41 Universities from India in 2023 QS World Rankings List

INTERNATIONAL DESK: Forty-one Indian universities – up from 35 last year – have made it to the QS World University Rankings 2023, with seven institutes making their debut in this year’s table.

The Indian Institute of Science (155th globally) Bengaluru has moved up 31 places since last year to secure the first spot among the Indian institutes, followed by IIT Bombay and IIT Delhi, making up the trio in the top 200.

India has also come out strongly on the research front, with IISc emerging number one globally in the ‘citations per faculty’ (CpF) indicator, which higher education analyst Quacquarelli Symonds uses to evaluate the impact of research produced by universities.

According to the CpF indicator, when universities are adjusted for faculty size, IISc Bengaluru is the world’s top research university, achieving a perfect score of 100/100 for this metric.

IIT Guwahati (37th for CpF), IIT Roorkee (47th for CpF) and the new entry University of Madras (48th for CpF) are also global top-50 research institutions.

“This edition of the rankings reflects the excellent work that several Indian universities are doing to improve their research footprint, with positive consequences for their reputation on the global stage,” said Ben Sowter, senior vice president at QS. “Conversely, our dataset also suggests that the Indian higher education sector still struggles to provide adequate teaching capacity. Further expansion of provision – both within universities and across the sector as a whole – will be necessary if India is to continue reaching new heights.”

Of the 41 Indian institutes featured, 12 improved their score over last year, 12 remained stable, 10 declined, and seven are new entries.

All the featured Indian Institutes of Technology improved their standing. IIT Bombay (172nd) moved up five places from last year while IIT Delhi (174th) gained 11 places. Others in the top 300 include IIT Madras (250th), IIT Kanpur (264th), and IIT Kharagpur (270th).

Five of the declared Public Institutions of Eminence attained a higher rank than in the previous edition – IISc, IITB, IITD, IITM, and IIT-Kgp – while two – University of Delhi and University of Hyderabad – declined, and one, IIT-Banaras Hindu University, held on to its ranking.

Two of the declared Private Institutions of Eminence maintained the same rank as last year – namely, Manipal Academy of Higher Education and Birla Institute of Technology and Science – while OP Jindal Global University improved its ranking to enter the 651-700 band.

Chandigarh University (801-1,000) is the youngest of the new entries, having been established less than ten years ago.

This year’s QS World University Rankings is the largest ever, with 1,418 institutions across one hundred locations, up from 1,300 last year. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is at world number one for the eleventh consecutive year. University of Cambridge has risen to the second place, while Stanford University remains in the third position. (The Economic Times)