Is biotechnology a stand-alone institute or a department?

Almost always a department. Most institutes on this page are larger universities where biotechnology is one of several programmes offered — open the profile's Programmes tab to see the rest of that institute's catalogue.

Do you show seat intake numbers for biotechnology programmes?

Only when an institute's own official page publishes them. We don't estimate or infer seat counts, so many profiles won't show an intake figure at all — that's an honest gap, not an oversight.

Does NIRF rank biotechnology separately?

No — NIRF doesn't publish a dedicated biotechnology ranking category. Any NIRF rank shown here is the parent institute's overall Engineering-category rank.

How do I find other programmes at these institutes?

Open the institute's profile page and check the Programmes tab, which lists every canonical course we've confirmed for that institute — not just biotechnology.

Discipline · Biotechnology

Biotechnology Colleges in India

Biotechnology programmes are usually one department inside a larger university — open a profile for that institute’s full catalogue.

2,151

Institutes tracked

No

Invented seat counts

Official

Sources only

Government →Private →NIRF top 100 →JoSAA pathway →

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Biotechnology — key facts

Live data

Institutes with matching programmes	2,151
With NIRF Engineering rank (top slice)Numeric rank from nirfindia.org — Engineering category (see Key figure below)	11
Canonical courses in this vertical	3
Avg Graduation Outcomes (GO)Independent NIRF sub-score — not a placement package	82.9
Top type on this list	PRIVATE (10)

Counts from Knwdle’s live directory (NIRF Engineering + programme canonical slugs). GO averages only include institutes with a stored Graduation Outcomes score.

Course branches

Canonical programmes in this discipline — each hub lists every institute that offers it. Biotech is the most-tracked branch here.

BiotechPrimaryBiotechnology

B.Sc BiotechB.Sc Biotechnology

M.Sc BiotechM.Sc Biotechnology

Overview

Biotechnology programmes are frequently one department within a larger multi-discipline university rather than a stand-alone institute, so most entries on this page are the biotechnology offering of a university that may also appear on our Engineering or other discipline pages.

We don't publish seat counts or intake numbers for biotechnology programmes unless an institute's own official page states them — where that information isn't public, the profile simply won't show it rather than showing an estimated figure. Open an institute's profile and check its Programmes tab for the rest of that institute's catalogue beyond biotechnology alone.

Key figure

Share with a cited NIRF rank

Most biotechnology programmes sit inside multi-department universities; any rank shown is that university's overall NIRF Engineering-category rank, computed live from the institutes listed here.

Infographic showing an institute type-mix bar chart with DNA helix, microscope and plant-cell icons for biotechnology colleges

Top Biotechnology colleges by NIRF

Up to 20 institutes with a numeric NIRF Engineering rank. Year-over-year movement appears only when prior-year ranks exist in our database.

11 of 11 ranked

Rank	Institute	Type	State	GO
#1	IIT Madras (IITM)Chennai	IIT	Tamil Nadu	82.3
#2	IIT DelhiNew Delhi	IIT	Delhi	81.7
#3	IIT BombayMumbai	IIT	Maharashtra	87.1
#4	IIT KanpurKanpur	IIT	Uttar Pradesh	88.1
#5	IIT KharagpurKharagpur	IIT	West Bengal	79.8
#6	IIT RoorkeeRoorkee	IIT	Uttarakhand	85.8
#7	IIT HyderabadHyderabad	IIT	Telangana	79.2
#8	IIT Guwahati (IITG)Guwahati	IIT	Assam	84.7
#10	IIT BHUVaranasi	IIT	Uttar Pradesh	86.0
#11	BITS PilaniPilani	PRIVATE	Rajasthan	81.0
#12	IIT IndoreIndore	IIT	Madhya Pradesh	76.5