QS INDIA UNIVERSITY RANKINGS

Oct. 16, 2018

QS Quacquarelli Symonds, the global higher education think tank responsible for the world's most-consulted world university rankings, released their first standalone ranking of India's higher education institutions.

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Objective: The inaugural edition of the QS India University Rankings, is designed to offer an independent analysis of the performance of Indian institutions.
Coverage: The rankings include Public Universities, Private Universities and H.E. Institutions or Deemed Universities. Single faculty specialist institutions or single level institutions (e.g. teaching principally at postgraduate level) are not included.
Rankings: IIT Bombay is named India's leading institution. IITs take up seven of the top-10 places. IISc Bangalore ranks second and IIT-Madras third.
Methodology: Institutions have been scored on academic reputation (30 %), employer reputation (20 %), faculty-student ratio (20 %), proportion of staff with PhD (10 %), papers per faculty from Scopus database (10 %), citations per paper from Scopus database (5 %), proportion of international students (2.5 %) and proportion of international faculty (2.5 %).