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Dental colleges in India, ranked by the government.
Every dental institution in the NIRF 2025 Dental ranking, published by the Ministry of Education.
Read this before you read the list. This ranking is the government's, not ours.
NIRF only ranks institutions that took part. Thousands of recognised colleges never submitted data, and their absence from this list says nothing against them. If your college is not here, that is not a verdict.
Every ranked institution here links to its own official data. The "official data" link opens the file that institution itself filed with NIRF, hosted on the government's server. It carries the sanctioned seats for each programme across six years, the actual student strength, and the number of faculty. We do not copy any of it, so when NIRF publishes the next cycle the link shows the new figures without us touching anything.
Cannot find a well known name here? Then it did not submit data in this category, and that is all it means. The University of Delhi is the clearest example: it is ranked 5th among universities and 15th overall in NIRF 2025, and it does not appear in the Management table at all. Absence from one table is not a verdict on the institution, and anyone who tells you otherwise is reading the table wrong. Search the full UGC list to see every ranking an institution actually holds, or search all 14,996 colleges if yours is an affiliated college rather than a university. NIRF ranks only 100 colleges in the whole country, so most perfectly good colleges will never be in this table.
And a rank is not a fee, a placement or a teacher. It is a score built from teaching, research, graduation outcomes, outreach and perception. It cannot tell you what your family will actually pay, which is usually the question that matters most. That part we work out for you, one college at a time, free.
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All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi
New Delhi, Delhi
NIRF 2025 score 89.12 · official data: seats, students, faculty ↗
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Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
NIRF 2025 score 85.31 · official data: seats, students, faculty ↗
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Maulana Azad Institute of Dental Sciences
Delhi, Delhi
NIRF 2025 score 72.55 · official data: seats, students, faculty ↗
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Dr. D. Y. Patil Vidyapeeth
Pune, Maharashtra
NIRF 2025 score 72.36 · official data: seats, students, faculty ↗
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Manipal College of Dental Sciences, Manipal
Manipal, Karnataka
NIRF 2025 score 70.58 · official data: seats, students, faculty ↗
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A.B.Shetty Memorial Institute of Dental Sciences
Mangaluru, Karnataka
NIRF 2025 score 69.00 · official data: seats, students, faculty ↗
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King George`s Medical University
Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh
NIRF 2025 score 68.89 · official data: seats, students, faculty ↗
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SRM Dental College
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
NIRF 2025 score 68.19 · official data: seats, students, faculty ↗
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Siksha `O` Anusandhan
Bhubaneswar, Odisha
NIRF 2025 score 63.12 · official data: seats, students, faculty ↗
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JSS Dental College and Hospital
Mysuru, Karnataka
NIRF 2025 score 62.59 · official data: seats, students, faculty ↗
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Manipal College of Dental Sciences, Mangalore
Mangaluru, Karnataka
NIRF 2025 score 62.43 · official data: seats, students, faculty ↗
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Postgraduate Institute of Dental Sciences
Rohtak, Haryana
NIRF 2025 score 62.03 · official data: seats, students, faculty ↗
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Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
NIRF 2025 score 61.28 · official data: seats, students, faculty ↗
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Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham
Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu
NIRF 2025 score 60.83 · official data: seats, students, faculty ↗
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Banaras Hindu University
Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh
NIRF 2025 score 60.14 · official data: seats, students, faculty ↗
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Meenakshi Academy of Higher Education and Research
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
NIRF 2025 score 59.92 · official data: seats, students, faculty ↗
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Jamia Millia Islamia
New Delhi, Delhi
NIRF 2025 score 59.50 · official data: seats, students, faculty ↗
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Nair Hospital Dental College
Mumbai, Maharashtra
NIRF 2025 score 58.10 · official data: seats, students, faculty ↗
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Govt. Dental College, Nagpur
Nagpur, Maharashtra
NIRF 2025 score 57.70 · official data: seats, students, faculty ↗
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Govt. Dental College, Mumbai
Mumbai, Maharashtra
NIRF 2025 score 57.42 · official data: seats, students, faculty ↗
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M.S. Ramaiah University of Applied Sciences
Bengaluru, Karnataka
NIRF 2025 score 57.39 · official data: seats, students, faculty ↗
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Mahatma Gandhi P.G. Institute of Dental Sciences
Pondicherry, Pondicherry
NIRF 2025 score 57.05 · official data: seats, students, faculty ↗
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Christian Dental College
Ludhiana, Punjab
NIRF 2025 score 56.96 · official data: seats, students, faculty ↗
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SDM College of Dental Sciences & Hospital
Dharwad, Karnataka
NIRF 2025 score 56.49 · official data: seats, students, faculty ↗
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Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology
Bhubaneswar, Odisha
NIRF 2025 score 56.34 · official data: seats, students, faculty ↗
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Sree Balaji Dental College & Hospital
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
NIRF 2025 score 56.32 · official data: seats, students, faculty ↗
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Aligarh Muslim University
Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh
NIRF 2025 score 55.69 · official data: seats, students, faculty ↗
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KLE Vishwanath Katti Institute of Dental Sciences
Belgaum, Karnataka
NIRF 2025 score 55.42 · official data: seats, students, faculty ↗
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Dr. M. G. R. Educational and Research Institute
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
NIRF 2025 score 55.08 · official data: seats, students, faculty ↗
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Yenepoya Dental College
Mangaluru, Karnataka
NIRF 2025 score 55.00 · official data: seats, students, faculty ↗
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Chettinad Dental College and Research Institute
Kelambakkam, Tamil Nadu
NIRF 2025 score 54.90 · official data: seats, students, faculty ↗
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Manav Rachna International Institute of Research & Studies
Faridabad, Haryana
NIRF 2025 score 54.86 · official data: seats, students, faculty ↗
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Government Dental College, Bangalore
Bengaluru, Karnataka
NIRF 2025 score 54.80 · official data: seats, students, faculty ↗
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Government Dental College
Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala
NIRF 2025 score 54.73 · official data: seats, students, faculty ↗
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Datta Meghe Institute of Higher Education and Research
Wardha, Maharashtra
NIRF 2025 score 54.29 · official data: seats, students, faculty ↗
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Government Dental College
Ahmedabad, Gujarat
NIRF 2025 score 54.13 · official data: seats, students, faculty ↗
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Government Dental College
Kozhikode, Kerala
NIRF 2025 score 52.97 · official data: seats, students, faculty ↗
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SRM Kattankulathur Dental College
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
NIRF 2025 score 52.88 · official data: seats, students, faculty ↗
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K L E Society's Institute of Dental Sciences
Bengaluru, Karnataka
NIRF 2025 score 52.19 · official data: seats, students, faculty ↗
SOURCE: National Institutional Ranking Framework 2025, Dental category, Ministry of Education. Checked 03.09.2026. Ranks change every year, so read the current table before you decide. nirfindia.org
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Which institution tops the NIRF 2025 Dental ranking?
In the NIRF 2025 Dental table, published by the Ministry of Education, the top three are: All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi at rank 1 (score 89.12, New Delhi); Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences at rank 2 (score 85.31, Chennai); Maulana Azad Institute of Dental Sciences at rank 3 (score 72.55, Delhi). That order is the government's, not CollegeJaancho's. The full table of 39 institutions is on this page, and every row links to the filing that institution itself sent to NIRF.
How many institutions are in the NIRF 2025 Dental ranking?
The NIRF 2025 Dental table ranks 39 institutions, spread across 11 states and union territories. This page carries all 39 of them in the order NIRF published, with the score and the official filing beside each one.
My college is not on this list. Is it a bad college?
No. NIRF ranks only institutions that submitted data for a field, and thousands of recognised colleges never submit. Absence from a table is a missing submission, not a verdict. The clearest example is the University of Delhi, ranked 5th among universities and 15th overall in NIRF 2025, which does not appear in the Management table at all. To check whether a college is recognised in the first place, use the UGC list rather than a ranking.
How do I find the real number of BDS seats a college has?
Open the official data link beside any institution on this page. It is the PDF that institution itself filed with NIRF, hosted on the government's own server. Under Sanctioned (Approved) Intake it carries the seat count for every programme across six years, along with actual student strength, faculty count and expenditure. If somebody promises you a seat, the promise has to fit inside those numbers.
Does a NIRF rank tell me what the college will cost?
No. A NIRF score is built from teaching, research, graduation outcomes, outreach and perception. It carries no fee information at all. What a family actually pays includes charges that sit outside tuition, and most scholarships never touch those. CollegeJaancho works the real total out for one college at a time, free.
Whose ranking is this?
The National Institutional Ranking Framework's. The order on this page is NIRF's, reproduced without reordering, and CollegeJaancho publishes no ranking of its own.
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