IIRF Rankings 2026: AIIMS New Delhi retains No 1 spot, here's the list of 144 top medical colleges
New Delhi: The International Institutional Ranking Framework (IIRF) 2026 has released its latest rankings of medical colleges across the country, with the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, securing the top position once again.
AIIMS Delhi achieved the highest overall score of 953.32, maintaining its reputation as India's leading medical institution. Madras Medical College (MMC), Chennai ranked second with a total score of 952.67, while Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER), Puducherry secured the third position with 951.75 points.
King George Medical University (KGMU), Lucknow stood fourth with 950.76 points, followed by Pt. B.D. Sharma Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Rohtak, which ranked fifth with 949.79 points.
Government Medical College, Kolkata ranked sixth with 948.71 points and Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University (IMS-BHU), Varanasi secured the seventh position with 947.57 points.
The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Jodhpur ranked eighth with 946.00 points. Government Medical College, Chandigarh was placed ninth with 944.45 points, while the Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Delhi completed the top ten with an overall score of 942.17.
IIRF is an organisation that publishes annual rankings of higher education institutions. IIRF is based in India and aims to provide evaluations of academic institutions worldwide. It is registered with India's Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA) under the Companies Act, 2013.
The IIRF rankings assess institutions across multiple parameters, including teaching, learning resources, research output, industry integration, placement performance, future orientation, and external perception, to determine their overall performance.
The IIRF India Ranking conducts a comprehensive evaluation and ranking of over 2,500 institutions nationwide. This expansive assessment encompasses a formidable array of educational establishments, including 500+ universities, 300 premier engineering colleges, 300 distinguished B-Schools, and 300 undergraduate colleges specializing in BBA and BCA. Furthermore, its scope extends to more than 100 institutions each dedicated to fields such as jurisprudence (Law), creative arts (Design and Architecture), and the medical sciences—specifically, MBBS, Dental, Nursing, Pharmacy, Physiotherapy, and Public Health. Rounding out this extensive IIRF India Ranking is associated with the Education Post as its Print Partner, along with collaboration with Maction Consulting as a Research & Survey Partner.
A total of 144 medical institutions from across India have been ranked in the IIRF 2026 Medical Rankings, which are as follows:
| AIR | Name of the Institute |
| 1 | All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi |
| 2 | Madras Medical College (MMC), Chennai |
| 3 | Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education & Research (JIPMER), Puducherry |
| 4 | King George Medical University, Lucknow |
| 5 | Pt. B D Sharma Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Rohtak |
| 6 | Government Medical College, Kolkata |
| 7 | Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University (IMS-BHU), Varanasi |
| 8 | All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Jodhpur |
| 9 | Government Medical College, Chandigarh |
| 10 | Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Delhi, Delhi |
| 11 | Stanley Medical College, Chennai |
| 12 | R. G. Kar Medical College, Kolkata |
| 13 | Andhra Medical College, Visakhapatnam |
| 14 | Lady Hardinge Medical College, New Delhi |
| 15 | SCB Medical College, Cuttack |
| 16 | All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhubaneswar |
| 17 | Government Medical College, Baroda |
| 17 | All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhopal |
| 18 | Grant Medical College, Mumbai |
| 19 | University College of Medical Sciences & GTB Hospital, New Delhi |
| 20 | Government Medical College, Kozhikode |
| 21 | All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Rishikesh |
| 22 | Vardhman Mahavir Medical College & Safdarjung Hospital, Delhi |
| 23 | All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Mangalagiri |
| 24 | Mysore Medical College and Research Institute/Government Medical College, Mysore |
| 25 | All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Patna |
| 26 | All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Raipur |
| 27 | All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Rae Bareli |
| 28 | All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Nagpur |
| 29 | All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Kalyani |
| 30 | All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Guwahati |
| 31 | All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Deoghar |
| 32 | Patna Medical College, Patna |
| 32 | All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bilaspur |
| 33 | Seth GS Medical College, Mumbai |
| 33 | All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Gorakhpur |
| 34 | S N Medical College, Agra |
| 35 | Government Medical College, Amritsar |
| 36 | Gajra Raja Medical College, Gwalior |
| 37 | Government Medical College, Nagpur |
| 38 | SMS Medical College, Jaipur |
| 39 | Calcutta National Medical College, Kolkata |
| 40 | Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Medical College, Indore |
| 41 | Government Medical College, Thiruvananthapuram |
| 42 | Government Medical College, Patiala |
| 43 | Gandhi Medical College, Secunderabad |
| 44 | Madurai Medical College, Madurai |
| 45 | Bengaluru Medical College and Research Institute, Bengaluru |
| 46 | Gandhi Medical College, Bhopal |
| 47 | Shri M. P. Shah Government Medical College, Jamnagar |
| 48 | Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Medical College, Jabalpur |
| 49 | Government Medical College, Aurangabad |
| 50 | Guntur Medical College, Guntur |
| 51 | Osmania Medical College, Hyderabad |
| 52 | Nil Ratan Sircar Medical College, Kolkata |
| 53 | GSVM Medical College, Kanpur |
| 54 | Bankura Sammilani Medical College, Bankura |
| 55 | Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education & Research, Kolkata |
| 56 | Karnataka Medical College and Research Institute Hubballi |
| 57 | Kurnool Medical College, Kurnool |
| 58 | Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi |
| 59 | Rangaraya Medical College, Kakinada |
| 60 | Kakatiya Medical College, Warangal |
| 61 | Sardar Patel Medical College, Bikaner |
| 62 | B. J. Medical College, Ahmedabad |
| 63 | Thanjavur Medical College, Thanjavur |
| 64 | Veer Surendra Sai Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Burla |
| 65 | Gauhati Medical College, Guwahati |
| 66 | Government Medical College, Kottayam |
| 67 | Kilpauk Medical College, Chennai |
| 68 | Aligarh Muslim University, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Aligarh |
| 69 | S V Medical College, Tirupati |
| 70 | Motilal Nehru Medical College, Allahabad |
| 71 | Rabindranath Tagore Medical College, Udaipur |
| 72 | Vijayanagara Institute of Medical Science, Bellary |
| 73 | M G M Medical College, Jamshedpur |
| 74 | Maharaja Krishna Chandra Gajapati (MKCG) Medical College, Berhampur |
| 75 | Government Medical College, Miraj |
| 76 | Dr. Vaishampayan Memorial Medical College, Solapur |
| 77 | Pt. J N M Medical College, Raipur |
| 78 | Goa Medical College, Panaji |
| 79 | Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences, Ranchi |
| 80 | Government Medical College, Srinagar |
| 81 | Armed Forces Medical College, Pune |
| 82 | Shyam Shah Medical College, Rewa |
| 83 | Smt. N.H.L. Municipal Medical College, Ahmedabad |
| 84 | Byramjee Jeejeebhoy Government Medical College, Pune |
| 85 | Government Medical College, Surat |
| 85 | Atal Bihari Vajpayee Institute of Medical Sciences and Dr. RML Hospital, New Delhi |
| 86 | T. D. Medical College, Allappuzha |
| 87 | Topiwala National Medical College, Mumbai |
| 88 | Dr. S. N. Medical College, Jodhpur |
| 89 | Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Ajmer |
| 90 | Tirunelveli Medical College, Tirunelveli |
| 91 | Chengalpattu Medical College, Chengalpattu |
| 92 | Coimbatore Medical College, Coimbatore |
| 93 | Indira Gandhi Government Medical College & Hospital, Nagpur |
| 94 | L.L.R.M. Medical College, Meerut |
| 95 | Maharani Laxmi Bai Medical College, Jhansi |
| 96 | Indira Gandhi Medical College, Shimla |
| 97 | North Bengal Medical College, Darjeeling |
| 98 | Burdwan Medical College, Burdwan |
| 99 | Silchar Medical College, Silchar |
| 100 | Assam Medial College, Dibrugarh |
| 101 | Darbhanga Medical College, Darbhanga |
| 102 | Shaheed Nirmal Mahto Medical College & Hospital, Dhanbad (Patliputra Medical College) |
| 103 | Anugrah Narayan Magadh Medical College, Gaya |
| 104 | Baba Raghav Das Medical College, Gorakhpur |
| 105 | Government Medical College, Jammu |
| 106 | Guru Gobind Singh Medical College, Faridkot |
| 107 | SRTR Medical College, Ambajogai |
| 108 | Nalanda Medical College, Patna |
| 109 | Government Siddhartha Medical College, Vijayawada |
| 110 | Government Medical College, Thrissur |
| 111 | Annamalai University - Government Cuddalore Medical College (erstwhile Rajah Muthiah Medical College) |
| 112 | Dr. Shankarrao Chavan Government Medical College, Nanded |
| 113 | Government Medical College, Kota |
| 114 | Sri Bhausaheb Hire Government Medical College, Dhule |
| 115 | Sher-I-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, Srinagar |
| 116 | Shri. Vasantrao Naik Government Medical College, Yavatmal |
| 117 | Government Erode Medical College & Hospital, Perundurai (IRT Perundurai Medical College) |
| 118 | Government Medical College, Bhavnagar |
| 119 | Rajiv Gandhi Medical College and Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Hospital, Thane |
| 120 | Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay Medical College, Rajkot |
| 121 | Dr. Rajendra Prasad Government Medical College, Tanda |
| 122 | Government Medical College, Kannur (Academy of Medical Sciences) |
| 123 | Government Mohan Kumaramangalam Medical College, Salem |
| 124 | Shri Krishna Medical College, Muzaffarpur |
| 125 | Regional Institute of Medical Sciences, Imphal |
| 126 | Surat Municipal Institute of Medical Education & Research, Surat |
| 127 | Government Medical College, Ananthapuram |
| 128 | Chhattisgarh Institute of Medical Sciences, Bilaspur |
| 129 | Government Medical College (Prev. Uttarakhand Forest Hospital Trust Med.Col.), Haldwani |
| 130 | Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Bhagalpur |
| 131 | Agartala Government Medical College,Agartala |
| 132 | Uttar Pradesh University of Medical Sciences, (U.P. Rural Insttitute of Medical Sciences & Research), Etawah |
| 133 | Belagavi Institute of Medical Sciences, Belagavi |
| 134 | Veer Chandra Singh Garhwali Government Institute of Medical Science & Research, Srinagar |
| 135 | Government Vellore Medical College, Vellore |
| 136 | Bidar Institute of Medical Sciences, Bidar |
| 137 | Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation Medical Education Trust Medical College, Ahmedabad |
| 138 | Indira Gandhi Medical College & Research Institute, Puducherry |
| 139 | Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences, Adilabad |
| 140 | Late Shri Lakhi Ram Agrawal Memorial Govt. Medical College, Raigarh |
| 141 | H.B.T. Medical College & Dr. R.N. Cooper Municipal General Hospital, Mumbai |
| 142 | Doon Medical College, Dehradun |
| 143 | Government Medical College & ESIC Hospital, Coimbatore |
| 144 | Government Medical College, Dungarpur |
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