Babasheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University

Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, has 3,374 students and 407 teaching staff across its programmes. In NIRF 2025, its law programme was ranked #12 (score 65.26/100), pharmacy #23 (score 62.29/100), management #79 (score 48.13/100), and the university #69 overall (score 52.71/100), giving it a stronger standing in law and pharmacy than in management.

Placement outcomes have improved over the last three years. In the 2023-24 cycle, the two-year management PG programme placed 72 of 76 graduates at a median salary of 12.78 LPA, up from 10.4 LPA in 2022-23 and 7.95 LPA in 2021-22. The three-year UG programme placed 151 of 180 graduates at a median of 11.85 LPA, compared to 9.85 LPA and 5.94 LPA in the two preceding years. The one-year PG programme placed 36 of 38 graduates at a median of 6.93 LPA.

Law and pharmacy postgraduates saw more modest but still rising figures: the two-year law PG placed 27 of 38 graduates at a median of 6.6 LPA in 2023-24, against 6.5 LPA and 5.06 LPA in the previous two years. The two-year pharmacy PG placed 27 of 30 graduates at a median of 8.52 LPA, up sharply from 5.6 LPA and 3.45 LPA earlier, indicating pharmacy salaries have grown the fastest among the university's programmes even though its NIRF pharmacy rank sits behind law.