The Indian Institute of Expertise (IIT), Bombay, emerged as India’s highest-ranked instructional institute, confirmed the QS World Rankings 2024 launched on Wednesday. Globally, it was ranked 149th and was the one such Indian institute within the high 150. Nonetheless, it’s the highest rank the institute has ever attained.
IIT Bombay confirmed an enchancment from final yr’s QS world rankings when it took the 172nd spot.
It was adopted by IIT Delhi (ranked 197th globally), slipping from 174th final yr. These have been the one two institutes within the high 200 on the listing.
On the third spot was the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, ranked 225th globally. It slipped sharply from a hundred and fifty fifth place final yr.
The rankings have been primarily based on 9 indicators, together with citations per college, employment outcomes, employer repute, tutorial repute, faculty-student ratio, sustainability, worldwide analysis community, worldwide college ratio and worldwide scholar ratio.
Globally, the Massachusetts Institute of Expertise (MIT) and the College of Cambridge retained the highest two spots. They have been adopted by the College of Oxford, which rose one rank.
Curiously, the US and the UK (UK) had 4 institutes, every within the high 10 rankings. Switzerland’s ETH Zurich and Singapore’s Nationwide College of Singapore have been the opposite two institutes on the seventh and eighth spots, respectively.
NUS has joined the highest 10 rankings for the primary time.
In India, solely six institutes featured within the high 300 rankings. These included IIT Kharagpur (271), IIT Kanpur (278) and IIT Madras (285).
There have been 11 Indian institutes within the high 500. Other than those talked about above, the listing included IIT Guwahati (364), IIT Roorkee (369), College of Delhi (407), Anna College (427) and IIT Indore (454).
The rankings additional highlighted that the Indian increased training system was the seventh most represented globally, with 45 universities on the listing. It ranked third in Asia, after China (71) and Japan (52).
(SourceL QS WUR 2024)