LPU NIRF ranking 2025
Explore Lovely Professional University NIRF ranking, category ranks, scores, rank movement and official ranking trends. Best current result: Pharmacy #13 in NIRF 2025.
Lovely Professional University
Phagwara, Punjab · NIRF ID IR-P-U-0379
At a glance
Lovely Professional University is a private institution in Phagwara, Punjab. Its best current NIRF result is #13 in Pharmacy (2025). Its official submission reports a UG placement rate of 85.8% and a ₹7.4L median annual salary for the 2023-24 graduating batch. The latest student-strength disclosure covers 35,676 students.
2023-24
4,417 / 5,150
NIRF 2025
full + part-time
NIRF Pharmacy journey & 2025 category scoreboard
Rank in every category published for this edition. Open any category to understand its result and movement.
PharmacyNIRF 2025 Rank#13 Score68.59
NIRF Pharmacy journey
Rank #26 → #13 since 2018; score 45.42 → 68.59.
The rank line is LPU's all-India position in NIRF Pharmacy: #26 in 2018 to #13 in 2025. Lower is better.
Pharmacy 2025 summary
- Current rank
- #13
- Score (out of 100)
- 68.59
- Last year rank
- #16
- Movement vs previous
- 3
- Best rank
- #13
- Ranking trend
- Improving
AgricultureNIRF 2025 Rank#17 Score57.61
ArchitectureNIRF 2025 Rank#24 Score56.11
LawNIRF 2025 Rank#26 Score57.98
UniversityNIRF 2025 Rank#31 Score57.77
ResearchNIRF 2025 Rank#40 Score48.72
ManagementNIRF 2025 Rank#44 Score55.00
EngineeringNIRF 2025 Rank#48 Score55.99
OverallNIRF 2025 Rank#49 Score55.49
Placements — official numbers
UG placement rate 40.7% → 85.8%; latest median salary ₹7.4L. These are NIRF submission values, not marketing claims.
- 4,417 placed — 85.8% of the batch
- 400 chose higher studies
- 333 reported another outcome
Half of the 4,417 placed graduates earned above this and half earned below.
- Seven-year high
- ₹7.4L
- Placement rate
- 85.8%
Salary and placement rate, year by year
What this means: These are graduate outcomes, not staff pay. Median salary means half of placed graduates earned more and half earned less, so one unusually large offer cannot distort it like an average. The placement rate rose from 40.7% to 85.8%. The reported median salary moved from ₹3.1L in 2017-18 to ₹7.4L in 2023-24.
PG (two-year) placements
Latest three graduating batches.
Who studies here
Student strength from the NIRF 2025 submission.
Research & PhD
Research capacity behind the RPC pillar.
Where the institution spends its money
Faculty and staff salary expenditure ₹126.6 Cr → ₹267.63 Cr. Latest library expenditure is below the first reported year.
Year by year, 2017-18–2023-24
Keep these charts separate: This chart is what the institution spends, while the placement chart is what graduates earn. The salary line is the faculty and staff pay bill: ₹126.6 Cr in 2017-18 to ₹267.63 Cr in 2023-24. Latest reported library spending is ₹0.62 Cr and new lab-equipment spending is ₹3.2 Cr.
Official sources
Every deep-profile fact links back to an official NIRF submission.
The five NIRF pillars
Research (RPC) improved most: 35.2 → 80.5. Graduation Outcomes (GO) is the lowest latest pillar.
What the lines mean: Each line is a score out of 100: TLR covers teaching and resources, RPC research, GO graduation outcomes, OI outreach and inclusion, and PR peer perception. LPU improved most in Research (RPC) (35.2 → 80.5). Its latest strongest pillar is Research (RPC) at 80.5, while Graduation Outcomes (GO) is lowest at 54.9.
Questions about LPU
Ranking searches on the left, wider student questions on the right — every answer is based on the same official submissions.
LPU ranking questions
What is LPU NIRF ranking 2025?
Lovely Professional University's best listed NIRF 2025 result on NIRFRank is Pharmacy rank #13 with a score of 68.59.
Which NIRF categories include LPU in 2025?
LPU appears in the NIRF 2025 Pharmacy, Agriculture, Architecture, Law, University, Research, Management, Engineering and Overall ranking categories on this profile.
Is Lovely Professional University private or government?
Lovely Professional University is marked as a private institution in the NIRFRank institution registry.
Where is Lovely Professional University located?
Lovely Professional University is listed in Phagwara, Punjab.
Students also ask
What is the median placement salary of LPU graduates?
The official submission reports a ₹7.4L median annual salary for placed UG four-year graduates in 2023-24, with 4,417 of 5,150 graduates placed (85.8%). The latest PG two-year median is ₹6.3L.
What is LPU's best NIRF category?
Pharmacy is its best current result at #13 in NIRF 2025, with a score of 68.59.
How many students does LPU have?
The latest official student-strength disclosure reports 35,676 students, including 30,877 from outside the state and 1,648 international students.
Is LPU improving in research?
Its NIRF RPC pillar moved from 35.2 in 2018 to 80.5 in 2025. The latest disclosure also reports 2,024 PhD scholars.
How much does LPU spend on faculty, labs and its library?
Latest reported expenditure includes ₹267.63 Cr for faculty and staff salaries, ₹3.2 Cr for new lab equipment, and ₹0.62 Cr for the library. These are institution expenses, not graduate placement salaries.
Data source: NIRF, Ministry of Education, Government of India. Ranking cards and deep-profile facts are limited to official data published through the selected 2025 edition.