As per NIRF Rankings 2024, Anna University in Chennai is the best state public university. It's followed by Jadavpur University (Kolkata), Savitribai Phule Pune University (Pune), Calcutta University (Kolkata), Panjab University (Chandigarh), Osmania University (Hyderabad), Andhra University (Vizag), Bharathiar University (Coimbatore), Kerala University (Thiruvananthapuram) and CUSAT (Cochin).