QS ranks IIT Bombay as India’s No. 1 university for 2019-20; IIT Delhi, IISc among top 200

NEW DELHI, JUNE 19: The Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB), IIT Delhi, Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore, all the three top institutions from India have retained their position among the top 200 Universities in the world, in recently released QS World University Rankings 2020. IIT Bombay has been once again ranked as the best institution from India, ranked at 152.

IISc has been ranked second in the world for Citations per Faculty, a big leap has been taken by IIT Kharagpur which has jumped 14 places compared to last year, it has been ranked 281. The top ranked IIT Bombay has an overall score of 49.4, and a major reason for its improvement of 10 ranks has been ‘Employer Reputation’, where it has scored 71.2.

As many as 23 institutions have been ranked from India with IITs dominating the list once again. The IIT Bombay has jumped 10 positions this year as it was ranked 162 in 2019. However, the other two top institutions from the country, IIT Delhi and IISc though have retained their position among the top 200 but, have slipped 10 and 14 ranks respectively from their previous year’s ranking. These three are also the only three public institutions accorded the status of Institutions of Eminence (IoE) by the Government of India last year.

There are six more institutions among the top 500 globally, which include five IITs. The IIT Madras has been ranked 271, IIT Kharagpur (281), IIT Kanpur (291), IIT Roorkee (383), University of Delhi (474) and IIT Guwahati (491).

R. Subrahmanyam, Secretary, Higher Education, Ministry of Human Resource Development congratulating the institutions over their achievement expressed his happiness over twitter. He wrote, “IISc is ranked 2nd in the world for Citations per Faculty in the QS global best universities 2020 ranking released today. Congratulations to the team at IISc! One of the fastest rising institutions in the world rankings is IIT Kharagpur which jumped up 14 places compared to last year. Congratulations!”

Globally, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has been ranked top for the eighth straight year. It is followed by Stanford University and Harvard University at second and third position. Our of the top 10 Universities in the world nine are from the United States (5) and United Kingdom (4).

According to QS, This year’s ranking of the world’s top 1,000 universities sees relatively little movement at the very top. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Stanford University and Harvard University are an unchanged top three, while the University of Oxford continues to be the best university in the UK.

Universities are ranked based on six different parameters, Academic Reputation (40%), Employer Reputation (10%), Faculty/Student Ratio (20%), Citations per faculty (20%), International faculty ratio and International student ratio (5% each).

QS World University Rankings 2020