NIT Raipur Ranking 2026

NIT Raipur has not been ranked in international rankings because it still hasn’t reached the level where ranking bodies would consider it credible enough to be ranked. They consider a number of criteria while evaluating colleges such as Employment Reputation, Ph.D. faculty, Citations per faculty, Intentional students, and Intentional students. Sadly, NIT Raipur is way behind other NITs at least on the basis of the aforementioned criteria. 

Here is a short comparison between NIT Raipur and NIT Rourkela that will help you understand this better

• NIT Raipur was formerly known as GEC Raipur while NIT Rourkela was initially known as Formerly known as REC Rourkela
• NIT Raipur gained the status of NIT in 2005 while NIT Rourkela upgraded to the status of NIT in 2005
• NIT Raipur Overall ranking by NIRF is 101 out of 200 colleges in India in 2023 while that of NIT Rourkela is 37 out of 200 colleges in India in 2023 16th among nits
• NIT Raipur has a 100-acre campus while the new campus will be 300-acre. NIT Rourkela, on the other hand, has a 1200-acre campus that is the 2nd largest after IIT Kharagpur.
• NIT Raipur has a poor research culture while NIT Rourkela has an active research culture.

The above-stated points prove further why NIT Raipur hasn't been included in international rankings yet while NIT Rourkela has.