Engineering (B.Tech/B.E.)
The Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) continue to dominate this field, with IIT Madras
maintaining the top spot for several years.
- 1. IIT Madras (Chennai)
- 2. IIT Delhi (New Delhi)
- 3. IIT Bombay (Mumbai)
- 4. IIT Kanpur (Uttar Pradesh)
- 5. IIT Kharagpur (West Bengal)
- 6. IIT Roorkee (Uttarakhand)
- 7. IIT Hyderabad (Telangana)
- 8. IIT Guwahati (Assam)
- 9. BITS Pilani (Private)
- 10. NIT Tiruchirappalli (Government/NIT)
Medical (MBBS)
AIIMS Delhi remains the “gold standard” for medical education in India.
- 1. AIIMS Delhi (New Delhi)
- 2. PGIMER (Chandigarh)
- 3. CMC Vellore (Tamil Nadu)
- 4. NIMHANS (Bengaluru)
- 5. JIPMER (Puducherry)
- 6. SGPGI (Lucknow)
- 7. KMC Manipal (Private)
- 8. Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham (Coimbatore)
- 9. King George’s Medical University (Lucknow)
- 10. Madras Medical College (Chennai)
Commerce & Management
For Commerce, the primary focus is on Delhi University colleges. Meanwhile, IIMs have
begun offering the Integrated Programme in Management (IPM) directly after the 12th
grade.
- 1. SRCC (Delhi University)
- 2. IIM Indore / IIM Rohtak (for 5-year IPM)
- 3. LSR for Women (New Delhi)
- 4. Hansraj College (Delhi)
- 5. Loyola College (Chennai)
- 6. St. Xavier’s College (Mumbai/Kolkata)
- 7. Christ University (Bengaluru)
- 8. Hindu College (Delhi)
- 9. NMIMS (Mumbai)
- 10. Shaheed Sukhdev College of Business Studies (SSCBS) (Delhi)
Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences
- 1. Hindu College (Delhi)
- 2. Miranda House (Delhi – Women only)
- 3. St. Stephen’s College (Delhi)
- 4. Presidency College (Chennai)
- 5. Lady Shri Ram College (Delhi)
- 6. Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) (Language courses)
- 7. Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) (Mumbai)
- 8. Fergusson College (Pune)
- 9. Ramakrishna Mission Vidyamandira (Howrah)
- 10. Madras Christian College (MCC) (Chennai)
Global Top 5 (QS World Rankings 2026)
If you are considering studying abroad, these are currently the top five universities globally:
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA
- Imperial College London, UK
- Stanford University, USA
- University of Oxford, UK
- Harvard University, USA
