NIRF 2018: AIIMS ranked the best institute for medical studies; Check full list here

While the Indian Institute of Science (IISC) Bengaluru was adjudged the overall best institution in the country, IIT Madras and IIM Ahmedabad topped in the engineering category and management categories respectively.

NEW DELHI: In a first, the Human Resource and Development (HRD) Ministry's National Institutional Ranking Framework released a ranking of top medical colleges in the country. As per the data, All India Institute of Medical Sciences in Delhi holds the top spot followed by Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research in Chandigarh and Christian Medical College in Vellore at the second and third spots respectively. Kasturba Medical College in Manipal and King George's Medical University in Lucknow hold the fourth and the fifth spot. 

The rankings for 2018 were released by the HRD Ministry on Tuesday. While the Indian Institute of Science (IISC) in Bengaluru was adjudged the overall best institution in the country, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)-Madras and Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad topped in the engineering category and management categories.

Here is the full list of top 25 medical institutes of the country as per the NIRF rankings:

1) All India Institute of Medical Sciences New Delhi
2) Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research
3) Christian Medical College
4) Kasturba Medical College
5) King George`s Medical University
6) Jawaharlal Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education & Research
7) Banaras Hindu University
8) Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences
9) Aligarh Muslim University
10) Sri Ramachandra Medical College and Research Institute
11) Jamia Hamdard
12) M. S. Ramaiah Medical College
13) Vardhman Mahavir Medical College & Safdarjung Hospital
14) Dayanand Medical College
15) University College of Medical Sciences
16) Kasturba Medical College
17) Panjab University
18) Dr. D. Y. Patil Vidyapeeth
19) Siksha `O` Anusandhan
20) Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology
21) PSG Institute of Medical Sciences & Research
22) SRM Institute of Science and Technology
23) Mahatma Gandhi Medical College and Research Institute
24) Annamalai University
25) Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College

Along with medical colleges, it was the also the first time that architecture and law colleges were ranked by the ministry. Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT)-Kharagpur and National Law School of India University in Bengaluru topped in the architecture and law categories, respectively. Among the top 10 institutes in the overall category are IISC, six IITs in Madras, Bombay, Delhi, Kharagpur, Kanpur and Roorkee, JNU, BHU and Anna University in Chennai.