The Ministry of Education's National Institutional Ranking Framework just issued its NIRF Rankings in 2023. The NIRF Rankings 2023 were unveiled on June 5 by Dr. Rajkumar Ranjan Singh, the Minister of State for Education and External Affairs.

The NIRF Ranking 2023 is based on five factors, including Outreach & Inclusivity, Graduation Outcome, Research and Professional Practice, Teaching Learning & Resources, and Perception. The rankings are made available in a total of 13 categories.

Top 20 Engineering colleges according to NIRF 2023:

• 1- Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Tamil Nadu
• 2- Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Delhi 
• 3- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Maharashtra
• 4- Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh
• 5- Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Uttarakhand
• 6- Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, West Bengal
• 7- Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Assam
• 8- Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, Telangana
• 9- National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu
• 10- Jadavpur University, West Bengal
• 11- Vellore Institute of Technology, Tamil Nadu
• 12- National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal, Karnataka
• 13- Anna University, Tamil Nadu
• 14- Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Madhya Pradesh
• 15- Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University) Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh
• 16- National Institute of Technology Rourkela, Odisha
• 17- Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Jharkhand
• 18- Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, Gujarat
• 19- Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Tamil Nadu
• 20- Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology (Deemed-to-be-university), Punjab