NIT Arunachal Pradesh has been featured in the NIRF 2022. According to the NIRF Ranking 2022, NIT Arunachal Pradesh is ranked 171 in Engineering category. The rankings reflect the NIT Arunachal Pradesh's consistent efforts toward academic growth and student development.
The table below shows NIT Arunachal Pradesh’s NIRF ranking trends across major categories in 2022 and 2021. NIT Arunachal Pradesh has shown slight dip in the Engineering category compared to last year.
| Category/Stream | 2022 Rank | 2021 Rank |
| Engineering | 171 | 160 |
NIRF evaluates institutions on various parameters like OVERALL, TLR, RP, GO, OI, PR, QNR, QLR, SFC. In the Engineering, NIT Arunachal Pradesh scored 35.49.The following table shows NIT Arunachal Pradesh’s performance across all the parameters in the Engineering category:
| Parameter | 2022 Score | 2021 Score |
| Total Score | 35.49 | 34.59 |
| TLR | 55.97 | 59.59 |
| RP | 15.27 | 9.94 |
| GO | 40.9 | 41.8 |
| OI | 54.84 | 51.5 |
| PR | 4.63 | 2.17 |
Comparison of NIT Arunachal Pradesh against similar NIRF - 2022 ranked college in Engineering category.
| College Name | 2022 Rank | 2021 Rank |
| NIT Arunachal Pradesh | 171 | 160 |
| AIT Pune | 172 | 139 |
| NIT Sikkim | 173 | - |
| Sona College of Technology | 174 | 192 |
| NMAM Institute of Technology | 175 | 138 |
| Chennai Institute of Technology | 175 | - |
| CVR College of Engineering | 170 | 155 |
| National Engineering College | 169 | 191 |
| SPIT Mumbai | 167 | 143 |
| Rabindranath Tagore University (RNTU), Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh | 167 | 186 |
| CBIT Hyderabad | 166 | 133 |