Nirma University (NU) is a

private university Private universities and private colleges are higher education institutions not operated, owned, or institutionally funded by governments. However, they often receive tax breaks, public student loans, and government grants. Depending on the count ...

located in

Ahmedabad Ahmedabad ( ), also spelled Amdavad (), is the most populous city in the Indian state of Gujarat. It is the administrative headquarters of the Ahmedabad district and the seat of the Gujarat High Court. Ahmedabad's population of 5,570,585 ...

, Gujarat, India. It functions under the aegis of the Nirma Education and Research Foundation (NERF). The Gujarat Government has granted "Centre of Excellence" status to Nirma University. The university received the Centre for Excellence status from the Government of Gujarat in January 2022. The university has been recently awarded A+ grade by

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(NAAC) in the third cycle of re-accreditation. This grade is a hallmark of very high academic quality, including education, research and extension.

Academics

The Institute of Technology offers B.Tech. programmes. The Institute of Management offers postgraduate, doctoral and executive programmes in management. The Institute of Pharmacy offers pharmaceutical education at the undergraduate, postgraduate, doctoral and postdoctoral levels. The Institute of Science offers postgraduate programmes in M.Sc. in the fields

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biochemistry Biochemistry, or biological chemistry, is the study of chemical processes within and relating to living organisms. A sub-discipline of both chemistry and biology, biochemistry may be divided into three fields: structural biology, enzymology, a ...

and

microbiology Microbiology () is the branches of science, scientific study of microorganisms, those being of unicellular organism, unicellular (single-celled), multicellular organism, multicellular (consisting of complex cells), or non-cellular life, acellula ...

. Third year students of Institute of Architecture and Planning, Nirma University have shown extraordinary creativity by transforming waste materials into innovative furniture as part of their semester project. NIRF Ranking 2024 List : In the management category, 5 institutes from the state are in the top 100, with IIM Ahmedabad being the first. MICA is ranked 32nd while Nirma University is ranked 55th, PDEU is ranked 89th. Nirma University was awarded the prestigious 5 Star Plus highest rating in the 'University' category under the Gujarat State Institutional Ratings Framework (GSIRF) 2023-24.

Rankings

The university was ranked in the 100–150 band overall in India by the

National Institutional Ranking Framework National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) is a ranking methodology released annually by the Ministry of Education, Government of India, to rank institutions of higher education in India. The framework was approved by the former Ministr ...

(NIRF) in 2024. It was also ranked in the 101-150 band in the engineering ranking, 55th in the management ranking and 37th in the pharmacy ranking in 2024. Nirma University was ranked at 97 in India in the

SCImago Institutions Rankings The SCImago Institutions Rankings (SIR) since 2009 has published its international ranking of worldwide research institutions, the SIR World Report. The SIR World Report is the work of the SCImago Research Group,Pranav Mistry Pranav Mistry (born 14 May 1981) is an Indian computer scientist and inventor. He is the former President and CEO of STAR Labs (Samsung Technology & Advanced Research Labs). He is currently the founder and CEO of TWO, an Artificial Reality star ...

, computer scientist *

Jay Shah Jay Amitbhai Shah (born 22 September 1988) is an Indian cricket administrator and businessman, and the Chairman of the International Cricket Council ( ICC) since December 2024. He was the President of the Asian Cricket Council, establishing h ...

, son of

Amit Shah Amitbhai Anilchandra Shah (born 22 October 1964) is an Indian politician who is currently serving as the 32nd Ministry of Home Affairs (India), Minister of Home Affairs since May 2019 and the 1st Ministry of Co-operation, Minister of Co-operat ...

and Chairman of ICC and Secretary of

BCCI The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is the principal national governing body of the sport of cricket in India. Its headquarters are situated at the Cricket Centre in Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai. BCCI is the wealthiest governing body ...

. *

Minal Rohit Minal Rohit is an Indian scientist and systems engineer with the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). She helped send the '' Mangalyaan'' space probe to Mars. After graduating from Nirma Institute of Technology, Rohit joined the ISRO. Sh ...

ISRO The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO ) is India's national space agency, headquartered in Bengaluru, Karnataka. It serves as the principal research and development arm of the Department of Space (DoS), overseen by the Prime Minister o ...

scientist who worked on ''Mangalyaan''

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