12.04.2024
QS World University Rankings
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Sixty-nine Indian universities made it to the rankings with 424 entries in the 2024 QS World University Rankings by Subject.
About QS World University Rankings:
Highlights of the 2024 Rankings:
○Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has been ranked as the 1 university in the world by QS World University Rankings for 12 straight years.
○Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB) is the top ranked Indian institution, being ranked at 149.
○A total of 69 Indian universities with 424 entries have made it to the QS World University Rankings by subject, marking a 19.4% rise from the previous year's 355 entries achieved by 66 universities.
○India is the second most represented country in Asia for the number of ranked universities (69), after mainland China with 101.
○India holds the fourth position in the total number of ranked entries (454), after China (1,041), Japan (510) and South Korea (499).
○Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) leads among Indian institutions, securing the 20th position globally for development studies.
○In total, 12 Indian Higher Education Institutes(HEIs) feature in the top 100, and 69 HEIs from India are ranked in 44 out of 55 subjects.
○India has shown significant progress, with a 20 percent improvement in the Citations per Paper indicator, reflecting a strong research capability.
○In terms of volume, India is now the world's fourth-largest producer of research, generating 1.3 million academic papers in this period, trailing only behind China, the United States and the United Kingdom.
○However, the country faces challenges in securing citations in premier global journals, with only 15% of its research cited in these publications between 2017 and 2021.
Source: Indian Express