National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, S.A.S. Nagar

How is National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, S.A.S. Nagar ranked in 2026?

As of 2026, National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, S.A.S. Nagar holds Rank 9 in the NIRF Pharmacy category with a score of 70.96, based on the most recent NIRF 2025 list released by the Ministry of Education (the NIRF 2026 cycle has not yet been published). This places NIPER S.A.S. Nagar among the top 10 pharmacy institutions in India out of more than 125 ranked colleges. Beyond NIRF, the institute also features in the QS World University Rankings by Subject for Pharmacy and Pharmacology, where it sits in the global 101-150 band in the 2026 edition. For an aspirant, the headline is simple: NIPER S.A.S. Nagar is a consistently top-10 national pharmacy school and a globally recognised name in pharmaceutical research, even though it is no longer in the top five it occupied a few years ago.

Year-Wise Rankings

The table below tracks every verifiable ranking for National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, S.A.S. Nagar across the last four NIRF cycles plus its current QS subject standing. It answers the question "how has this institute been ranked year by year?" and lets you see both the rank position and the underlying NIRF score, which is what actually moves a college up or down the list. Read the NIRF rows together as a trend line, and treat the QS row as a separate global benchmark rather than a directly comparable number.

The clear takeaway is that NIPER S.A.S. Nagar has slipped from Rank 4 (score 75.78) in 2022 to Rank 9 (score 70.96) in 2025, with its NIRF score falling by roughly 4.8 points over that period. For an applicant, this signals a stable but softening position: the institute remains firmly inside the national top 10 every single year, yet rivals have improved their research and perception scores faster. The good news is that the 2024-to-2025 movement held steady at Rank 9 with the score actually nudging up from 70.86 to 70.96, suggesting the decline has plateaued.

Ranking Trajectory of National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, S.A.S. Nagar

The ranking trajectory of National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, S.A.S. Nagar shows a clear downward drift in the NIRF Pharmacy list, from Rank 4 in 2022 to Rank 6 in 2023 and then to Rank 9 in both 2024 and 2025. In score terms, the institute moved from 75.78 (2022) to 73.58 (2023) to 70.86 (2024) and 70.96 (2025). The sharpest single drop came between 2023 and 2024, when NIPER S.A.S. Nagar fell three positions as institutions such as BITS Pilani, JSS College of Pharmacy and Manipal College of Pharmaceutical Sciences strengthened their research output and perception scores and overtook it.

What this trajectory signals is not a collapse in quality but a tightening, more competitive field. NIPER S.A.S. Nagar's perception score has historically been one of its strongest pillars (it scored 97.02 on perception in 2023 and 88.23 in 2024), reflecting its standing as one of India's founding institutes of national importance for pharmaceutical education. The pressure has mostly come from research and graduation-outcome metrics where newer entrants have closed the gap. The fact that the institute held Rank 9 from 2024 to 2025 with a marginally higher score indicates the slide has stabilised, and a return toward the top six would require gains specifically in research and professional-practice (RPC) scoring.

How National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, S.A.S. Nagar Compares

To understand where National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, S.A.S. Nagar stands among its peers, the table below lists the full NIRF 2025 Pharmacy top 10 with official scores. It answers "which colleges rank above and below NIPER S.A.S. Nagar, and by how much?" Use the score column rather than just the rank to judge the real distance: a one-rank gap can mean a fraction of a point or several points. NIPER S.A.S. Nagar's row is the key reference point at Rank 9.

The comparison shows that NIPER S.A.S. Nagar (70.96) trails the chart-topper Jamia Hamdard by about 15.6 points and sister institute NIPER Hyderabad (Rank 5, 75.64) by roughly 4.7 points, while leading SRM IST (Rank 10, 70.84) by just 0.12 points. In other words, NIPER S.A.S. Nagar sits at the lower boundary of the top 10, separated from Rank 8 Manipal by about 2.3 points but only a whisker ahead of the next college. Within Punjab and the wider Chandigarh region, Panjab University (Rank 3) is the closest higher-ranked peer, making NIPER S.A.S. Nagar one of the two strongest pharmacy destinations in the area.