About this project

A free, honest way for Indian colleges to understand and estimate their NIRF score.

Why this exists

NIRF — the National Institutional Ranking Framework — decides how Indian colleges are publicly ranked, yet most tools that help with it are paywalled, login-walled, or opaque. Worse, many free spreadsheets floating around use the wrong weights and quietly mislead institutions.

This project does the opposite: it explains NIRF in plain English, and gives a free self-assessment tool that scores your institution the way NIRF does — and is honest about the limits.

What makes it different

Honest scoring. It computes the sub-metrics NIRF lets you calculate exactly, clearly marks the topper-relative ones as estimates, and treats Perception as an opaque survey — never a fake-precise rank.
Validated logic. The scoring is ported from a NIRF engine checked against the official 2024 and 2025 Engineering framework PDFs.
Privacy-first. The tool runs entirely in your browser. Your data is never uploaded, saved, or shared — keeping it outside the obligations of India's DPDP Act 2023.
Genuinely free. No account, no install. Ads on the guide pages keep it free to run.

Who built it

Chitranjan Jegadeesan — a Data Analyst & Full-Stack Developer. I built this entire tool and website myself, from the scoring engine to the design. My focus is accreditation and ranking analytics (NIRF, NAAC, NBA, AISHE) — turning messy official methodology into things people can actually use.

Available for data analytics, dashboards, web apps, automation and accreditation work — see the contact page.

Disclaimer. This is an unofficial, independent project, not affiliated with NIRF or the Ministry of Education. Scores are indicative self-assessment estimates, not official ranks. Always verify against the current methodology at nirfindia.org.