Jamia Hamdard

How is Jamia Hamdard ranked in 2026?

Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi is ranked Rank 1 in Pharmacy in the NIRF 2025 rankings with a score of 86.59, making it the country's top pharmacy institution for the 7th consecutive year. Beyond its flagship Pharmacy crown, the deemed university holds NIRF 2025 Overall Rank 74, University Rank 47, Medical Rank 40 and Management Rank 87. On the global stage, Jamia Hamdard sits at QS World University Rankings Asia 2026 Rank 498, QS World University Rankings 2026 Rank 1401, and Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings 2026 in the 801-1000 band (Overall Rank 801). In short, the single number that defines Jamia Hamdard in 2026 is its unbroken No. 1 position in pharmacy education, supported by a respectable, if recently softening, all-round national standing.

This combination is unusual: very few Indian universities lead a national subject ranking outright while also appearing in QS Asia and THE world tables. For a pharmacy or allied-health aspirant, Jamia Hamdard is effectively the gold standard; for management and medical aspirants, it is a strong specialist deemed university rather than a top-10 generalist.

Year-Wise Rankings

The table below collects every verified Jamia Hamdard ranking across the major Indian (NIRF) and global (QS, THE) frameworks for 2026, 2025 and 2024. It answers the core question an applicant asks: "What is Jamia Hamdard ranked, and by whom?" Read each row as one ranking outcome - the body that issued it, the category it covers, the rank, and the published score where one exists. NIRF scores are out of 100; QS and THE world tables publish banded positions for institutions outside the top tiers.

The clear takeaway is consistency at the top and slippage in the middle: Jamia Hamdard held NIRF Pharmacy Rank 1 in both 2024 and 2025, while its Overall (62 to 74), University (40 to 47) and Management (78 to 87) positions all moved a few places down year-on-year. The bright spot internationally is QS Asia, where the university entered the top 500 at Rank 498 in 2026. For an applicant, the message is that the pharmacy programme is rock-solid, while the broader institutional rank is in a modest correction phase worth tracking.

Ranking Trajectory of Jamia Hamdard

Jamia Hamdard's trajectory in 2026 is a tale of two directions: its pharmacy leadership is unmoved, but its general national rankings have eased back. In the NIRF Pharmacy category, the university retained Rank 1 in 2025 (score 86.59), extending a run it has held year after year and confirming pharmacy as the institution's defining strength.

The wider NIRF picture shows a coordinated dip in 2025. The Overall rank slid from 62 in 2024 to 74 in 2025, a 12-place fall; the University-category rank moved from 40 in 2024 to 47 in 2025; and the Management rank fell from 78 in 2024 to 87 in 2025. Education news portals including ummid.com reported this slide, noting Jamia Hamdard came down alongside other Delhi institutions in the NIRF 2025 outcome released in September 2025. The Medical category placed Jamia Hamdard at Rank 40 in 2025, keeping it inside the national top 40 for medicine.

Internationally, the direction is upward. In the QS World University Rankings Asia, Jamia Hamdard improved from the 501-520 band in the 2025 edition to a single position of Rank 498 in 2026, crossing into the Asian top 500. It also features in the QS World University Rankings 2026 at Rank 1401 and in the THE World University Rankings 2026 within the 801-1000 band. For aspirants, the signal is that the NIRF Overall/University/Management dip is a recent, single-cycle correction, not a collapse - and that the pharmacy and Asia-level standing are moving the right way.

How Jamia Hamdard Compares

Against its national peers, Jamia Hamdard is the benchmark in pharmacy and a specialist player elsewhere. The most directly verifiable comparison is the NIRF 2025 Pharmacy table, where Jamia Hamdard's leadership is measured against the next-best institutions. The table below shows the top three pharmacy scores so an applicant can see the size of Jamia Hamdard's lead.

The gap tells the story: Jamia Hamdard's 86.59 sits more than four points clear of BITS Pilani (82.28) and over ten points ahead of Panjab University (76.39), a decisive margin in NIRF's scoring. In the broader frameworks the comparison is more modest - a NIRF Overall Rank 74 places Jamia Hamdard outside the generalist top 50 dominated by the IITs, IISc and central universities, and its QS Asia Rank 498 (2026) puts it in the company of mid-table Indian universities rather than the national QS leaders. The honest read for an aspirant: choose Jamia Hamdard when pharmacy or allied health sciences is the goal, where it is unmatched, and weigh it as a solid specialist option for management and medicine.