The Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, is the world’s top research university according to the citations per faculty indicator, whereas the Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, is ranked 41st in the league, as per to the prized QS World University Rankings announced on Wednesday.
According to citations per faculty (CPF) metric in analysis by London-based Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) has got a perfect score of 100 out of 100
In the top 200 universities of the world list, three Indian institutions have featured in the overall rankings
As per the 18th edition of the rankings, the India Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay, is India’s top ranked institution for the fourth year straight at the QS World University Rankings 2022.It has however, fallen four places to 177 from its 2021 rank of 172.
IIT, Delhi, has become India’s second-best university, increasing from the 193rd rank to 185th since past year. It has done so by engulfing the IISc which acquired the 186th rank, a score just below last year’s rank, as per the rankings.
IIT, Madras, has climbed up 20 places and currently ranks joint-255th, which is its highest position since the year 2017. IIT-Kharagpur is ranked at 280, while IIT, Guwahati, in the joint-395th rank has been admitted in the global top-400 for the first time.
While the Jawaharlal Nehru University has debuted in the QS World University Rankings and is placed in the 561-570 band, IIT Hyderabad, in the 591-600 rank band, savours its first year ever in the top 600.
Indian universities have also made progress in their research impact, comparative to global competitors. According to the rankings, seventeen of India’s 35 universities have seen an increase in their CPF score, against only 12 drops in CPF.
However, Indian universities strive continuously in QS’s measure of institutional teaching capacity. Twenty-three of India’s 35 universities have endured fall in QS’s faculty/student ratio indicator, with only six recording progressions. Therefore, no Indian university ranks among the top 250 list in the faculty/student ratio category.
Indian universities have made constant improvement in QSs academic reputation metric with 20 of India’s 35 entrants developing their scores, while only nine have suffered declines in their rank.
The QS World University Rankings, institutions and universities were judged on six indicators, such as academic reputation, employer reputation, citations per faculty, faculty/student ratio, international faculty ratio and international student ratio.
Hence this year, rankings listed the world’s top 1,300 universities, more than 145 in the last year’s edition, can be found in 97 locations.
Of 13,000 institutions, 6,415 were qualified for the survey analysis, and 1,705 were evaluated for the final table. The results counted for the distribution and performance of 14.7 million academic papers published between 2015 and 2019, and the 96 million citations obtained by those papers.
They also accounted for the expert opinions of almost 1,30,000 academic faculty and almost 75,000 employers.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is the world’s number-one achiveing a record-extending for the 10th consecutive year. For the first time, the University of Oxford has risen to second since 2006, while the Stanford University and the University of Cambridge share the third spot.
