaining five places in NIRF Engineering (from #31 to #26) and thirteen places in NIRF Overall (from #71 to #58) between 2024 and 2025 indicates rising scores on the parameters NIRF weights most heavily, namely Teaching, Learning and Resources, Research and Professional Practice, and Graduation Outcomes. India Today's parallel verdict reinforces it: IIT Mandi held a strong #13 in Engineering and #8 among technical universities in 2025. Globally, the institute was placed in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 1001-1200 band for 2024 and inside the QS Asia framework, where it logged a Southern Asia rank of 90 and sat in the 351-400 band for 2024, reflecting an institute that is established nationally and steadily building its international footprint.

How Indian Institute of Technology Mandi Compares

Within the IIT system, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi's NIRF Engineering rank of #26 in 2025 places it in the middle band of the newer, third-generation IITs rather than at the very top. The table below positions IIT Mandi against verified NIRF Engineering 2025 reference points so an applicant can read its standing in context. It answers the practical question of how IIT Mandi stacks up against the institutes a JEE Advanced candidate typically weighs alongside it. Compare the Rank and Score columns together, since a few rank places can mask a meaningful score gap.

The comparison shows that while older and faster-scaling IITs such as IIT Madras (#1), IIT Roorkee (#5) and IIT Hyderabad (#7) lead the table, and IIT Indore (#12) leads the newer cohort, IIT Mandi at #26 is competitive and improving from #31 the year before. For a candidate, the practical reading is that IIT Mandi offers the IIT brand, faculty quality and research culture of the system while typically being reachable at less stringent JEE Advanced cutoffs than the top-five IITs, with a ranking line that is trending up rather than down.