QS INDIAN UNIVERSITY RANKINGS

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• Rankings:
  • The Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) dominate the list, with seven IITs figuring in the top ten rankings.
    
    
  • Like last year, IIT-Bombay leads followed by the Indian Institute of Science (IISc).
    
    
  • IIT-Delhi now stands third in the ranking. Delhi University, University of Hyderabad and the Indian Institute of Science are the only other non-IIT institutions in the top ten.
    
    
  
  
  
• Methodology: The methodology used eight indicators – with indicator of “Academic reputation” having the highest weight – to determine the institutions’ rankings. These were:
  • academic reputation (weight of 30%),
    
    
  • employer reputation (20%),
    
    
  • faculty-student ratio (20%),
    
    
  • proportion of staff with a 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%).