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    Home / News / India News / QS-Rankings: IITs, IISc among top-200, 24 Indian institutes in list
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    QS-Rankings: IITs, IISc among top-200, 24 Indian institutes in list

    QS-Rankings: IITs, IISc among top-200, 24 Indian institutes in list

    By Gogona Saikia
    Jun 07, 2018
    09:46 am

    What's the story

    Three Indian institutes have made it to the top-200 in the QS World University Rankings 2019, with IIT-Bombay jumping 17 places to displace IIT-Delhi as the topper.

    While IIT-Delhi remained at the 172nd position, same as last year, IIT-Bombay was ranked 162nd. IISc (Bangalore), at 170th (20 places up) too left IIT-Delhi behind.

    Overall, 24 Indian institutes featured in the list, up from 20.

    IITs

    Six IITs/IISc improved their rank, IIT-Delhi and IIT-Madras remained stable

    Of these 24, seven improved their rank, nine remained stable, and five newly entered the list.

    Three dropped in ranks.

    IIT-Bombay's growth has been dramatic: last year, it jumped 40 places to enter the top-200.

    Meanwhile, despite improvement, IISc couldn't re-enter the top-150.

    Other IITs that made it to the list are IIT-Madras (264), IIT-Kanpur (283), IIT-Kharagpur (295), IIT-Roorkee (381) and IIT-Guwahati (472).

    Others

    The other Indian institutes in the top-1,000

    Other prestigious institutes that made it to the top-1,000 include University of Delhi, University of Hyderabad, University of Calcutta and University of Mumbai.

    Jadavpur University, Anna University, Manipal University, Savitribai Phule Pune University and Thapar University also featured.

    Jamia Millia Islamia, AMU, BHU, BITS and VIT made their mark.

    Amity University and Amrita University's impressive performance gained them the honors.

    Improvement

    The factors behind Indian institutes' impressive performance

    According to Ben Sowter, QS Research Director, "The positive performance by India's institutions is symptomatic of a successful year for the country's higher-education system."

    The prime factor behind this success is "improvements in QS's reputational-indicators, which account for insights of 83,000 academics and 42,000 employers," he added.

    "Seventeen Indian universities improve their rank for Academic Reputation, while 13 improve their rank for Employer Reputation."

    Challenges

    India's research is improving, but slower than international competitors

    Another driving factor was research impact, Sowter said. "Research produced by the faculty at 19 Indian universities ranked have yielded, cumulatively, 803,000 citations -85,000 more than the 2018 rankings, which is creditworthy."

    But Indian institutes' rise in citations-per-faculty rate (46.90 to 50.74) is quite below the global figure (51.74 to 60.03), he added.

    "India's universities are also struggling to internationalize in an increasingly competitive international education market."

    Quote

    HRD Ministry reacts to the development

    "This is an affirmation of faith in the premier Indian higher educational institutions and an endorsement of the effectiveness of the measures being taken by the Indian government to improve ranking of Indian institutions," said R Subrahmanyam, Secretary, Higher Education, HRD Ministry.

    International

    Globally, MIT leads the list 7th year in a row

    Worldwide, Massachusetts Institute of Technology still remains the leader for the seventh consecutive year.

    It is followed by Stanford University, Harvard University, Caltech and Oxford University.

    Oxford overtook Cambridge for the first time to become UK's top-ranked institute.

    This was the 15th edition of the QS World University Rankings by global higher-education analysts QS Quacquarelli Symonds. A thousand institutes across 85 countries were ranked.

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