Karnataka
Top Research colleges in Karnataka, filtered from the official NIRF 2025 ranking table.
Browse resolved government colleges from the official NIRF 2025 Research ranking with scores, cities, states and profile links.
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Top Research colleges in Karnataka, filtered from the official NIRF 2025 ranking table.
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Held the #1 position for five consecutive years.
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Held the #2 position for five consecutive years.
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Improved by 1 places from #4 in 2021 to #3 in 2025.
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Moved down 1 places from #3 in 2021 to #4 in 2025.
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Held the #5 position for five consecutive years.
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Ranked #6 in both 2021 and 2025.
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Improved by 6 places from #13 in 2021 to #7 in 2025.
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Moved down 1 places from #7 in 2021 to #8 in 2025.
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Improved by 13 places from #22 in 2021 to #9 in 2025.
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Moved down 1 places from #9 in 2021 to #10 in 2025.
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Moved down 3 places from #8 in 2021 to #11 in 2025.
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Moved down 1 places from #11 in 2021 to #12 in 2025.
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Ranked #15 in both 2021 and 2025.
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Moved down 2 places from #14 in 2021 to #16 in 2025.
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Moved down 7 places from #10 in 2021 to #17 in 2025.
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Improved by 10 places from #30 in 2021 to #20 in 2025.
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Moved down 3 places from #18 in 2021 to #21 in 2025.
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Ranked #22 in both 2025 and 2025.
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Moved down 6 places from #17 in 2021 to #23 in 2025.
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Improved by 2 places from #26 in 2021 to #24 in 2025.
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Improved by 6 places from #32 in 2021 to #26 in 2025.
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Moved down 7 places from #20 in 2021 to #27 in 2025.
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Moved down 4 places from #24 in 2021 to #28 in 2025.
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Improved by 8 places from #37 in 2024 to #29 in 2025.
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Improved by 1 places from #31 in 2021 to #30 in 2025.
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Moved down 7 places from #25 in 2021 to #32 in 2025.
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Improved by 2 places from #35 in 2021 to #33 in 2025.
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Moved down 19 places from #16 in 2021 to #35 in 2025.
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Improved by 3 places from #39 in 2021 to #36 in 2025.
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Moved down 9 places from #28 in 2021 to #37 in 2025.
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Improved by 8 places from #47 in 2021 to #39 in 2025.
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Moved down 20 places from #21 in 2021 to #41 in 2025.
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Moved down 25 places from #19 in 2021 to #44 in 2025.
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Moved down 12 places from #34 in 2021 to #46 in 2025.
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Improved by 2 places from #49 in 2021 to #47 in 2025.
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Moved down 15 places from #33 in 2021 to #48 in 2025.
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Moved down 4 places from #46 in 2022 to #50 in 2025.
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It is the imported official NIRF 2025 Research list, organized by rank with score and institution location details.
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