Is every engineering college in Punjab listed here?

No — we only list institutes we can identify from official registries and verify with at least one citable source. If a real institute is missing, it means we haven't sourced it yet, not that it's deliberately excluded.

Where do the NIRF ranks on this page come from?

From nirfindia.org's Engineering category. We don't compute or estimate our own rank — where an institute doesn't have a published NIRF Engineering rank, this page shows no rank rather than a guess.

Are Punjab's private universities all NIRF-ranked?

No — only some of them, including Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Chandigarh University and Lovely Professional University in our current data, carry a numeric NIRF Engineering rank. Most private institutes in the state don't yet have one, and we don't estimate a rank for them.

Does JoSAA cover Punjab’s private universities?

No — JoSAA in Punjab covers IIT Ropar, NIT Jalandhar and the state's GFTI seats only. Private universities, deemed or not, run their own admission process, sourced per institute profile.

State · North zone

Engineering Colleges in Punjab

Punjab mixes IIT Ropar and a Central/GFTI cluster with a large private-university footprint — Thapar, Chandigarh University and LPU all carry a NIRF Engineering rank in our dataset alongside the national institutes.

30

Institutes tracked

6

With NIRF rank

7

Institute types

Government →Private →NIRF top 100 →JoSAA →

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Punjab — key facts

Live data

Tracked institutes	30
With NIRF Engineering rank	6
Institute types present	7
Largest type share	PRIVATE · 17
Geographic zone	North

Figures computed from institutes currently tracked for this state in Knwdle’s directory. NIRF ranks cite nirfindia.org.

By institute type in Punjab

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Overview

Punjab mixes a private-university-heavy base with a small but nationally ranked core — IIT Ropar, Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Chandigarh University, Lovely Professional University and Dr B R Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar all carry a numeric NIRF Engineering rank in our data.

JoSAA covers IIT Ropar, NIT Jalandhar and Punjab's GFTI seats; the state's private universities — including the NIRF-ranked ones above — mostly run their own entrance exams rather than a single state-wide counselling process.

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Share with a numeric NIRF Engineering rank

20%

Computed from the institutes listed on this page right now — not a fixed marketing number. Refreshes as our directory adds or re-verifies institutes.

NIRF Engineering ranks in Punjab

Institutes on this page with a numeric NIRF Engineering rank, best first (up to 20). YoY movement requires multi-year NIRF rows in the database.

6 of 6 ranked

Rank	Institute	Type	Score	GO
#29	Deemed-to-be-universityPatiala	PRIVATE	60.97	—
#31	Chandigarh UniversityMohali	PRIVATE	60.46	—
#32	IIT Ropar	IIT	59.66	75.2
#48	LPUPhagwara	PRIVATE	55.99	62.5
#55	Dr. B R Ambedkar NIT Jalandhar	NIT	53.38	61.9
#89	Chitkara UniversityRajpura	PRIVATE	47.34	—

Institutes in Punjab

NIRF · 2025

#29

PrivatePatiala, Punjab

Deemed-to-be-university

Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology (Deemed-to-be-university)

NIRF 2025: #29
Type: Private
Score: 60.97

Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology (Deemed-to-be-university) is a higher-education institute listed in Knwdle’s college directory. Check the…

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