Find colleges that fit you
Pick a course, a state, the fee your family can manage and your entrance exam. You get the matching colleges, ranked by the government's NIRF list, with a link to each college's own website.
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Fees are approximate yearly tuition from college fee notices, before scholarships and income-based waivers. Hostel and mess are extra. Always confirm on the college's own fee page before you apply.
How MBBS seats are filled
Every MBBS seat in India goes through NEET UG. AIIMS, JIPMER, central universities, deemed universities and 15% of government seats in each state are allotted by the Medical Counselling Committee (mcc.nic.in). The other 85% of state government seats and private college seats go through your state's counselling. Government seats cost a small fraction of private ones, so your NEET rank decides the fee as much as the college does.
Not shown: NIRF-ranked institutes that teach only postgraduates and have no MBBS seats (PGIMER Chandigarh, SGPGIMS Lucknow, NIMHANS, Sree Chitra Tirunal, ILBS Delhi, Gujarat Cancer & Research Institute). Rank "–" means an AIIMS outside the NIRF top 50.
How MBA admission works
Most of these take CAT (November) and then a written test and interview of their own. XLRI and XIM take XAT; Symbiosis takes SNAP; NMIMS takes NMAT. You need a bachelor's degree in any subject, usually with 50%. Work experience helps at most top schools but is rarely required.
The fee shown is half of the full two-year fee, so the yearly filter works the same as for other courses. Most B-schools charge it in instalments, and the full fee often includes hostel. Hover over a fee to see the two-year total and its source.
Straight after 12th? IIM Indore, Rohtak, Ranchi, Bodh Gaya and Jammu run a five-year integrated programme (IPM) through IPMAT or JIPMAT; it is not listed here. Rank "–" means an IIM outside the NIRF top 50.
How law admission works
The five-year BA LLB starts straight after 12th. National law universities fill their seats through CLAT (December); NLU Delhi uses its own AILET. Symbiosis uses SLAT, and most other universities run their own test or take CLAT or CUET UG scores. "See official site" means the college runs its own admission; check its website.
Already a graduate? The three-year LLB is the other route; IIT Kharagpur's law school offers only that.
NLU fees are yearly figures that include hostel and other recurring charges at most NLUs. Private fees are first-year figures and can rise each year. Rank "–" means an NLU outside the NIRF top 40; NLU Jodhpur did not take part in NIRF 2025.
"Best" is not one list
NIRF ranks the whole institution: teaching, research, placements, outreach and reputation. A college ranked 60 may be better for your branch, your budget and your city than one ranked 20. Use the rank to shortlist, then compare your top three on the college scorecard.
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Sources
- Ranks: National Institutional Ranking Framework 2025, Engineering, Medical, Management and Law lists, nirfindia.org (the 2026 list had not been published when this was checked); medical list via Medical Dialogues
- MBBS fees: EduFever (deemed universities), Motion (government), Motion (private), iQuanta (CMC Vellore)
- MBA fees (two-year totals): Careers360 (IIM fees), Cracku (top 50), Cracku (IIT MBA), MBA Universe, Careers360 (2026-28). Where sources differ, the range is shown.
- Law fees: Careers360 (NLU fee structure) and Collegedunia (BA LLB first-year fees); law ranks via Careers360.
- Engineering fees: official fee notices where available (IIT, NIT, IIEST, JMI, IIIT Delhi, Anna University CEG); otherwise published fee tables on Careers360, Collegedunia, College Dekho, CollegeSearch and FindMyCollege. Hover over a fee to see its source. Where only a CSE fee was published, that is shown; other branches may cost less.