QS Asia Rankings: IIT Bombay At 33rd Spot, India Doubles Its Presence While China Continues to Dominate Top Ten

The Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT-Bombay) has topped the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) Asia University Rankings from India followed by IIT Delhi and IIT Madras, reports The Indian Express.

Universities are assessed on academic reputation, employer reputation, student-faculty ratio, international faculty and students, staff with PhD, papers per faculty and citations per paper, among other parameters for QS rankings.

According to a QS release, there are 75 universities from India in the top 500 Asia list. Eight Indian universities have featured among the top 100 in the list of Asia’s top 50 universities. However, no Indian University managed to break into the top 10.

India as seen significant improvement over its last performance. India has doubled its presence in the QS rankings.

Ben Sowter, research director at QS, lauded India in his statement,“With forty new universities ranked and fourteen moving up the table, India is making good progresses in this analysis…. Since India has to cater principally for its rapidly growing student population, it has domestic priorities which results in it lagging behind in the international faculty and students’ indicators. Its leading institutions are well-liked by employers and respected by academics internationally: nine Indian universities place among the top-100 for these two indicators.”

IIT Bombay jumped up one spot, from 34th to 33rd this year. IIT-Delhi stands at 40, IIT-Madras at 48, Indian Institute of Science at 50, IIT-Kharagpur at 53 and IIT-Kanpur stood at 61.

Delhi University and IIT-Roorkee are other institutes among the top 100.

National University of Singapore is Asia’s best university followed by University of Hong Kong, Nanyang Technological University, Tsinghua University and Peking University.