NIRF rankings 2022: Here are the country's top 50 medical colleges
According to the National Institutional Ranking Framework the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi ranked at the first position with a score of 91.60.
New Delhi: Announcing the details of this year's list of best medical colleges across the country, the Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has released the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) 2022. Besides medical, the rankings have been released under various categories including Overall, Engineering, Management, Pharmacy, Colleges, Architecture, Law, Dental and Research.
According to the National Institutional Ranking Framework, maintaining its earlier record, the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi has been ranked at the first position with a score of 91.60. However , there has been a decline in the score this year. In 2021, AIIMS was at the first position with the score of 92.07.
The second spot of the best medical colleges in the rankings list has been bagged by the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) with a score of 79.00 while Christian Medical College (CMC) Vellore is ranked at 3rd position with the score of 72.84.
National Institute of Mental Health & Neuro Sciences (NIMHANS), Bangalore has been ranked the 4th position followed by the Banaras Hindu University (BHU) which jumped to the 5th position in 2022 with the score of 68.12 from its 2021 rank of 7th position.
The 6th, 7th, and 8th, position have ranked by Jawaharlal Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education & Research (JIPMER), Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences (SGPGI Lucknow) and Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham respectively.
There has been a major fall in the ranking of the Aligarh Muslim University. The university ranked at 15th position in 2021 with a score of 58.10 but in 2022 the university ranked at 22nd position with the score of 56.19.
In private medical colleges ranking, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, private deemed university ranked the top position with its overall ranking across medical colleges being 8.
The list of top 50 medical colleges according to recently released NIRF 2022 is mentioned below:
| Rank | Name | State | Score |
| 1 | All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi | Delhi | 91.6 |
| 2 | Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research | Chandigarh | 79 |
| 3 | Christian Medical College | Tamil Nadu | 72.84 |
| 4 | National Institute of Mental Health & Neuro Sciences, Bangalore | Karnataka | 71.56 |
| 5 | Banaras Hindu University | Uttar Pradesh | 68.12 |
| 6 | Jawaharlal Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education & Research | Pondicherry | 67.64 |
| 7 | Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences | Uttar Pradesh | 67.18 |
| 8 | Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham | Tamil Nadu | 66.49 |
| 9 | Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram | Kerala | 65.17 |
| 10 | Kasturba Medical College, Manipal | Karnataka | 63.89 |
| 11 | King George`s Medical University | Uttar Pradesh | 61.68 |
| 12 | Madras Medical College & Government General Hospital, Chennai | Tamil Nadu | 60.71 |
| 13 | Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences | Delhi | 58.79 |
| 14 | St. John's Medical College | Karnataka | 58.49 |
| 15 | Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research | Tamil Nadu | 57.92 |
| 16 | All India Institute of Medical Sciences Jodhpur | Rajasthan | 57.47 |
| 17 | Dr. D. Y. Patil Vidyapeeth | Maharashtra | 57.41 |
| 18 | Siksha `O` Anusandhan | Odisha | 57.21 |
| 19 | Vardhman Mahavir Medical College & Safdarjung Hospital | Delhi | 57.15 |
| 20 | S.R.M. Institute of Science and Technology | Tamil Nadu | 57.05 |
| 21 | Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education & Research | West Bengal | 57.02 |
| 22 | Aligarh Muslim University | Uttar Pradesh | 56.19 |
| 23 | Maulana Azad Medical College | Delhi | 55.94 |
| 24 | Datta Meghe Institute of Medical Sciences | Maharashtra | 55.21 |
| 25 | Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences | Tamil Nadu | 54.73 |
| 26 | All India Institute of Medical Sciences Bhubaneswar | Odisha | 54.71 |
| 27 | Govt. Medical College & Hospital | Chandigarh | 54.02 |
| 28 | University College of Medical Sciences | Delhi | 53.62 |
| 29 | Lady Hardinge Medical College | Delhi | 53.44 |
| 30 | Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology | Odisha | 53.05 |
| 31 | Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore | Karnataka | 52.83 |
| 32 | Maharishi Markandeshwar | Haryana | 52.81 |
| 33 | Jamia Hamdard | Delhi | 52.51 |
| 34 | JSS Medical College, Mysore | Karnataka | 52.47 |
| 35 | PSG Institute of Medical Sciences & Research, Coimbatore | Tamil Nadu | 52.44 |
| 36 | Christian Medical College, Ludhiana | Punjab | 51.89 |
| 37 | Gujarat Cancer & Research Institute | Gujarat | 50.87 |
| 38 | M. S. Ramaiah Medical College | Karnataka | 50.7 |
| 39 | Chettinad Academy of Research and Education | Tamil Nadu | 50.35 |
| 40 | Dayanand Medical College | Punjab | 50.32 |
| 41 | Sawai Man Singh Medical College | Rajasthan | 49.93 |
| 42 | Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences Deemed University, Karad | Maharashtra | 49.76 |
| 43 | Medical College | West Bengal | 49.73 |
| 44 | SCB Medical College and Hospital | Odisha | 49.02 |
| 45 | Padmashree Dr. D. Y. Patil Vidyapeeth, Mumbai | Maharashtra | 48.59 |
| 46 | Regional Institute of Medical Sciences | Manipur | 48.21 |
| 47 | Mahatma Gandhi Medical College and Research Institute | Pondicherry | 48.05 |
| 48 | All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Rishikesh | Uttarakhand | 47.98 |
| 49 | All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Raipur | Chhattisgarh | 47.44 |
| 50 | B. J. Medical College | Gujarat | 46.53 |
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