NIT Kurukshetra NIRF Ranking 2026 Out Soon

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NIRF Rankings of the Ministry of Education are released annually to rank and evaluate the performance of higher educational institutes. NIRF ranking system evaluates institutes on the basis of parameters like Teaching, Learning & Resources, Research and Professional Practices, Graduation Outcomes, etc.
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  • NIT Kurukshetra NIRF Rankings 2026: Ranking Trends, College Comparison & Key Insights
  • NIT Kurukshetra NIRF Ranking 2025: Overall
  • NIT Kurukshetra NIRF Ranking 2025: Engineering
  • NIT Kurukshetra NIRF Ranking Comparison with Similar Universities: Engineering and Business & Management Studies
  • How can NIRF Rankings help students make a decision?

NIT Kurukshetra NIRF Rankings 2026: Ranking Trends, College Comparison & Key Insights

NIRF Rankings of the Ministry of Education are released annually to rank and evaluate the performance of higher educational institutes. NIRF ranking system evaluates institutes on the basis of parameters like Teaching, Learning & Resources, Research and Professional Practices, Graduation Outcomes, etc. The NIRF 2025 rankings were released on September 4, 2025. The NIRF 2026 rankings are eagerly awaited and about to be released. After the release of NIRF rankings 2026, students can visit the official data on NIRF India Portal.

NIT Kurukshetra NIRF Ranking 2025: Overall

NIT Kurukshetra has been ranked well by the NIRF under the 'Overall' category. In 2025, NIT Kurukshetra NIRF rank was #151 in the “Overall” category. When evaluated against the ranking of the past years, it has been noticed that in the 'Overall' category, the institute's ranks have shown stability in trend. Through the years, the NIRF rankings for NIT Kurukshetra indicate the institute's strong performance in areas like the Quality of Education, Conducting Impactful Research, the Expertise of Faculty members, and Overall Institutional Management.

NIT Kurukshetra NIRF Ranking 2025: Engineering

NIT Kurukshetra is known for its Engineering courses like BTech & MTech. NIT Kurukshetra has been ranked #85 in the 'Engineering' category by the NIRF in 2025. In 2024, the NIRF ranking was #81. It has been seen that within the category of 'Engineering', the institute's ranking has fallen when compared with the previous year's ranking. Given below is the past three years NIRF Rankings & Score of NIT Kurukshetra under 'Engineering' category:

Year

NIRF Engineering Rank

Official NIRF Score

2025

85

47.98

2024

81

46.79

2023

58

49.89

NIT Kurukshetra NIRF Ranking Comparison with Similar Universities: Engineering and Business & Management Studies

NIT Kurukshetra has been ranked #85 in the 'Engineering' category by the NIRF in 2025. It is ahead of institutes such as NIT Raipur Ropar & Vel Tech in the "Engineering" category as per NIRF Rankings 2025. In the "Business & Management Studies" category, NIT Kurukshetra tops in comparison with management institutes such as Nirma University & Periyar University. NIT Kurukshetra NIRF ranking 2025 comparison with other Universities in Engineering and Business & Management Studies category is tabulated below:

College Engineering Ranking

NIT Jamshedpur

82

NIT Meghalaya

83

Jain University

84

NIT Kurukshetra

85

NIT Raipur

86

Vel Tech

87
College

Business & Management Studies Ranking

MANUU

181

Meenakshi Academy of Higher Education and Research

182

MNNIT Allahabad

183

NIT Kurukshetra

184

Nirma University

187

OUAT

188

Periyar University

189

How can NIRF Rankings help students make a decision?

The NIRF Rankings is a reliable decision-making tool for students as it is government-verified & offers data-driven rankings. NIRF offers discipline-specific rankings for fields like Engineering, Management, Law, etc. This helps the students to know the exact strength of their intended course offered by an institution. Given below are 5 parameters on which the NIRF rankings are based on:

Parameters

Weightage

Teaching, Learning & Resources (TLR)

30%

Research and Professional Practice (RP)

30%

Graduation Outcome (GO)

20%

Outreach & Inclusivity (OI)

10%

Perception (PR)

10%

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No, NIT Kurukshetra is not expensive when compared with other similar institutes. Its flagship BTech course has a total tuition fees of INR 5 Lacs for four years. Similar institutes have tuition fees of upto INR 15 lakh.

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NIT Krukshetra offers a total of 5 courses which include UG, PG and Doctoral level programmes. These include BTech, MTech, MSc, MCA, MBA and a PhD programme.

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Looking at NIT Kurukshetra NIRF rankings from 2021 - 2025, we can see a decreasing trend in Engineering category. Check below table for all NIRF rankings:

Academic YearNIRF Ranking
202144
202250
202358
202481
202585

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NIT Kurukshetra BTech hostel fees differs based on chosen accomodation of a student however, it remains the same regardless of category. Tabulated below is hostel fees for BTech course:

ParticularsHostel Fees
Single OccupancyINR 3.52 lakh
Double OccupancyINR 2.46 lakh
Three OccupancyINR 1.40 lakh

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Answered a month ago

Every scholarship scheme available to NIT Kurukshetra students offers varying amounts of benefits to selected students. Generally, category based scholarships offer 100% tuition fee waiver while merit based schemes provide between 20% to 100% waiver.

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Saurabh Khanduri

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Yes, candidates can apply for a SSP as well as NSP scholarship scheme after securing admission at NIT Kurukshetra however, benefits of only one will be allowed.

 

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Saurabh Khanduri

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NIT Kurukshetra infrastructure is comprised facilities for many sports related activities Primary facilities out of them are as follows:

  • Swimming pool
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Yes, students can apply for a new scheme if there existing NIT Kurukshetra scholarship has expired. Such students need to update academic section with their scholarship status before applying.

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