FMS, JBIMS, ISB, TISS doesn’t need NIRF; NIRF needs them!

Notable Names missing in the NIRF 100 Ranking

FMS Delhi (Faculty of Management Studies)

JBIMS Mumbai (Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies)

ISB Hyderabad & Mohali (Indian School of Business)

TISS Mumbai (HRM & LR)

NIRF Ranking https://iimking.com/nirf-2025-ranking/
Ck Top 100 Ranks https://iimking.com/Top

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1. Participation is Voluntary

• NIRF is not mandatory. Institutes have to submit detailed data + let the inspection team audit.
• JBIMS (Mumbai University-affiliated) and FMS (Delhi University-affiliated) usually don’t bother — because their brand equity, ROI, and alumni network speak louder than any NIRF rank.

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2. Parameters Don’t Favor Them

• JBIMS & FMS are placement powerhouses with small intakes, but NIRF gives very little weightage to placements/CTC (just a slice under Graduation Outcomes).
• Instead, NIRF cares about:
  • PhD faculty counts
  • Research papers, patents, citations
  • Infrastructure & financial resources
  • Number of PhD students graduated
• JBIMS & FMS don’t play the “publish 500 papers in IEEE” game, nor do they have a huge PhD pipeline.

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3. Quality vs Quantity Trap

• Private colleges literally pump out low-quality but high-quantity research → better NIRF score.
• Even “PhD in progress” faculty are counted in FQE → cheaper faculty + higher headcount = higher marks.
• JBIMS & FMS don’t fit that model — they rely on visiting faculty/industry stalwarts instead of filling rosters with underpaid PhD candidates.

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4. Brand ROI is Outside NIRF

• JBIMS & FMS don’t need NIRF to attract CAT toppers — their ROI (fees vs salary), Mumbai/Delhi location, and corporate connect is their advertisement.
• They know NIRF might actually place them below some private colleges with glossy “research numbers,” which dilutes their aura.

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5. Perception Score Gap

• NIRF has a small weightage for perception, but it’s based on peer surveys and employer perception inside academia.
• FMS/JBIMS enjoy huge recruiter love, but NIRF doesn’t fully capture “placement reputation.”

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✅ Bottom line:
JBIMS and FMS don’t appear not because they’re weak — but because NIRF rankings are optimized for research-heavy, PhD-focused, infrastructure-showcasing institutes.
They simply choose to stay out rather than get ranked below colleges where students would never pick over JBIMS/FMS for actual MBA value.

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Rank	Name	City	State	Score	Institute ID
1	IIM Ahmedabad	Ahmedabad	Gujarat	83.29	IR-M-S-8890
2	IIM Bangalore	Bengaluru	Karnataka	81.56	IR-M-S-8903
3	IIM Kozhikode	Kozhikode	Kerala	79.85	IR-M-S-8909
4	IIT Delhi	New Delhi	Delhi	78.94	IR-M-I-1074
5	IIM Lucknow	Lucknow	Uttar Pradesh	77.97	IR-M-S-8959
6	IIM, Mumbai	Mumbai	Maharashtra	77.58	IR-M-S-8931
7	IIM Calcutta	Kolkata	West Bengal	77.34	IR-M-S-8972
8	IIM Indore	Indore	Madhya Pradesh	75.68	IR-M-S-8918
9	Management Development Institute	Gurugram	Haryana	71.96	IR-M-I-1170
10	XLRI – Xavier School of Management	Jamshedpur	Jharkhand	70.63	IR-M-S-132
11	Symbiosis Institute of Business Management	Pune	Maharashtra	67.9	IR-M-C-19343
12	IIT Kharagpur	Kharagpur	West Bengal	66.97	IR-M-U-0573
13	IIT Madras	Chennai	Tamil Nadu	66.5	IR-M-U-0456
14	IIT Bombay	Mumbai	Maharashtra	65.82	IR-M-U-0306
15	IIM Raipur	Raipur	Chhattisgarh	65.03	IR-M-S-8868
16	IIM Tiruchirappalli	Tiruchirappalli	Tamil Nadu	64.95	IR-M-S-8948
17	Indian Institute of Foreign Trade	New Delhi	Delhi	62.93	IR-M-U-0102
18	IIM Ranchi	Ranchi	Jharkhand	62.77	IR-M-S-8904
19	IIM Rohtak	Rohtak	Haryana	62.6	IR-M-S-8895
20	S. P. Jain Institute of Management and Research	Mumbai	Maharashtra	62.06	IR-M-I-1044
21	IIM Udaipur	Udaipur	Rajasthan	61.79	IR-M-S-8942
22	IIT Roorkee	Roorkee	Uttarakhand	61.77	IR-M-U-0560
23	IIM Kashipur	Kashipur	Uttarakhand	61.74	IR-M-S-8967
24	SVKM`s Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies	Mumbai	Maharashtra	60.99	IR-M-N-10
25	IIM Nagpur	Nagpur	Maharashtra	60.88	IR-M-S-15962
26	Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham	Coimbatore	Tamil Nadu	60.25	IR-M-U-0436
27	IIT Kanpur	Kanpur	Uttar Pradesh	60.15	IR-M-I-1075
28	Jamia Millia Islamia	New Delhi	Delhi	60.06	IR-M-U-0108
29	IIM Visakhapatnam	Visakhapatnam	Andhra Pradesh	59.95	IR-M-U-1007
30	Institute of Management Technology	Ghaziabad	Uttar Pradesh	59.85	IR-M-S-394
31	IIM Bodh Gaya	Gaya	Bihar	59.65	IR-M-U-1006
32	Chandigarh University	Mohali	Punjab	59.4	IR-M-U-0747
33	MICA	Ahmedabad	Gujarat	59.22	IR-M-S-14875
34	IIM Sambalpur	Sambalpur	Odisha	58.59	IR-M-S-6
35	IIM Jammu (IIMJ)	Jammu	Jammu and Kashmir	58.5	IR-M-U-1004
36	UPES	Dehradun	Uttarakhand	58.33	IR-M-U-0564
37	Great Lakes Institute of Management	Chennai	Tamil Nadu	58.05	IR-M-N-16
38	IIM Shillong	Shillong	Meghalaya	57.7	IR-M-S-8937
39	T. A. Pai Management Institute Manipal	Manipal	Karnataka	57.13	IR-M-S-156
40	IMI Delhi	New Delhi	Delhi	56.59	IR-M-I-1064
41	Jaipuria Institute of Management	Noida	Uttar Pradesh	56.46	IR-M-S-3283
42	IMI Kolkata	Kolkata	West Bengal	55.42	IR-M-I-1408
43	Goa Institute of Management	Sanquelim	Goa	55.27	IR-M-S-87
44	Lovely Professional University	Phagwara	Punjab	55	IR-M-U-0379
45	XIM University	Bhubaneswar	Odisha	54.73	IR-M-U-0715
46	ICFAI Foundation for Higher Education, Hyderabad	Hyderabad	Telangana	54.4	IR-M-U-0012
46	Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology (Deemed-to-be-university)	Patiala	Punjab	54.4	IR-M-I-1480
48	IIT (Indian School of Mines)	Dhanbad	Jharkhand	54.34	IR-M-U-0205
49	Amity University	Gautam Budh Nagar	Uttar Pradesh	54.15	IR-M-U-0497
50	Great Lakes Institute of Management	Gurgaon	Haryana	54.08	IR-M-S-17295
51	IIM Sirmaur	Sirmaur	Himachal Pradesh	54.03	IR-M-S-15911
52	Graphic Era University	Dehradun	Uttarakhand	53.98	IR-M-U-0555
53	Nirma University	Ahmedabad	Gujarat	53.48	IR-M-U-0146
54	Institute of Rural Management Anand	Anand	Gujarat	53.34	IR-M-S-92
55	Loyola Institute of Business Administration	Chennai	Tamil Nadu	53.12	IR-M-S-331
56	S.R.M. Institute of Science and Technology	Chennai	Tamil Nadu	52.74	IR-M-U-0473
57	Christ University	Bengaluru	Karnataka	52.47	IR-M-U-0217
57	National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli	Tiruchirappalli	Tamil Nadu	52.47	IR-M-U-0467
59	Fore School of Management	New Delhi	Delhi	52.23	IR-M-I-1066
60	Banaras Hindu University	Varanasi	Uttar Pradesh	52.14	IR-M-U-0500
61	Birla Institute of Management Technology	Greater Noida	Uttar Pradesh	52.09	IR-M-S-354
62	Malaviya National Institute of Technology	Jaipur	Rajasthan	52.07	IR-M-U-0410
63	Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences	Chennai	Tamil Nadu	52.01	IR-M-I-1441
64	IIM, Amritsar	Amritsar	Punjab	51.7	IR-M-S-16881
65	K.J.Somaiya Institute of Management	Mumbai	Maharashtra	51.28	IR-M-S-220
66	Siksha `O` Anusandhan	Bhubaneswar	Odisha	50.88	IR-M-U-0363
67	Jaipuria Institute of Management, Lucknow	Lucknow	Uttar Pradesh	50.86	IR-M-S-419
68	Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology	Bhubaneswar	Odisha	50.68	IR-M-U-0356
69	Aligarh Muslim University	Aligarh	Uttar Pradesh	49.95	IR-M-U-0496
70	Koneru Lakshmaiah Education Foundation University (K L College of Engineering)	Vaddeswaram	Andhra Pradesh	49.89	IR-M-U-0020
71	Alliance University	Bengaluru	Karnataka	49.85	IR-M-U-0213
72	Institute of Management Technology	Hyderabad	Telangana	49.38	IR-M-I-1132
73	Jain university,Bangalore	Bengaluru	Karnataka	49.28	IR-M-U-0223
74	Jaipuria Institute of Management	Jaipur	Rajasthan	49.26	IR-M-S-309
75	Prin. L.N. Welingkar Institute of Management Development and Research (PGDM)	Mumbai	Maharashtra	49.08	IR-M-S-19472
76	Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University	New Delhi	Delhi	48.88	IR-M-U-0099
77	BML Munjal University	Gurgaon	Haryana	48.41	IR-M-U-0735
78	Chitkara University	Rajpura	Punjab	48.3	IR-M-U-0373
79	Babasheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University	Lucknow	Uttar Pradesh	48.13	IR-M-U-0498
80	Thiagarajar School of Management	Madurai	Tamil Nadu	48.05	IR-M-C-36557
81	Manipal University Jaipur	Jaipur	Rajasthan	47.56	IR-M-U-0749
82	Cochin University of Science and Technology	Cochin	Kerala	47.47	IR-M-U-0253
83	Madan Mohan Malaviya University of Technology	Gorakhpur	Uttar Pradesh	47.46	IR-M-U-0739
84	PSG College of Technology	Coimbatore	Tamil Nadu	47.38	IR-M-C-37013
85	National Institute of Technology Calicut	Kozhikode	Kerala	47.3	IR-M-U-0263
86	New Delhi Institute of Management	New Delhi	Delhi	47.25	IR-M-S-78
87	Jamia Hamdard	New Delhi	Delhi	47.1	IR-M-U-0107
88	Anna University	Chennai	Tamil Nadu	46.92	IR-M-U-0439
89	Pandit Deendayal Energy University	Gandhinagar	Gujarat	46.81	IR-M-U-0147
90	Jagan Institute of Management Studies	Delhi	Delhi	46.63	IR-M-C-32855
91	Rajagiri Business School	Cochin	Kerala	46.62	IR-M-S-164
92	Panjab University	Chandigarh	Chandigarh	46.31	IR-M-U-0078
93	Atal Bihari Vajpayee Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management	Gwalior	Madhya Pradesh	46.3	IR-M-U-0267
94	IMI Bhubaneswar	Bhubaneswar	Odisha	46.24	IR-M-I-1124
95	National Institute of Agricultural Extension Management	Hyderabad	Telangana	45.48	IR-M-S-14553
96	Bharathidasan Institute of Management	Tiruchirappalli	Tamil Nadu	45.36	IR-M-N-4
97	Birla Institute of Technology	Ranchi	Jharkhand	45.25	IR-M-U-0202
98	IIT Jodhpur	Jodhpur	Rajasthan	45.02	IR-M-U-0395
99	Institute of Management Technology, Nagpur	Nagpur	Maharashtra	44.93	IR-M-I-1048
100	University of Lucknow	Lucknow	Uttar Pradesh	44.53	IR-M-U-0524