IIT Bombay is India’s top university, says 2021 global ranking

The Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, is India’s highest ranked college amongst prime 200 world universities, with Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, and IIT Delhi additionally figuring within the 200-bracket, in response to the QS World University Rankings.

The rankings for 2021 are based mostly on six indicators: tutorial status, employer status, citations per school, school/pupil ratio, worldwide school ratio and worldwide pupil ratio, compilers of the rankings stated.

IIT Bombay is ranked 172nd, whereas IISc is 185th and IIT Delhi 193rd. Overall, 21 Indian greater training establishments determine within the prime 1000. India’s finest analysis college is IISc, which obtained an ideal 100/100 on the ‘citations per faculty’ indicator.

Other IITs within the prime 500 are: Madras (275), Kharagpur (314), Kanpur (350), Roorkee (383) and Guwahati (470).

The compilers stated that as a bunch, Indian greater training performs most strongly in measure of analysis high quality, although its universities are failing to extend tutorial standing, educating capability, and ranges of internationalisation on the identical fee as world opponents.

Ben Sowter of QS stated: “Though India’s universities have dropped as a group this year, this is frequently because of other universities across the world making increasingly intense efforts to enhance their educational offerings”.

“To regain lost ground, Indian higher education must find ways of increasing teaching capacity, and of attracting more talented students and faculty across the world to study in India. There is plenty of potential, and there are pockets of excellence, within the Indian system,” he added.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology retains its place because the world’s finest college, whereas the highest three establishments stay American: MIT is adopted by Stanford University (2nd) and Harvard University (third).