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Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology

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World University Rankings 2026 · 90% range 954–2185 of 2,287 · score 26.4
Research Index =1124

How it scores

Research
35
Alumni outcomes
22
Admissions & earnings
est.

Research and Alumni outcomes are percentiles among 2,287 universities; alumni outcomes are counted per student. Admissions & earnings is the position among universities in the same country.

No official admissions or earnings data is used for this university yet. Its in-country score is estimated from its standing among its own country’s universities on the global measures.

Admissions, outcomes and alumni

Internationally notable alumni (Wikidata)
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Heads of state or government (Wikidata)
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Founders, billionaires and $30M+ alumni
not on the published top lists; estimated
Students (undergraduate / total)
4,348 / 6,266 src (low confidence: Wikipedia)

Each figure links to its source. Admissions and earnings figures are comparable only within a country.

Research Index

A · Quality
19.2
B · Strength
9.4

Percentiles among 1,305 ranked universities. Rank on quality alone: =1059. On strength alone: =1182. The Research Index scores research only; admissions, earnings and alumni outcomes are scored in the overall ranking where data exists.

The numbers behind it (2020–2023)

Papers in the top 10% of their field
7.0% (6.1%–8.1%)
Papers in the top 1% of their field
0.6% (0.3%–0.9%)
Top-10% papers (fractional count)
120
All papers (fractional count)
1,719
International co-authored
13.5%
Open access
19.2%
Papers from 2020–23 since retracted
1 (0.35 per 1,000)

Core publications, fractional counting, field-normalised citation shares. Brackets show Leiden’s stability interval. Collaboration and open-access shares use full counting and aren’t field-normalised. Retraction counts come from the Retraction Watch database and include publishers’ mass retractions as well as honest-error retractions; a retraction is not by itself evidence of misconduct, and the count is never scored.

By field

Biomedical & health sciences–fewer than 200 papers
Life & earth sciences–fewer than 200 papers
Mathematics & computer science996range 794–1148 of 1,391
Physical sciences & engineering=1232range 1025–1414 of 1,742
Social sciences & humanities–fewer than 200 papers

Position over time

bottom2019–2022: 1098 of 1,2462020–2023: 1124 of 1,305

The same method applied to each 4-year publication window. The number of ranked universities grows from period to period, so position is shown as a share of the field.

How other rankings place it

=1124Research Index 2026
–QS 2027 (not in top 100)
–THE 2027 (not in top 100)
–ARWU 2026 (not in top 100)

Other rankings are cited for comparison. The Research Index measures research only; QS and THE also use reputation surveys and figures universities submit, and ARWU counts prize winners and total output.

Prize winners

No Nobel, Fields, Turing or Abel laureates linked to this university in Wikidata.